Taboo avoidance of the day

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Sun Mar 14 10:56:59 UTC 2010


Of the 70s girl band The Runaways, "Creem magazine infamously
dismissed them with three unprintable words."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/movies/14runaways.html?pagewanted=2

The review, not trivially easy to find, was "These bitches
suck." I don't see three unprintable words, but maybe I'm just
math-deprived this early in the morning.

But they could at least put a goddamn link in, so the reader
doesn't have to wonder what the hell is going on. Grrr.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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