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February 08, 2005

Breaking the profanity barrier

At the conference I'm at, the shit barrier was broken at 1:30. That's the moment the word "shit" was first used by one of the speakers.

I have only recently begun to collect data on this phenomenon, and look forward to producing many attractive line graphs.

Posted by D. Weinberger at February 8, 2005 06:46 PM


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Then, shouldn't this have been the first of your posts that you "shit"-tagged ?

Posted by: Jon Husband | February 8, 2005 09:18 PM


I have a theory, notice that as soon as you used the word "shit" in your post, Jon immediatly called back another "shit". And by the end of this sentence, I will have said "shit" three times. So then, here is my forumla... shit I forgot my high school algebra. Oh well, that last "shit" proved my forumla wrong. Regardless, I'm guessing that there will be some sort of exponential increase.

Posted by: Nick LEwis | February 9, 2005 01:06 AM


Well, shit, I just had to Google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=shit

First result is rather amusing:

http://www.internetisshit.org/index.html

Posted by: John Crapper, MD | February 9, 2005 12:00 PM


I have started noticing this phenomenon in meetings at work as well. I was particlarly proud of myself for saying "fucked up" twice on a conference call yesterday. ;-)

Posted by: Ruby Sinreich | February 9, 2005 07:46 PM


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