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Thank God We Don't Work in Britain

Despite everyone's whining about the FCC's regulating of Janet Jackson's nipple, dirty words, and the like, we writerly types (don't worry, we use that term loosely) should thank whomever's in charge that we don't have rules like they do in Britain, as today's Guardian reports:
Publications that call people "basket case", "nutter", or "schizo" could be breaching the Press Complaints Commission code of practice, the watchdog warned today.
Then again, they didn't say anything about the use of the word "retarded," so maybe we'd be safe. More »

5:05 PM on Wed Nov 22 2006
By Doree Shafrir
57 views, 7 comments

Latest by GaryGnu: They seem fine calling someone a "twat" though. Although I guess it sounds better when it rhymes with cat than when it rhymes with cot. Those wacky Brits. more »

new york times

Foul-mouthed President Drags Family Newspaper Into 20th Century

Our Lexis/Nexis account has expired, so we're not one hundred per cent sure, but it looks like this is one of the first times The Times has used the word "shit" in its pages. (Or on its screens; maybe they prefer to use the web to work blue.) The occasion, of course, came during a conversation between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair, which the president did not know was being transmitted over a live mike: More »

3:16 PM on Mon Jul 17 2006
By abalk2
392 views, 20 comments

Latest by Trackback: For the second time in a year, the New York Times today prints the word "shit." The word appears in a quote from an anonymous message left on the answering machine of Elliot Spitzer's father: "There is not a goddamn more »