"blonde" goes unutterable

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Sat Jun 7 13:49:00 UTC 2014


At 6/7/2014 08:54 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>When CNN broadcast the YouTube threats of homicidal madman Elliot Rodger,
>they deleted the final words of his threat to kill "every spoiled, stuck up
>------ ------."    Living in the past, I assumed the deleted words began
>with "f" and "c."
>
>But this is the 21st Century. According to the same magazine, p. 39, the
>taboo words Rodger uttered (with studied cartoon villain affect) were
>"blonde slut."

I thought it was "valley girl" that had been censored.

Joel

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