Bad words can lead to this

Should Shakespeare have salted his plays with curse words?  Would Lawrence of Arabia be better if it were re-dubbed with profanity?

It was a godsend to hack writers when the F-word was allowed on the big screen.  “Pass the peas,” doesn’t have the strength, drama, comedy of “Pass the f…ing peas.”

Like a hideous film script made salable by adding porno scenes, sprinkling profane words that cinema-goers couldn’t hear on TV made lazy and/or incompetent writers accomplished.

Well, it just so happens that the Parents TV Council says that tube profanity is up 69% during primetime.

Now it’s true that PTC’s curse words include Damn (shocking for Scarlett and Rhett at Tara) and Hell (testy even in the fifties) but way out of George Carlin’s league.

We won’t tie this news item up with a sermon, but if Will Shakespeare were brought back to life through DNA, it would be instructive to hear his thoughts on the state of multi-media entertainment in the past 400 years of progress.