random taboo avoidance

[Victor Steinbok]

For collectors of alliterative taboo avoidance phrases:

In the episode The Naming of the Dead of Season 3 of the show Rebus, set
in Edinburgh, one of the characters refers to his cousin as "a barnshed
artist"--which is awfully close to "bullshit artist". The show is not
short on "vulgarities", so it got my attention to the point that I
replayed it three or four times to make sure I heard it right. I found
no other similar references anywhere.

     VS-)

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