i am not a prude, and i abhore censorship.

Anyone who’s read my posts for any length of time knows I do not spare any expressive obscenity if it helps to get my point across. But my audience is self-selecting, and I doubt there are any elementary school kids reading this.

And, the whole Janet Jackson boob imbroglio of a few years ago was ridiculous. Whatever the audience saw, it was nothing new to anyone - most of us have two of them, whatever they might look like.

But even I, foul-mouthed blogger though I am, think NBC is crossing the line with this 30 Rock game:

marry boff or kill

Why would you advertise a game in the 9:00 timeslot called “Marry, Boff or Kill”? If you want to put it up on the website for fans of the show to play, no problem. If you want to advertise it after 10pm, again, no problem. But making a full-screen pitch for it in the middle of prime time? Evidently NBC has oversold advertising time between now and New Years, so it’s not to fill up unsold ad space. And we’re past the November sweeps. So what’s the motivation?

Again, I’m not a prude. I have no problem explaining marriage, sex or violence to my 9-year-old in the proper context. And I might even get the joke if it was used as a promo during Saturday Night Live or The Tonight Show. But to have marriage, sex and violence equated via a game during prime time is nauseating.

And as for the game itself:

marry boff or kill symbols

I get the gun and the hearts, but will someone please tell me why the symbol for “Boff” is a dog bone? Only one explanation comes readily to mind, and I can’t bring myself to accept it.

I watch so little t.v. that maybe this sort of thing has been going on for years and I never watched at the right time to catch it. Am I just way behind the curve?

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You are ahead of the curve. Not watching TV prevents the brainwashing and dumbing down that makes much of this stuff palatable to those that do.

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1. Above comment written by bushtool on December 12th, 2007 at 4:05 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).
Right after the FCC got involved over Janet’s nipple, I e-mailed the FCC, and asked a very simple question. How hard is it to explain what a nipple is to your 6 year old daughter. We all have them, so do animals.

That is/was no problem. Then came my question: How do you explain to your 6 year old what a 4 hour erection is? You know all the ads on TV about Viagra, other drugs doing the same. Well, guess what, The FCC would not/ could not answer my question.

Well, since the drug company’s political slush fund goes to the elected/appointed critters, why would one be surprised.

Besides the one in office already, we now have other GOP critters saying they have also spoken/talked to GOD, and they also want to be President. What makes a Mormon, Southern Baptist the only religion? Scarey, isn’t it?

What ever happen to common decency? A company wants to advertise their products, anything dealing with sexual problems should be aired late in the evening. And like Slim, I’m not a prude, I still like the idea of “free sex” that was around in the 60’s.

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2. Above comment written by Allen on December 12th, 2007 at 7:38 pm (replies, if any, are attributed separately above).

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