2006-03-04

prgrmr: (just shoot me)
2006-03-04 01:07 am

context matters

My hypothetical neighbor has this little yippy, puff-ball dog he walks everyday. It's a shitzsu.

My other hypothetical neighbor has a mental disorder that manifests itself as an uncontrolable urge to play with dog poop. One day he was out in the yard, and he made a little model city completely out of dog poop. It included a minature zoological gardens, which, naturally, he called "the shit zoo".

The first story would be allowed to be told on American broadcast television without editing; the second would not. Because context matters.