[Ads-l] How the Los Angeles Times deals with obscenity

[Jonathan Lighter]

When I was in high-school, one of my brow-ridged, skin-clad classmates knew
a jolly witticism. He'd ask, "What's 3q + 1q?"

Get ready to laugh. When you'd say, "Four q," he'd say, "You cussin' me
out?!" Then he'd feign a punch to your mouth.

Humor's golden age.

JL

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> Then there’s “fork”, popularized in (and possibly limited to) the world of
> “The Good Place” (NBC-TV), as in “what the fork(?)"
>
> LH
>
> > On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:11 AM, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> >
> > << Frak or frack is a fictional version of "fuck" first used in the
> > 1978-Battlestar Galactica television series. It continues to be used
> > throughout different versions of the Battlestar Galactica franchise as a
> > profanity in science fiction. >>  -----Wikip
> >
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