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

[Wilson Gray]

> "Four q,"

StL BE version:

A pushcart salesman - still a common sight in The Lou, during my lost youth
- is hawking his wares in front of a "four-family flat," a kind of small,
4-story apartment building, when a woman calls down, "I'll take two!" He
replies, "What-a numba?!" She calls back, "4-Q!"
"Fawk you?!" he asks. "Yes! 4-Q!" "Well, then, fawk you, too, lady! I no
haff t' bring!"

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:25 PM, 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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