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

[Wilson Gray]

Did anybody actually check the URL and look at the original source? My post
actually has an interesting point to make, when you've seen the original,
y'all.

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:36 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> > skin-clad
>
> Remember when those participating in track and field were called
> "thin-clads"?
>
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 5:30 PM, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What does skin-clad mean, other than having skin? BB
>>
>> > On 16 Feb 2018, at 14:25, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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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> -Wilson
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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