No #&@% cussing! Calif. town a profanity-free zone
I know there are a lot of Baptists like me who may still struggle with this, but I thought if regular folks, some of which don’t even go to church can do this, then why can’t we?
Coincidentally, I’ll be in South Pasadena in just a couple of weeks…
Associated Press
Published on: 03/07/08 South Pasadena, Calif. — What the $%#? This community on the edge of Los Angeles has become a cuss-free zone.
So if you’re headed to South Pasadena this week, be sure to turn down the volume on that Snoop Dogg CD, and, if the little old lady from Pasadena cuts you off in traffic, don’t even think about flipping her the bird.
you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.
you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.”That’s one of the purposes of this,” Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of the proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week, passed by the City Council. “It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.”
The proclamation will be in effect for the first week of every March.
South Pasadena isn’t the first to try to rein in potty mouths. What’s different about the latest push to stop saying in public the words that Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton recently discovered we still can’t say on television is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.
“My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them,” said McKay Hatch, who founded South Pasadena High School’s No Cussing Club in June.
you could be shamed into better behavior by the unsettling glares of residents who take their reputation for civility seriously.
“That’s one of the purposes of this,” Mayor Michael Cacciotti said of the proclamation designating the first week of March as No Cussing Week, passed by the City Council. “It provides us a reminder to be more civil, to elevate the level of discourse.”
The proclamation will be in effect for the first week of every March.
South Pasadena isn’t the first to try to rein in potty mouths. What’s different about the latest push to stop saying in public the words that Jane Fonda and Diane Keaton recently discovered we still can’t say on television is that it was proposed by a 14-year-old boy.
“My mom and dad always taught me good morals, good values, and not cussing was one of them,” said McKay Hatch, who founded South Pasadena High School’s No Cussing Club in June.
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