Message 18471 of 39188 in General Discussion

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You have a damn good point there.
You are well within your rights to lodge a formal complaint with the 
authorities. I'll second the objection if you want.

You need to write a letter to the international cocktail committee. Those are 
the guys are in charge of going around to each bar and checking that the menus 
and drinks conform to both regulation recipes and community standards. After 
all, it would be unthinkable if different bars served drinks with the same 
name but different ingredients. Or even worse if they listed a regulation 
cocktail and chose some other non-standard (possibly lewd) name for it.

In some states the enforcement officers even have the authority to raid 
private parties where more than three different liquors are made available for 
consumption - After all, there are plenty of times some frat boy will mix 
Sambucca with everclear and gatorade and name it a "shit-kicking nigger" or 
something equally offensive. As you know, the use of profanity is illegal in 
licenced establishments worldwide, so some people attempt to use these pseudo 
cocktail names in an attempt to avoid prosecution.

Of course, the Webtender Site is not and cannot be involved in censorship of 
this sort at all. The cocktail names you may see here (or here 
http://cocktails.about.com/library/recipes/blxrated.htm ) are not the 
responsibility of the site owners, but of the persons that created those names 
in the first place. If you are aware of anyone originating such a name, please 
report them immediately to the committee.
Note: the International Bartenders Association in NOT related to these 
enforcement tasks at all, so don't get them mixed up.

Good luck, but you may want to consider installing some protection software 
such as cyberSitter or netNanny on your machine to prevent you coming across 
lewd content in the future. Webtender content is rated 18+ in many parts of 
the world http://www.webtender.com/info/contentfilter.html (Access can even be 
restricted just using Internet Explorer)

.dan.