Taboo avoidance of the day

[Jonathan Lighter]

You should be ashamed of being so interested in unprintable words that you
would search for them to gloat over. By way of contrast, a well conducted
mind would have been shockedshocked.

In context, of course, "these" is unprintable.

JL

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:

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> Of the 70s girl band The Runaways, "Creem magazine infamously
> dismissed them with three unprintable words."
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/movies/14runaways.html?pagewanted=2
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Jesse Sheidlower
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