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

Sat Feb 17 12:22:19 UTC 2018

There is also a fairly frequently-produced play based on Chekhov's The Seagull, called, varyingly:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/29/theater/review-stupid-bird-is-chekhov-for-the-21st-century.html

and

https://www.theatreanddanceatwayne.com/bird/

which is seen on posters all over our campus.

Interestingly, the Wikipedia entry does not censor the title:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stupid_Fucking_Bird

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The series is indeed named The End of the F***ing World. It=92s based on a =
British graphic novel named The End of the Fucking World. The graphic novel=
 has been reprinted in the United States under the cover title TEOTFW, alth=
ough in the interior the words are spelled out.

John Baker

On Feb 16, 2018, at 8:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU<mailto:l=
aurence.horn at YALE.EDU>> wrote:

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There=92s apparently a Netflix original series that earns a perfect 100 Rot=
ten Tomatoes score and that may or may not be titled =93The End of the F***=
ing World=94. I don=92t know if that=92s a bowdlerized (or, since it=92s Br=
itish, bowdlerized) version of its actual name, or if that really is its ac=
tual name, ***s and all.

LH

> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:33 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu<mailt=
o:laurence.horn at yale.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM<m=
ailto:wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
>>
>> Why doesn't anybody say "friggin'" anymore?
>>
>> When I was in college, with my skin-clad paleo friends, it was still a
>> frequent alternative.
>>
>> It's been ousted by "fricking," for no obvious reason.
>
> And, lest we forget, =93freakin=92=94
>
> LH
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu<=
mailto:laurence.horn at yale.edu>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Checking the web, it seems like =93I=92m f=97ing scared right now=94 is=
 an
>>> alternative rendering of Minoff=92s tweet, along with =93I=92m [expleti=
ve]
>>> scared=85=94, =93I=92m **** scared=85=94, =93I=92m ___ing scared=94, an=
d (from Time) =93I=92m
>>> f=97king scared=85=94. Arguably, unlike =93shithole countries=94, this =
is not a case
>>> in which the taboo item is necessarily germane to the news story. Some =
web
>>> stories embed the actual quote with =93I=92m fucking scared right now=
=94 and then
>>> gloss it in the text of the article as =93I=92m f=97ing scared right no=
w=94, e.g.
>>>  http://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/nation-world/<http://www.bellingha=
mherald.com/news/nation-world/>
>>> national/article200145234.html
>>>
>>> LH
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Feb 15, 2018, at 12:48 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM<mailto:hwg=
ray at GMAIL.COM>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Freshman Aidan Minoff live-tweeted the shooting from inside the classr=
oom
>>>> where he was hunkered down with others. "My school is being shot up an=
d I
>>>> am locked inside. I'm _=85_ scared right now," he wrote.
>>>>
>>>> My school is being shot up and I am locked inside. I=92m _fucking_ sca=
red
>>>> right now. pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGNb<http://pic.twitter.com/mjiEmPvGN=
b>
>>>>
>>>> =97 Aidan Minoff (@TheCaptainAidan) February 14, 2018
>>>>
>>>>  www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting-<http://www.latim=
es.com/nation/la-na-florida-school-shooting->
>>> 20180214-story.html#nt=3Dtertiarynavbar
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> -Wilson
>>>> -----
>>>> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint t=
o
>>>> come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>>> -Mark Twain
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