[Ads-l] How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity

Barretts Mail mail.barretts at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 16 22:30:39 UTC 2018


What does skin-clad mean, other than having skin? BB

> On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:25, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> When I was in high-school, one of my brow-ridged, skin-clad classmates knew
> a jolly witticism. He'd ask, "What's 3q + 1q?"
> 
> Get ready to laugh. When you'd say, "Four q," he'd say, "You cussin' me
> out?!" Then he'd feign a punch to your mouth.
> 
> Humor's golden age.
> 
> JL
> 
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Then there’s “fork”, popularized in (and possibly limited to) the world of
>> “The Good Place” (NBC-TV), as in “what the fork(?)"
>> 
>> LH
>> 
>>> On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:11 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>> 
>>> << Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the
>>> 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used
>>> throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a
>>> profanity in science fiction. >>  -----Wikip
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