![]() ![]() ''She just wants it in her infantile baby talk.'' ''She's not against barnyard vulgarity,'' Mr. Then there's her favorite sign, a childlike drawing of a bull defecating, with a line through it. ![]() Foster's own religion, Christianity, that she believes deserves protection. Jillette explains that saying holy cow, even in Spanish, is offensive to Hindu beliefs, so it's just Ms. Foster a ''hypocritical prig'' on ''a silly power trip.'' When she suggests ''santa vaca!'' as a substitute expletive, Mr. And while she agrees that English is a living language, ''when we say ugly things, then that living language becomes an agent of death.'' ''The use of profanity degrades society,'' Ms. There is also Ginny Foster, a high school driver-education teacher whose hobby is protesting profanity in public places. O'Connor by writing these words on the wall: ''provincial, prissy, monomaniacal self-appointed language czar.'' (If we could all be that articulate, we probably wouldn't use so many four-letter words.) O'Connor is the author of ''Cuss Control: The Complete Book on How to Curb Your Cursing.'' Teller expresses his opinion of Mr. Jim Lafferty of the Traditional Values Coalition says, ''I agree with the First Amendment, but I think there are limits.'' James V. Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Howard Stern, the old reliables, are cited, but they're countered by three contemporary Americans who have made opposition to profanity part of their lives' work. Next week's episode, on profanity, is more original. Yes, it's shocking that funeral home employees push overpriced coffins to people who aren't in any emotional shape to shop wisely, but we knew that. ![]() Tonight's topic, death, is not exactly an unexamined issue, at least in terms of the show's high-cost-of-funerals focus. Jillette is the taller of the two and speaks Teller, who goes by one name, is shorter and completely silent. Penn & Teller's half-hour Showtime series, whose full title is vulgar (they wanted to call it ''Penn & Teller: Humbug,'' they say, but settled for the profane contemporary equivalent), begins a run of five new episodes tonight with the two comedians-magicians-debunkers in fine form. Go ahead and have your body cryonically preserved, Penn Jillette says, but even if it turns out that it is possible to thaw and reanimate you decades from now, who do you think is likely to go to all that trouble and expense? ''Some evil scientist looking for untraceable slave labor,'' he suggests. Leave it to Penn & Teller to be thinking of the future. ![]()
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