# I've been censored **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369 "2007-05-01T20:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Jelymag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jelymag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jelymag)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/1 "2007-05-01T20:36:00Z")
I’ve just finished the second annual rocket launch last week with some of my students (science geeks). They had some input on the rockets, helped each other build them and finally launched them. Great fun. Lost some in the trees, scared some track athletes, had a few near misses with teachers’ cars… Yes, fun for all. But not why I’m posting… We had made cute little fliers advertising the event for other students, and posted them in the hallways. The next day I was told they must be removed because they contained the words “boom,” “bang,” and “explosive.” :rolleyes: Something to the effect of “Join us for an explosive time,” and “Rockets go boom;” very benign IMHO. They had little cartoon pictures of rockets with smiley faces on them. And I posted all of them myself after they were made, so I know none of them contained anything “extra.” Apparently, from what I have heard, someone thought it was somehow akin to a bomb threat… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/2 "2007-05-01T20:54:57Z")
well, the “bang” part could have been construed as a porn threat. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/3 "2007-05-01T20:56:13Z")
Wait a minute, let me get this straight. You _forced_ little _children_ to make _devices_ which are powered by _chemical explosives?!?!!?!?_ LOCK HIM UP AT ONCE. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/4 "2007-05-02T15:14:55Z")
I suppose all those volcanoes everyone made with baking soda and vinegar were dangerous terrorist training methods… _not enough :rolleyes: in the world_ ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/5 "2007-05-02T15:21:27Z")
[QUOTE=friedo] Wait a minute, let me get this straight. You _forced_ little _children_ to make _devices_ which are powered by _chemical explosives?!?!!?!?_ LOCK HIM UP AT ONCE. [/QUOTE] Nope, he’s going to get off on a technicality. Rockets don’t explode, they deflagrate. 😉 They’ve implemented a lot of safety programs at work lately. Sometimes, I think if a person’s going to cut off both their thumbs, maybe they shouldn’t have any thumbs. It’s so rediculous how administration over reacts sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/6 "2007-05-02T15:45:17Z")
Oh dear. Common sense fall down go onomatopoeia for sound of object detonating loudly. Wait, is “detonating” non-threatening these days? Maybe that should be changed to “reacting destructively to a rapid cascading chemical reaction.” Wait, that’s still too worrisome. Change “destructively” to “in a structurally reductive manner.” There. That’s better. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/7 "2007-05-02T16:22:30Z")
How about “Extreme Enforced Entropy Exhibition”? You can make a flyer with a little stick figure running away from a rocket screaming, “EEEE!” ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/8 "2007-05-02T18:59:57Z")
Were these fireworks? Most of the rockets I’ve encountered go _whoooosh_, _ssssssst_, or _wheeeeeeeeee_. I really do not encounter hobby rockets that go bang. Next year, use the appropriate sounds to attract your audience without scaring (or scarring) the overprotective administrators. ---
**Author:** ![mks57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@mks57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mks57)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/9 "2007-05-02T21:07:54Z")
While watching a television show on the Tripoli Rocket Association, which is a group of people who launch large rockets, I noticed that the program had been rated “TV-MA”. Someone decided that a bunch of geeks launching rockets, and doing it very safely, was the equivalent of pornography. What a screwed up society we live in. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/10 "2007-05-02T21:46:37Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] Nope, he’s going to get off on a technicality. Rockets don’t explode, they deflagrate. 😉 … [/QUOTE] Rockets don’t explode? Tell that to NASA. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/11 "2007-05-03T01:38:42Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] chemical reaction [/QUOTE] Better rephrase that. I think they’re making bombs out of chemicals these days. ---
**Author:** ![sasdaisy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@sasdaisy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sasdaisy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/12 "2007-05-03T02:57:41Z")
From one science geek to another: can I please be in your class? 🙂 So far, I’ve never been censored, but then again, I tend to fly under the radar when it comes to blowing things up in the classroom (i.e.: I don’t advertise and I bribe the custodian with coffee and cookies). I have had the odd neighbouring teacher come in after one such explosion and ask " what exactly are you doing here?" In retrospect, I guess he wasn’t **that** odd. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/13 "2007-05-03T03:03:34Z")
[QUOTE=drewbert] Better rephrase that. I think they’re making bombs out of chemicals these days. [/QUOTE] Right. And all that chemical warfare stuff. Okay, so it’s “Common sense fall down go nomatopoeia for sound of object reacting in a structurally reductive manner to a rapid cascading reaction of certain common elements found on the periodic table loudly.” Let’s hope that passes the censors. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/14 "2007-05-03T03:09:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Right. And all that chemical warfare stuff. Okay, so it’s “Common sense fall down go nomatopoeia for sound of object reacting in a structurally reductive manner to a rapid cascading reaction of certain common elements found on the periodic table **loudly**.” Let’s hope that passes the censors. [/QUOTE] sounds kinda racist to me ---
**Author:** ![TheTyrant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thetyrant/32/19111_2.png) [@TheTyrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTyrant)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/15 "2007-05-03T03:17:02Z")
You gotta understand that we are living in trying times here in America right now, okay? We can’t have you rocketeers and your ilk scaring good American folks with all sorts of dangerous flying projectiles and stuff, you know? Now, I concede that your hobby might be RELATIVELY harmless, but you gotta be careful with words like BOOM and BANG. And also Lite-Brites you leave on the street. Think about it. (I miss model rocketry. It’s been a long, long time since I built or launched a rocket.) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/16 "2007-05-03T03:35:38Z")
Remember after September 11th all the choruses of “We willl not let this change us, we are stronger than that!” It seems to me that _everything_ has changed. For the worse. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/17 "2007-05-03T03:37:27Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] sounds kinda racist to me [/QUOTE] Are the rockets [black?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418250) ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/18 "2007-05-03T03:45:15Z")
[QUOTE=Mindfield] Are the rockets [black?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=418250) [/QUOTE] Well, teens are likely to paint their rockets black. Especially the goth ones. ---
**Author:** ![TheTyrant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thetyrant/32/19111_2.png) [@TheTyrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTyrant)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-been-censored/402369/19 "2007-05-03T04:31:25Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] Well, teens are likely to paint their rockets black. Especially the goth ones. [/QUOTE] I knew it was the heavy metal music. I bet they played video games too.