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...classified by the FCC as "strong" since it was used as a verb - as opposed to Bono?s euphoric Golden Globe exclamation last year , "It?s f___ing brilliant," which is considered OK because, well, he was just saying it for emphasis and not talking about an act of, um, love. But my outburst was never supposed to make it on the air. It was not part of a lewd series.? The FCC never even contacted the station to complain. KCRW called my firing a "preemptive distancing." Although they later offered me my job back, and even promised a better...
...fact that you plan field-trips there with your 25 closest friends may have something to do with it. If your studying (read: gossiping) session can’t live up to its creative potential elsewhere, be sure to use a small voice when discussing what a small, um, “pen” that guy at the next table has—otherwise, he’ll probably hear...
...useless sculptures out of head-nod functionalism; as Savath & Savalas, his explorations turn “real” music into dense head music. Given the studio treatment, mournful songs like “Te Quiero Pero Por Otro Lado…” and “Um Girassol de Cor de Seu Cabelo” become confused and hazy, blurred beneath raindrops...
...terror from unsuspecting FM compers when I attempt to insert apparently nonsensical Aussie idioms into their stories, weary of the mirth which greets my distinctive idiom during editors’ meetings, and most of all, utterly fatigued from people asking me if Fosters really is Australian for beer (um, no), the time has come for a comprehensive guide to genuine Australian slang with an Amelia-centric twang...
Writing on the monks’ journey, Pravda—the former organ of the banned Communist Party of the Soviet Union, now the organ of, um, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation—wrote that negotiations would happen in “Harvard State University, Boston, US.” Hey—if the monks want to spice up their social lives a little, harvard-parties.com-style, far be it from me to stand in their way. But please, I wondered, could they stop yammering about those silly bells...