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454.    foul language on RinkWorks

To:  dave@rinkworks.com, sam@rinkworks.com
Subject:  howdy
Date:  Tue, 19 Sep 2006, at 20:25:49 EDT

howdy,

I just wanted to let you know I enjoyed this site very much,but I DID NOT
appreciate the foul language!please, lay off the bad language!thank you
cici

From:  The Rink <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  Re: howdy
Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006, at 09:30:25

> I just wanted to let you know I enjoyed this site very much,but I DID NOT
> appreciate the foul language!please, lay off the bad language!thank you

What the heck site were you on?  I don't allow foul language on RinkWorks.

To:  sam@rinkworks.com
Subject:  Re: howdy
Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006, at 14:26:10 EDT

Howdy,
sorry it said to email this email address for  Book-A-Minute,sorry.

From:  The Rink <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  Re: howdy
Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006, at 16:42:34

> Howdy,
> sorry it said to email this email address for  Book-A-Minute,sorry.

This is the correct address for Book-A-Minute.

So, uh...what foul language are we talking about, exactly?

To:  sam@rinkworks.com
Subject:  Re: howdy
Date:  Wed, 20 Sep 2006, at 17:03:00 EDT

howdy,
I was talking about Romeo and Juliet, I thought the site, great,humorous  but
I didn't appreciate the language their, I didn't see any until Romeo and
Juliet. thanx

From:  The Rink <sam@rinkworks.com>
Subject:  Re: howdy
Date:  Thu, 21 Sep 2006, at 10:21:32

> howdy,
> I was talking about Romeo and Juliet, I thought the site, great,humorous  but
> I didn't appreciate the language their, I didn't see any until Romeo and
> Juliet. thanx

Ah.  You do realize the language there is far tamer than Shakespeare's
actual writings, right?  And some of his most famous lines are no better,
such as "Out, damned spot!" from MacBeth?  Seems to me that it's reasonable for
someone writing about Shakespeare to assume his readers can handle material
that is not any harsher than anything Shakespeare actually wrote.

I certainly, like many, have a problem with the increasing prevalence of
profanity in the things we read.  Even family newspapers aren't so family
oriented anymore, and it seems like just about anything on the Internet,
however commercial, is peppered with four letter words far harsher than
anything I allow on RinkWorks under any circumstances.  So, yeah, I sympathize
with your perspective, but I just have absolutely no idea whatsoever why you'd
email *me*, of all people, and complain about one use of one word that's
scarcely even considered profanity anymore, and *isn't*, really, when you get
right down to it.  Seriously, I mean, I've got one of the cleanest humor sites
on the web right now.  So why email me?

I never heard back. The whole episode would have been funnier if I hadn't asked for clarification, though, because the idea of someone complaining about profanity on RinkWorks in general is pretty funny. But in spite of my long-winded final email, I suppose she technically had me dead to rights.