random taboo avoidance

[Douglas G. Wilson]

On 11/29/2011 12:01 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
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> For collectors of alliterative taboo avoidance phrases:
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> 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"
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Cf. "barnshoot" ... but maybe just coincidence?

-- Doug Wilson

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