Man, I love curse words. My love affair with the F-bomb started as a wee child watching the classic film, Major League. Here’s a good way to celebrate your favorite vulgarity. It’s a celebration, bitches!:
The Swearing Festival is back, and it's fucking mad. Last year's eventwas a blast of oaths and curses that set alight the olde Edinburgh
Castle Pub in the fragrant Tenderloin District in San Francisco. A
massive crowd descended on the venue to enjoy the colorful use of
language.
THE SWEARING FESTIVAL II
WHEN: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 10
TIMES: 3PM EXPERTS PANEL DISCUSSION
8PM MAIN EVENT (doors 7pm)
WHERE: EDINBURGH CASTLE PUB, 950 GEARY ST, SAN FRANCISCO
415-884-4074/www.castlenews.com
COST : PANEL $5/ MAIN EVENT $12
TICKET INFO: www.castlenews.com
The Swearing Festival is back, and it's fucking mad. Last year's event
was a blast of oaths and curses that set alight the olde Edinburgh
Castle Pub in the fragrant Tenderloin District in San Francisco. A
massive crowd descended on the venue to enjoy the colorful use of
language.
Like sex, swearing is as popular as ever. The statistics prove it. In
America, 72 percent of men and 58 percent of women swear in public. 48
percent of people who are over age 55 cuss in front of others. How
naughty! Old codgers like to say fuck a lot. Swearing makes up 3 percent
of all adult conversation at work and 13 percent of all adult leisure
conversation.
Swearing has been around since the first caveman dropped a boulder on
his foot and yelled $%&! Swear words in earlier societies took on magic
powers. Curses and oaths were originally deistic and filled with threat.
Later visceral swearing developed in industrial societies as people came
into closer contact with others body fluids and the body parts that made
those fluids. Incest and familial curses joined the fray.
Anthropologists suggest that swearing is a survival mechanism - GET OUT
OF MY FUCKING CAVE! It is a vital linguistic step in creating
identifiable groupings. The need to belong yet again raises its ugly
head. The foul mouth needs to be exercised. That's why we have the
Swearing Festival.
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WHAT'S ON AT THE SWEARING FESTIVAL II
Here's what.
AFTERNOON PANEL, 3pm Edinburgh Castle Pub
Linguists and experts discuss How the shits and fucks have changed the
world?
Linguist, Dr. Jonathan Hunt and Litquake founder and writer Jack
Boulware are signed up. More tba.
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EVENING EVENT, 8pm Edinburgh Castle Pub
*THE MASS SWEARING EXPERIMENT
Anthropologists flash images at the crowd to get their vile responses
*THE MOST-VILE OATH CONTEST
Great prizes for the person with the best oath and curse! In 30
seconds, demolish your ex-husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, asshole boss,
roommate or the dog that keeps shitting on the sidewalk outside your
apartment.
*THE VERBAL ABUSE DUEL
Pistols drawn! Face off against a complete stranger! Just yards from
their face, give them the once over and eviscerate them from your
soapbox. And wait for their reply. The mob will be the judge. Prizes for
those left standing, bandages for the emotionally wounded.
*THE OATH WALL
Scrawl your favorite oaths and curses on our massive wall.
*SWEAR INTO THE LIGHT
Victims strapped into the cussing seat, designed by the Vice
Presidential Ideas Group
*LIVE MUSIC WITH LES MERDES
Vile cover versions of your famous, favorite songs.
*FOREIGN SWEARIING
How to cuss that stale croissant or dodgy curry while vacationing.
*SHITE DISCO
Finish off the night by dancing to our disc jockey's tribute to really
shite disco.
*GIVE-AWAYS. PRIZES BY CHRONICLE BOOKS
*SPECIAL GUESTS
MORE EFFEN BLINDING
*Exodus 20:7-THOU SHALT NOT TAKE THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD IN VAIN
*The word cunt was originally a word of tribute for women in earlier
societies.
*The first appearance of the words fuck and cunt in the Oxford English
Dictionary was in 1972.
*Dick Cheney told Patrick Leahy to go fuck himself on the floor of the
Senate. Nice.
*FCUK posters caused a stir when they hit the streets.
*This is the name of a village in Austria
*Madonna used the f-word on Letterman 13 times.
