From King:
Semester is winding down, last classes today, so people seem a little goofy. I've been known to slip in class and use the occasional curse word. Teaching the first-year students this fall I decided to try to control my behavior. We created a fund into which a dollar would go from my pocket for each bad word used. By the third week of class I was in double digits, and $16 by the end of September. It was monumentally embarrassing to see the number on the blackboard each lecture.
I ended the semester today. Bad word fund = $21. The students agreed to cookies or bagels for the class with the money. You know they had visions of huge pizza party dancing in their heads in early fall. Incentives matter.
Did he use George Carlin's 7 dirty words you can't say on TV as his basis?
- &^$%
- %^#$
- #*&^
- @!$$
- $4!^$^%&@&$%^#
- &^%$&#$-%^$&#*
- *1*$
Were there others that made the King List?
Then there's always the official course gesture.