Yippee Ki-Yay: M-F, Other Dirty Words Still Not Ready For Prime-Time


Forty-six years after comedian George Carlin indelibly etched “seven dirty words” as a line in the sand for what is not permissible to say on TV, a majority of American adults feel most of them still are inappropriate to utter, even on a cable TV comedy show.

The survey, conducted …


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