Piggysnoot

Profanity. Cursing. Expletives. We all know what I’m talking about here, right?! Yesterday’s post contained a certain expletive…and after I posted it I found that the expletive was not printed on my screen…it was in fact four pound signs. At first I thought this was because of the Net Nanny internet filter we use at work…but no…upon checking at home at lunch time I discovered that on my home computer the result was the same. I asked Larry, my resident blog-guy, if he had set a bad word blocker on my posts…which he apparently didn’t do on purpose…but it is some kind of default for Movable Type. Well isn’t that lovely? I try, most-times, to censor my language a little. This is because a) you never know where someone will be when reading…for example in the library or near their children, and b) my grandmother reads this site. Okay, okay, my grandmother knows I use curse words…but you just never know when or where someone will be when checking in on your blog…so for the most part I don’t drop a lot of f-bombs in my posts. There are times, however, that a good f-bomb or s-bomb is all that will work to really tell the story. Sometimes it’s the best word for the job…like in yesterday’s post…

Imagine my irritation that I, the blog owner, cannot get the damn thing to post the word I want. I wanted it to say s.h.i.t not pound pound pound pound. If I wanted pound pound pound pound I happen to know that the shift of the number 3 will give me the pound sign…and I would’ve censored myself…but I didn’t…I wanted the potty mouth word. The other thing that’s kinda confusing is what exactly the Movable Type people deem to be a curse word. I’ve posted damn before. And #######. And I thought I had posted son-of-a-bitch…but now I’m not so sure…I guess I’ll have to check when I upload this post. EDITED: I guess I didn’t ever put a.s.s.h.o.l.e before…they apparently do find that to be a curse word…didn’t know until I came back to check…

So, in the future I will not be posting using the words *&^%*&$%#@$%*, *$%%#, ####, @@@@, or &^*%^. Okay, that’s not true. If it’s necessary to the story I will…I’ll just have to fix that damn piece of s.h.i.t filter first!