Legal motion on history of Fuck

The Smoking Gun awards its Legal Document of the Year award title to this motion defending a Colorado teenager arrested for yelling "some variants of the 'F' word" at a school vice principal. TSG reports, "Faced with what he thought was a speech crime, Eric Vanatta, the teen's public defender, drafted the below motion to dismiss the misdemeanor charge. The District Court document is an amusing and profane look at the world's favorite four-letter word, from its origins in 1500 to today's frequent use of the term by Eminem, Chris Rock, and Lenny Kravitz. . . . TSG's favorite part of the motion is the chart comparing Google results for the "F" word and other all-American terms like mom, baseball, and apple pie."

Posted on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:05 PM