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

Sat Feb 17 19:38:26 UTC 2018

> On Feb 17, 2018, at 7:22 AM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
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> 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
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> https://www.theatreanddanceatwayne.com/bird/
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> 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
> 

Maybe not, but I’m partial to the way the title appears in the second of these links that includes the seagull’s contribution--two expletives (if we count “birdshit”) for the price of one.

LH

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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
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> 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:
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>> 
>>> 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
>>>>> -----
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