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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:52:06 -0500
- Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET>
- From: "David L. Boucher" <FAC2445@UOFT01.BITNET>
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- > >PS- What exactly is the point where the descriptive becomes obscene?
- >
- > If it helps any, I personally judge by the rule "Would they allow this
- > to be said on prime-time US network TV without <bleep>ing it?"
-
- That seems like a pretty good rule of thumb to me.
-
- Incidentally, I recently noticed that the bleeping practices for
- Canadian TV are somewhat different from those in the US. I was watching
- a movie that was being shown simultaneously on independant stations in
- Detroit and Toronto. The movie made liberal use of a certain 12-letter
- four-syllable expression that begins with the letter "m". The Detroit
- station bleeped only the last two syllables of this expression, but the
- Toronto station bleeped only the FIRST two syllables. I suppose this
- might reflect a difference in judgement as to which part of the word
- is more obscene... shades of "Brave New World"... ;)
-
- - xenon
-