Sunday, January 18, 2004

Now for something completely different:

Happy penis song doesn't annoy Canadian regulator

OTTAWA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A song lauding the joys of an "enormous penis" is not obscene because the object of the lyric's affection isn't necessarily sexual, a Canadian regulator ruled on Friday.

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council was reacting to a complaint from a Calgary radio listener to a joke song that declared: "I've got the cure for all of my blues/I take a look at my enormous penis/And my troubles start a-meltin' away."

The listener's complaint that the song was obscene fell flat before the council's members, who said the item did not break its code of ethics.

"The discussion of penis size is not in and of itself sufficiently unequivocally a sexual matter that it can be said to be in breach of the code," the council said.

Calgary's CJAY-FM replied to the complaint by saying most of its core audience -- men from 18 to 49 -- enjoyed such items as "Enormous Penis" by Da Vinci's Notebook, which also features the line: "I gotta sing and I dance/When I glance in my pants." Link


This is a political issue. It illustrates the difference(vas deferens?) between the cool Canadians and the morally rigid,(sorry) uptight Americans. America has lost its way. We are now a country of non-thinking, jingoistic, socially rigid captives of the 'religious right,' and their servants currently occupying the White House.

I've no issue with religion, as long as public funds do not go to religious organizations. If someone can show me that Christianity is a 'reasonable' belief system, I'll devour my keyboard.

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