tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post6874390800373188287..comments2024-03-07T17:13:54.927-05:00Comments on A Fuse #8 Production: Podcast Edition: Scrotastic!fusenumber8http://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-23426990067581682042007-02-21T22:16:00.000-05:002007-02-21T22:16:00.000-05:00I think what has people so upset is that the word ...I think what has people so upset is that the word scrotum may actually lead to conversations - with children! - about such words as testicles or possibly even penis. Those are such difficult words, especially when "dingleballs" or "peepee" serve so well. Why go muddy up the works with the correct terminology for anatomy - even if it is a dog's anatomy?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-43015989905823634622007-02-20T21:21:00.000-05:002007-02-20T21:21:00.000-05:00I think the think that really frustrates is how fe...I think the think that really frustrates is how few words rhyme with scrotum. Like husband or orange, it really kicks up dust in the face of a decent rhyme. Best I could come up with was "don't ya just dote on 'em, love them books with scrotum." I know, dreadful. <BR/>Next?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-17560499847713248002007-02-20T14:53:00.000-05:002007-02-20T14:53:00.000-05:00I have been sorely tempted to start referring to "...I have been sorely tempted to start referring to "The Higher Power of Lucky's Scrotum," but I feel in my heart that someone's already done it. Not that I can find it again....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-32903342882065674602007-02-20T13:35:00.000-05:002007-02-20T13:35:00.000-05:00Thanks Jenny for the View tip.On the west coast th...Thanks Jenny for the View tip.<BR/>On the west coast they bleeped<BR/>out Joy and others using any euphanism for scrotum which I found quite laughable, and made a point, at that, and having Barbara <BR/>Walters read the passage out loud was quite something to behold.topangamariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01471547925766098901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-85171519123288570232007-02-20T11:06:00.000-05:002007-02-20T11:06:00.000-05:00Turn on the View! The scotum is on!Turn on the View! The scotum is on!Jenny Hanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08748342360866170726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-9373438736157794602007-02-20T10:55:00.000-05:002007-02-20T10:55:00.000-05:00Well, Anonymous, I'm probably not the best person ...Well, Anonymous, I'm probably not the best person to ask. Consider that I live and work in New York City where book challenges are rare beasties, usually found only on Staten Island. I have no concept of how many librarians are actually refusing to stock this book based on The Word alone. We do know that book challenges and the like go unreported every year, so the same can probably be said for librarian exclusions. I mean, who's going to count the small library system where a single librarian simply doesn't purchase the title without making a big fuss? Probably happens once in a while. I don't think this is a massive nationwide ban including thousands of scrotumphobic MLIS degree-holders. At the same time, it probably occurs more than we know.<BR/><BR/>I see your scrotumania, Sherry, and I find that it works far better than the scrotumphilia I was thinking about. You win.fusenumber8https://www.blogger.com/profile/16216979020263363698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-27254540235279552772007-02-20T09:42:00.000-05:002007-02-20T09:42:00.000-05:00I am a suppoter: http://maclibrary.edublogs.org/20...I am a suppoter: http://maclibrary.edublogs.org/2007/02/19/the-higher-power-of-lucky-why-select-this-book/.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-2003535324910542007-02-20T09:21:00.000-05:002007-02-20T09:21:00.000-05:00Okay, there's the one librarian quoted in the NYT...Okay, there's the one librarian quoted in the NYT article who claims to have heard from "dozens" of supporters. In a country this big, "dozens" seems like a pretty weency minority of librarians. There's "sherry" who commented earlier on your blog. how many others are there? I can't access LM.Net or any of the childlit serves. is there anybody really on the other side in this debate? how many people? six? who maybe all blogged over and over? because i have read the blogs that I could find and I am not finding anything but people foaming at the mouth about those evil prude librarians. not much sign of EPL themselves. Fuse, can you tell those of us who aren't insiders how many of these people there really are? are they real, in your opinion? because this looks like a tempest in a teapot, and tilting at windmills and boxing at non-existent shadows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-39862071779089246422007-02-20T09:14:00.000-05:002007-02-20T09:14:00.000-05:00There's a rallying cry and letter writing campaig...There's a rallying cry and letter writing campaign on CCBC-Net listserve over the New York Times<BR/>bias of not quoting anyone who actually had read Lucky or liked Lucky. Talk about a biased report.<BR/>public@nytimes.com is the NY Times public editor's address.topangamariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01471547925766098901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-6242098047644663432007-02-20T09:11:00.001-05:002007-02-20T09:11:00.001-05:00I never knew the word "scrotum" could be so exciti...I never knew the word "scrotum" could be so exciting until one day Mother and Daddy were playing a charades game with my sister and me. The game was to act out a single word instead of a title or phrase, and I gave Mother the word "scrotum" to act out for Daddy to guess. She made us leave the room before she'd do it. I know she didn't cheat because he never guessed it. Eventually she called us back into the room and gave us the point. I remember to this day how exasperated she was that the kids knew the clinical names for his body parts and he didn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15089389.post-23027733580196364232007-02-20T09:11:00.000-05:002007-02-20T09:11:00.000-05:00Book Moot has a great post about Concerned Parents...Book Moot has a <A HREF="http://bookmoot.blogspot.com/2007/02/there-is-difference.html" REL="nofollow">great post</A> about Concerned Parents vs. Book Banning Know-Nutters, which follows her own take on the topic as a school librarian. Oh, and Scott Westerfield has a funny, yet insightful, <A HREF="http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/?p=195" REL="nofollow">post</A> on the Scrotum Incident of 2007.MotherReaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11274509991340797264noreply@blogger.com