On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 06:29:26AM -0400, Bob Shell wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:06 PM, John Francis wrote: > > > Quite. I'm often amused when a TV character with a British accent > > (such as Spike, in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") says "Bugger off", > > or the like - it appears to be a loophole in the great American > > puritanical broadcast TV vocabulary rules. > > Yes, because most Americans don't know the meaning, I suppose. In > the recent movie Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest you will > hear Captain Jack Sparrow use "bugger" frequently. It didn't even > get the movie an R rating.
Then, of course, there's always the opening sequence of "Four Weddings and a Funeral". That did get an R rating, but I suspect that was more because of it's treatment of homosexuality than because of the language. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
