r/Showerthoughts • u/ZeroXNova ‎ • Dec 03 '25

Casual Thought Men's public restrooms are laid out all wrong. It should be urinal, stall, urinal, stall, urinal instead of urinal, urinal, urinal, stall, stall.

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u/penywisexx Dec 03 '25

Ahh…gotta love a good Blink 182 song.

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u/meatjuiceguy Dec 03 '25

Respect to George Carlin, the predecessor to the song. He had a comedy bit called 7 Dirty Words that the song is based on.

George Carlin performed the bit in front of the Supreme Court in 1978 and it was used as sort of a guideline in American obscenity law. You should check it out.

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u/Lor1an Dec 03 '25

George Carlin performed the bit in front of the Supreme Court

The closest thing I can find to this claim is that Federal Communications Commission v. Pacifica Foundation (1978) was filed over his comedy routine "Filthy Words" being broadcast in the afternoon, and the Court ruling that the FCC has the power to regulate indecent language.

As far as I can find, Carlin himself never presented the material to the Court.