Veep and

[Jonathan Lighter]

No sex scenes on _Veep_.  But there's only been one episode. And it's a
comedy.

Soon all audiences over the age of ten will be so satiated/ desensitized to
every form of explicit sex and extreme violence that "entertainment" will
become impossible.

BTW, GB turns up a _pencil-fuck_ from 1997, where it appears to mean
"to victimize through the use of writing" :

"I want to ask him to break the current standing record for ways a lawyer
can pencil-fuck a tiny little schmoe."

The only ex. I find on the Net. New to me, too.

JL

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 10:31 AM, paul johnson <paulzjoh at mtnhome.com> wrote:

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> I don't know if this even needs an answer, but is there a statistical
> analysis between gratuitous  soft core sex scenes and gratuitous
> profanity, on TV?
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> On 4/24/2012 8:45 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> > "Pencil-whipped" seems perfectly adequate, and more authentic.  This was
> > upgraded to "-fucked" because . . .?  To make it more "edgy"?
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