<P> In 1972, George Carlin released an album of stand - up comedy entitled Class Clown . One track on the album was "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television," a monologue in which he identified these words, expressing amazement that these particular words could not be used, regardless of context . </P> <P> I don't know that there was a' Eureka!' moment or anything like that . (...) On these other things, we get into the field of hypocrisy . Where you really cannot pin down what these rules they want to enforce are . It's just impossible to say' this is a blanket rule:' . You'll see some newspapers print' f blank blank k' . Some print' f asterisk asterisk k' . Some blank--Some put' f blank blank blank' . Some put the word' bleep' . Some put, um ...' expletive deleted' . So there's no...there's no real consistent standard . It's not a science . It's a notion that they have and it's superstitious . These words have no power . We give them this power by refusing to be free and easy with them . We give them great power over us . They really, in themselves, have no power . It's the thrust of the sentence that makes them either good or bad . </P> <P> He was arrested for disturbing the peace when he performed the routine at a show at Summerfest in Milwaukee . </P> <P> On his next album, 1973's Occupation: Foole, Carlin performed a similar routine titled "Filthy Words," dealing with the same list and many of the same themes . Pacifica station WBAI broadcast this version of the routine uncensored on October 30 that year . </P>

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