Tonight while I was driving over, Uncle Nasty and his formerly penis-loving producer Jen Jen were on the radio. I say "formerly penis-loving producer" because apparently, according to a new FCC edict, they're not supposed to say the word "penis" on the air anymore.

Since penis isn't even one of the seven sacred words, this strikes me as fairly odd, but who's to tell what goes through the minds of these censors?

So they're going to have to come up with a new slogan for the show to use in promos and stuff. "Uncle Nasty and his dick-loving producer Jen Jen?" It just doesn't have the same ring. "Uncle Nasty and his cock-loving producer?" Hah, that one was already on the forbidden list. Maybe there's another synonym that can be found if we think about it long enough.

Essentially, it boils down to this: Either they are going to have to think up a new slogan which has a completely different meaning than what was originally being said, thus categorically making it outright censorship of speech, or some other way is going to have to be found to convey the same meaning without using the same words.

This is the kind of thing that causes the English language to get screwed up. (Linknoid did a rant about this subject a while back about on Yanthor.net, which I won't link to because it's behind a login, and I can't find it anymore anyway.)

If the word "penis" is no longer allowed speech, then in order to convey the same meaning without actually saying it, another word or phrase must be found. So, it's time to start preparing for the next wave of slang words to start appearing, which can be used in substitution so as to evade the tyranny of the long arm of the FCC.

When will they ever catch on to the notion that censorship simply doesn't work?