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Boy Wages Internet Campaign To Stop Cussing, With Predictably Hilarious Results

Posted by Brian Fairbanks

 

Instead of an obvious career in modeling or as a child star, McKay Hatch, a 14-year-old boy in California, decided to start a high school group called "No Cussing." Their pledge caught on, quickly garnering over 100 students. When the internet campaign began, the whole country, including Dr. Phil and Good Morning America, took notice. Their message of clean speech eventually spread all over the world, and peaked recently at 10,000 members.

But then the rest of the internet, the pranksters and redditors and Farkers, decided Hatch's campaign needed some pizzazz...

Go fuck yourself. 

What the fuck are you doing?

Bullshit.

These are just three of the many thousands of hate mail messages Hatch has received since the word got out. Pizzas will arrive at his house at all hours, the phone rings all night long with prank callers. Best yet, the porn magazines consistently fill up Hatch's mailbox.

What do you think? Is this kid asking for it-- saying some words are "wrong"-- or does he have a valid issue here?

 

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Apollo said:

While I agree the kid should stop with the high and mighty clean language attitude (not cussing doesn't make you less of a prick, believe me), I don't think he knew what he was getting into when he started this and probably doesn't deserve all the trolling.

January 15, 2009 10:55 AM

jermyn said:

I think his parents should've done some serious thinking about whether or not they wanted their fourteen-year old in the national media championing such an obviously lampoonable cause.

Lampoonable is not a real word.  Fuck me.

January 15, 2009 11:06 AM

thinkywritey said:

*Anyone* who posts *anything* on the net probably already knows that they are going to get troll-bombed with "hilarious" and well-thought taunts like "fuck you  you fucking gaywad" all day and all night.

January 15, 2009 11:10 AM

Scrotorr said:

I think Penn & Teller covered how stupid it is to get all riled up over supposed "curse" words.  It's a word, it only holds power if you let it.  Almost any word could have the power these other words do.  If a word describes the exact same thing then it should have the same effect but people let it morph into something else in their heads.  Penis = OK but Cock = horrible.

Let's get over "cuss" words and realize that they are just words like any other.

January 15, 2009 12:02 PM

blondage said:

I think jermyn hit the nail on the head. Conversely, he *is* 14 years old, not 8. Most kids these days are boning by age 14 - I think they can handle a little ribbing. That said, hopefully the porn mags will help him get his pubescent priorities straight. ;)

January 15, 2009 1:44 PM

profrobert said:

Is it just me, or does the kid look a little Clintonish?

January 15, 2009 3:19 PM

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Brian Fairbanks, the Senior National Political Correspondent for Hooksexup, is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn or New Orleans, depending on the season. He is a heavily-armed advocate of gun control.

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