Michigan court says talking penis on TV is indecent
DETROIT (Reuters) - A Michigan court apparently has ended the television career of a talking penis.
A three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals declared that the talking penis, nicknamed Dick Smart, telling "purportedly humorous" jokes on a Grand Rapids, Michigan, public access cable television channel constituted indecent exposure.
The court let stand a one-day jail sentence already served by the show's creator, Timothy Huffman.
Wednesday's ruling contained a transcript of the three-minute segment that aired twice in 2000, including the voice-over lines delivered in the style of the late comedian Rodney Dangerfield: "Hi, I'm Dick Smart. I am a comedian, yeah, stand up, ha."
Huffman could not immediately be reached for comment but he told the Detroit Free Press newspaper he planned to appeal in defence of his right to freedom of speech.
Now you have to laugh at that, a penis named dick smart. And also, is'nt that a oxi-moron? Course the Dick does do alot of the thinking.
Italy court makes impotent ex-husband pay damages
ROME (Reuters) - An impotent Italian man who kept his problem a secret from his wife until after their wedding must pay her damages for 'eroding' her right to have a family, Italy's Supreme Court has ruled.
The woman, identified by the Italian media as Cristina S., was quick to get her marriage annulled in the 1990s after learning to her horror that her husband could not consummate it.
She then demanded damages, saying she had been robbed of her "right to sexuality" and the promise of a family. Despite losing legal battles in lower courts, she kept appealing, and finally the Supreme Court found in her favour.
"Her fundamental right (was) eroded to fully realise a family, as a woman and a wife, and eventually as a mother," according to excerpts from the court ruling published in Italian newspapers on Thursday.
The amount of damages will be settled by a lower court in Sicily, where the unhappy couple were married.
I guess she did'nt try the milk before she bought the cow?
Broadcast watchdog bans TV porn channels
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's broadcasting watchdog banned four adult television channels Friday, saying their erotic programming flouted Turkish cultural values.
The channels, Adult Channel, Exotica TV, Playboy TV and Rouge TV, are available at night via Turkey's only satellite broadcaster, Digiturk.
In a statement, the Radio and Television High Council, cited a license requirement that programming be in "the public service and ... in line with the national, moral, humane, spiritual and cultural values of the Turkish people."
Turkey, a candidate for European Union membership, strictly separates state and religion but most of its 70 million people are devout Muslims. The conservative watchdog rarely imposes bans on broadcasters, but regularly issues short suspensions for minor infringements.
Another blow to cheerleaders, dont these people have anything else to do, a life or a working dick?
Texas to cheerleaders: Don't shake it anymore
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas lawmakers sent a message to the state's high school cheerleaders on Wednesday: no more booty-shaking at the game.
The state's House of Representatives voted 85-55 to approve a bill that would forbid sexy cheers and give the Texas Education Agency authority to punish schools that allow "overtly sexually suggestive" routines at football games and other events.
The proposal must go to the Texas Senate for consideration.
"People are calling and telling me how disgusting it is to see sexually suggestive routines on the part of marching units or cheerleaders," said State Rep. Al Edwards, a Houston Democrat who sponsored the bill.
He complained of cheerleaders "shaking their behinds, breaking it down," but the proposal does not define what constitutes suggestive cheering.
Democratic state Rep. Senfronia Thompson, also of Houston, said the bill was a waste of valuable time.
"I think the Texas Education Agency has enough to do making sure our kids are better educated, and we are wasting our time with 'one two three four, we can't shake it any more?'" Thompson told legislators.
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