# A Suggestion concerning bleeping obscenities on broadcast  shows.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-concerning-bleeping-obscenities-on-broadcast-shows/239408>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 11, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-concerning-bleeping-obscenities-on-broadcast-shows/239408 "2004-04-11T02:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-concerning-bleeping-obscenities-on-broadcast-shows/239408/1 "2004-04-11T02:22:17Z")

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Why not, when someone says the word “fuck” during a broadcast instead of bleeping it have an announcer intone “FCC”.

For example:

Some out of work actor might say, “Yeah I don’t care what they said, I still didn’t get the fucking part.”

Currently, as broadcast we’d hear, “Yeah I don’t care what they said, I still didn’t get the f.bleep.ng part.”

My way we would hear, “Yeah I don’t care what they said, I still didn’t get the  
F.C.C.ng part.”

Any other ideas on this? Other officious substitutes for the other 7 words you aren’t supposed to say?

Mods, I wasn’t sure if this belonged in Cafe Society or IMHO, so I thought I’d start it in IMHO. Feel free to move it. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-concerning-bleeping-obscenities-on-broadcast-shows/239408/2 "2004-04-11T02:33:02Z")

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They could sell the “bleep” airtime as ad space, by putting in a product name over the naughty words.

“I didn’t get the **Pepsi** part!”

“Hit the floor, mother- **Doritos**!”  
And when blue dots are necessary to block out nipples and other dirty body parts, use logos instead!!

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**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-concerning-bleeping-obscenities-on-broadcast-shows/239408/3 "2004-04-11T02:43:09Z")

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> [@roxx222](#):
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> They could sell the “bleep” airtime as ad space, by putting in a product name over the naughty words.

I like it! To quote Bono, "That’s “Bush/Cheney 04"ing brilliant.” 😃

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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-suggestion-concerning-bleeping-obscenities-on-broadcast-shows/239408/4 "2004-04-12T00:40:11Z")

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[http://store.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,133773,00.html](http://store.artistdirect.com/store/artist/album/0,,133773,00.html)

Listen to #37. (It’s messed up somehow, so you should actually click on #39)