[Ads-l] Has anyone else noticed the use of "dick" and "pussy" to mean...

[Jonathan Lighter]

Update.



>From the season premiere episode of "Veep" a couple of weeks ago, watched
by "1.05 million viewers":


Teddy: Hey, big guy, how's it hangin'?

Jonah: Oh. Yeah. Like a strap-on in a porn dungeon. Rock hard and covered
in pussy juice.

. . .

Ben: We just gotta do a cock thumb.

Selina: A what? What did you just say?

Dan: A cock thumb.

Selina: What's that. Tell me. Do not show me!

Dan: Well, we propose a radical cut to the military - cutting off the cock.
[Points.]
The joint chiefs in turn propose their more reasonable cut - cutting off
the thumb. [Shows thumb.]

Selina: Commonly known as negotiating?

. . .

(OED lacks this specific "strap-on.")

JL

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 7:41 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> John Oliver on _Last Week Tonight_ (HBO) says nearly everything, as does
> the cast of _Veep_.  Neither show is bleeped.
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> But I can't recall hearing c**t, c**k, or p***y. These seem to be the last
> remaining verbal taboos. ("Pussy Riot," however, is fine everywhere.)
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> JL
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> > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> > wrote:
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> > > I don't know Adult Swim, but if you're talking Broad City and/or Amy =
> > > Schumer on Comedy Central--yeah, those young ladies pretty much say
> what
> > =
> > > the f... they want.  Of course on all the shows it's not so much what =
> > > they say but what gets and what doesn't get bleeped out; for lip
> readers
> > =
> > > (and that's basically all of us if we really try) pretty much anything
> =
> > > goes on basic cable anymore on at least some shows.
> > >
> >
> > Tosh.0 is semi-bleeped, as though they're using equipment from the '60's:
> > "dumb fuc#." After Chapelle, they don't bleep black people using "nigger"
> > anymore, which makes complete sense. Pryor was using "nigger" in front of
> > 99.44% white audiences from back in the '60's, at the Troubadour in
> > Hollywood, where I saw him *literally* "roll 'em in the aisles." You may
> > recall his '70's album, "That Nigger Is Crazy." Then, he got weird about
> > it, like Adult Swim, which doesn't bleep the Magic Word at all on "The
> > Boondocks," but it does on all other shows, irrespective of the putative
> > race of the character using it, especially if the show is live, like
> > "Loiter Squad" or "Black Jesus," The Eric Andre Show being an exception.
> >
> > I've also noticed that nobody sweats "nookie" and "twat," anymore,
> either.
> > I haven't heard "cock," yet, though, in the relevant meaning.
> >
> >
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