Notable Instances in Popular Culture
- Mythbusters confirmed a myth that swearing increases people's tolerance to pain.
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Pygmalion (play) by George Bernard Shaw (for the use of bloody)
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell and the film – "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn", said in 1939, was among the first uses of profanity in a major American film.
- Winnebago Man documentary starring Jack Rebney
- Seven Dirty Words - a comedy routine by George Carlin, from 1972, in which he explained the seven words that must never be used in a television broadcast.
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