This is bigger than Nicki Minaj: Some of America's foremost trash talkers are corporate CEOs. Bloomberg LP has catalogued chief executives' use of the words "s---" and also 'f---," a------" and "G---d---ed" in publicly-traded companies' quarterly conference calls for the past 10 years, and found a surge after the 2008 stock market collapse.
Boss potty-talk eruptions in those recorded, transcripted and public exchanges rose from less than 10 a year in 2004-08, to more than 20 in 2009, and an average of more than 50 in 2010-12, before slipping to 30 as stock values rose last year, and 12 so far this year (though first-half reporting isn't done yet.)
Multiple-repeat offenders including Scotts Miracle-Gro CEO James Hagedorn, who for example called 2012 "clearly a s----y year"; longtime Ryanair boss James O'Leary, who told the world in 2011 that "I have no interest in f---ing dividends;" and Emerson Electric boss David N. Farr: "If I see that in writing one more G--d-----d time, I'm going to tear them apart... We do well in China, G--d---it, and I'm not embarrassed by it..." More here.