"slut" in the news

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Thu Jul 7 04:50:36 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, but most of those are OK now, so replacements are needed.

Quite so.;-)

What's *truly* ridiculous is the censoring of "bad" language in the
dialogue of programs in syndication by the big boys to local - and,
sometimes, even national, e.g. A&E - off-brand channels.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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