May 7th, 2004 -- by Bacchus
Kid Views Oprah, Head Explodes
This is an actual email sent to the FCC and procured by The Smoking Gun via a Freedom of Information Act Request:
The Oprah Show described with graphic detail a sexual term known as “tossing salad.” It was so offensive that my child’s head literally exploded. Please ban free speech so this never happens again.
Ouch. “Literally”? “You keep using that word….“
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BWHAHAH!
Oh, my. Some people sure do deserve to be mocked, don’t they?
Errr – will someone please explain just what ‘tossing salad’ means?
Is it something that is so disgusting that I would really enjoy it, I wonder?
Should I be trying to persuade someone to do it to me or should I be doing it to someone else?
Guess I don’t know what I’m missing by not watching the big O.
OK I just found out – oral anal sex!Nice!
It is worth looking at ‘The Smoking Gun’ to see the email which Bacchus mentions and then go to the bottom of the page to get links to all the other emails on the same topic – Funny stuff!
My understanding is that those emails were strongly encouraged by Stern and the like. And so, while certainly amusing reading, it’s highly unlikely that they reflect the author’s thoughts on the obscenity of Oprah’s show, or their understanding of English usage.
Read the whole set of emails. I was laughing until there were tears in my eyes.
JR is right, they are downright funny as heck!
Now I am going to wait for the Dr. Phil emails…he should be banned!
Hey, why don’t we all email the FCC and have them go after the doctor?
Oh, the tossed salad bit?
Is anyone really offended?
Has anyone actually done it?
thanks eros, now i have to watch the princess bride!! :)
I want to ‘literally’ smack every fool who uses this word wrong. Especially when used by so-called journalists who should really know better. The rot goes deep in the field of journalism, I’m afraid, and not just in terms of honesty, heh.
Recent literal funnies from my world:
“Books were literally flying off the shelves.”
“He literally pierced me with his eyes.”
“My ass was literally on fire.”
I keep telling people Baccus, but they aren’t listening. The are VIRTUALLY plugging their ears and singing to keep out the logic and reason they don’t want to hear.
Best Blessings. . .
E is right regarding the number of emails written by Stern fans and others. Presumably it was an acronym-loving Savage Love reader who signed his/her letter Citizens for Unclean Network Trash.
I loved that first letter where the complainant demanded that the FCC set a “stern” example. Somehow I doubt if they even got the joke…
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