Flying Fuck (1932)?

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

This is a joke, right? I mean, the censors "let it pass" because it contained 
no objectionable words, not because one could not imagine objectionable 
words--or unobjectionable words--filling the gap.

For example, the censors did not let pass "You will Blanche, you will" 
because they realized that she could have said, "You fucking will, Blanche, you 
fucking will" but didn't. But that doesn't mean that the line doesn't mean "You 
certainly will, Blanche, you certainly will." 

In a message dated 9/12/08 11:23:57 PM, hwgray at GMAIL.COM writes:


> Because the censors would have let it pass?
> 
> -HWG
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> > Poster:       "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
> > Subject:      Re: Flying Fuck (1932)?
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> > At 9/11/2008 09:31 AM, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
> >>On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:10:54PM -0400, David Marc Fischer wrote:
> >> > I finally saw the movie Scarface (1932) and noticed a line of dialogue
> >> > that goes something like
> >> >
> >> > - They said you could take a flyin'...
> >> > - Okay, okay.
> >> >
> >> > See the transcript at
> >> >
> >> >
> >> 
> http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/s/scarface-script-transcript-paul-muni.html
> >> >
> >> > I figured I'd share this with all youse word sleuths out there.
> >>
> >>This quotation is already in HDAS, which has two earlier
> >>examples of "take a flying...".
> >
> > How do we know it isn't "... leap"?
> >
> > Joel
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