{"id":4859,"date":"2011-01-14T17:01:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4859"},"modified":"2011-01-14T23:54:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T23:54:07","slug":"word-of-the-day-faggot-there-canada-i-said-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=4859","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day &#8211; &#8220;Faggot!&#8221;&#8230; There, Canada, I Said It!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Word%20Of%20The%20Day%20-%20%22Faggot%21%22...%20There%2C%20Canada%2C%20I%20Said%20It%21%21%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>After  25 years, Canada has officially banned the Dire Straits song &#8220;Money For  Nothing&#8221; because it&#8217;s extremely offensive!  You Know, it has the word  &#8220;Faggot&#8221; in it. Blog Pals and Facebook Friends, Please link to the offensive song and  lets offend Canada like never before!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Signed &#8211; A Bass Playing  &#8220;Faggot&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"veohFlashPlayer\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"410\" height=\"341\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"veohFlashPlayer\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/static\/swf\/webplayer\/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.5.4.1019&amp;permalinkId=e178381Gmta9Kdw&amp;player=videodetailsembedded&amp;videoAutoPlay=0&amp;id=anonymous\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"veohFlashPlayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"410\" height=\"341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/static\/swf\/webplayer\/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.5.4.1019&amp;permalinkId=e178381Gmta9Kdw&amp;player=videodetailsembedded&amp;videoAutoPlay=0&amp;id=anonymous\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" name=\"veohFlashPlayer\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/browse\/videos\/category\/music\/watch\/e178381Gmta9Kdw\">Dire Straits &#8211; Money for Nothing<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\/browse\/videos\/category\/music\">Music<\/a> |\u00a0\u00a0View More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veoh.com\">Free Videos Online at Veoh.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS. It gets better. This British paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1347030\/Canada-radio-stations-told-censor-homophobic-Dire-Straits-hit-Money-For-Nothing.html\">can&#8217;t even let itself print the word<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The council concluded that &#8216;f****t&#8217;. when used to describe a homosexual man, is a word &#8216;that, even if entirely or marginally acceptable in earlier days, is no longer so.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It appears like that 5 times!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Guy Fletcher, the keyboardist for the band in 85, isn&#8217;t taking this lying down. He has words to say about this, which includes the word &#8220;Faggot&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>And a shout-out must go out to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.k97.fm\/index.asp?mn=5&amp;cc=2&amp;id=474\">Edmonton radio station K-97 FM<\/a> which will play the &#8220;Faggot&#8221;ed version of the song Friday evening repeatedly from 8 to 9 MST to support freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I&#8217;ll be at a gig, but I encourage all my friends to listen, or at least log in and give them a thumbs up!<\/p>\n<p>PPS. I would be remiss if I didn&#8217;t post this!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LAYMJnO9LBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LAYMJnO9LBQ?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And thanks for the link <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaypatriot.net\/2011\/01\/14\/dire-straits-offensive-to-gays\/\">Gay Patriot<\/a>. Always appreciate the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Word%20Of%20The%20Day%20-%20%22Faggot%21%22...%20There%2C%20Canada%2C%20I%20Said%20It%21%21%21%21%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>After 25 years, Canada has officially banned the Dire Straits song &#8220;Money For Nothing&#8221; because it&#8217;s extremely offensive! You Know, it has the word &#8220;Faggot&#8221; in it. Blog Pals and Facebook Friends, Please link to the offensive song and lets offend Canada like never before!!!! Signed &#8211; A Bass Playing &#8220;Faggot&#8221;! Watch Dire Straits &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4861,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4859\/revisions\/4861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}