I did a couple of Blazing Saddles posts recently, using clips from the movie to try to make some funneh. It’s easier to make funneh when it’s someone else’s funneh and all you have to do it rearrange it and put your name on it.
Anyway, the second video had more naughty language in it than the first video. In fact, the first video didn’t have any naughty language in it. Unless you count farts. Well, there was one word that throws a whole bunch of people into hissy fits, but I clipped it on the version of the video I posted here. I probably should have just edited that whole old lady response out entirely.
Anyway, that second clip? Lots of naughty words. Most of the clips that went along with the points about Democrats I was making included naughty language: the choir singing, the townsfolk calling BS, and the list of bad people. Perhaps I shouldn’t have made that video. But, I did. And I posted it here.
The point of all this? Don’t take those two recent videos as the okay to vary from the PG-13 nature of this Website. Harvey reminds you of this every time he does a lolbama or a lolterizt post and asks for submissions.
If those videos have made you think it’s okay to push the envelope, then you missed my point. I just want to make sure we don’t go overboard. After all, one day, Little Princess Buttercup with get on the internets and read these posts. You don’t want to have to explain yourself, do you?
I’m already working on my excuses.
Darn. I had a perfect composition of vile filth ready to post. I guess I can simply write it all on a few signs and sell them to the local Occupy crowd. (If you can call three people a crowd)
As to the PG-13 policy all I have to say is (censored) (censored) you and the (censored) (censored) horse you (censored) rode in on.
How dumb do you need to be to realize that the point of Blazing Saddles is to parody dumb a** racists (is there any other kind?). Mel Brooks’ credentials in that area are solid, unlike the thinly veiled — or sometimes not veiled — racism of Jesse Jackson, Barack Obama, et al.
CAIN! has already been called a house n***** by a Democratic official. Which liberals (none) came to Condi Rice’s side when she was called the same and when the Washington Post published a cartoon that portrayed her — with exaggerated facial features — as a porch n*****?
This ain’t parody, boys and girls.
Hey, go easy on yourself, Basil — our icky vulgarity was not enabled AT ALL by your video. Our fall from grace just kinda happens sometimes out of lazy articulation or out of our pursuit of funniness (just look at all the ns in there). Lazy accounts for about 80% and funny accounts for about 9%. So, it’s not your fault, mkay, schnookems?
For the mathematically inclined, I’ll mention that the remaining 10% is also not your fault, but is rather grounded in the belief that people give too much weight and power to offensive words. That 10% is brave people trying to bring down the hypersensitivity in our society that is closely tied to the whole nanny state concept. Brave people like Mel Brooks. Not brave people like me, though — Jesse Jackson scares the bejesus out of me; I don’t want to be called a racist.
For those keeping track, I’ll add that the remaining 1% actually are vulgar, racist, genderist pigs who we should just ban from our homes or ignore until they change their ways. Unfortunately, they blend in with the rest.
“Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! … Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” – Barry Goldwater
Upon a second read of my post, perhaps I should make it clearer that I was referring to the Jesse Jacksons of this country with regard to “how dumb do you need to be.”
Friendly crossfire I’d guess, but for what it’s worth, I think it’s clear that you were insulting Jackson, Burma. Still, it’s nice of you to spell it out! Welcome to the brave 10%, ‘racist’! 🙂
Sorry, but I can’t find any naughty language in the videos. Perhaps I have been hardened after listening to too many offensive liberals in the media…
Ima gonna hafta vote with 7. Went West. I saw no “naughty language” .
As far as shielding Little Princess Buttercup from these posts, I think I would rather she know her enemy and how to deal but that not my call.
Don’t worry about it, you (CENSORED) (CENSORED) (CENSORED)-ing with a live fish, (CENSORED) (CENSORED) (CENSORED) flesh-eating zombies (CENSORED) happy.
In all seriousness, don’t worry about it. What’s the worst that could hap- Oh wait, DON’T TAUNT MURPHY. IF YOU DO, BAD THINGS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU AND ALL THOSE AROUND YOU.
Obama, Michelle O, Reid, Pelosi, Soros, Carney, Huey Long, William O Douglas, Elijah Mohammed …
Cheers
You did it, alright, Basil. I’m sure of it.
Hey! We have exactly one year until the 2012 election!!
Set your clocks back an hour and start a countdown timer to the election of CAIN / GINGRICH!!
As George Carlin once explained, bad language is a matter of context. You can prick your finger but not the other way around.
Just chalk it up as a “Wardrobe Malfunction” works for all sorts of things
You are a scholar and a gentleman, Basil.
“But Orcs and Trolls spoke as they would, without love of words or things; and their language was actually more degraded and filthy than I have shown it. I do not suppose that any will wish for a closer rendering, though models are easy to find. Much the same sort of talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, LOTR, Return of the King, Appendix F. (way in the back) 😉