THE BOOKMAN

The bookman

Last night at the 2011 Oscar Presentation, a recipient , in her thank you speech, let the F word slip out of her mouth. Of course the vigilant network blipped out the offensive utterance from the air. That reminded me of our Bookman of yore that we used to avoid similar trouble.

In the High school my children attended (that was in the last century), we had a Bookman. He was on duty every time there was a parents’ meeting at school that same night. He had a couple of spray paint cans and an hour before the meeting he roamed the halls looking for offensive graffiti. Then using the appropriate spray can he would change the F into a B, and the U and the C into an O. Some parents were pleased to see how much their children appeared to like BOOKS!