Obscenity on British TV

Wed Sep 21 13:57:41 UTC 2005

Jonathan Lighter wrote:

>Asterixes ?  ASTERIXES ? ? ? ?
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>What's next, "the _Iliad_ by Homer Simpson" ? ? ? ?
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>I am not just flabbergasted; I am obfusticated !
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I'm more intrigued by the quotation marks. Presumably, Ken Tynan didn't
use "f***" in 1965. That looks like wrongly ordered parentheses. And
what happened to the practice of only asterisking the vowels?

Jesse Sheidlower's e-mail was the first time I've seen "torrent" as a verb, though it's clearly catching on <http://shorl.com/girodubydepru>.

Chris Waigl