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Old 03-18-2004, 05:43 PM   #1
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That is truly astounding. Dildo-fungus has just become my new favorite word.
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Old 03-18-2004, 05:52 PM   #2
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"you unimaginable, crappy cock-licker. "


yeah. I bookmarked it.
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Old 03-18-2004, 06:13 PM   #3
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How much traffic can your server bear Alan?
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Old 03-18-2004, 06:20 PM   #4
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How much traffic can your server bear Alan?
My site is hosted with a big hosting company (DreamHost), so the server can handle a huge load, but I do have bandwidth limitations to consider if you were thinking of Slashdotting or Farking the link... plus, it's still a work-in-progress at the moment.
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Old 03-20-2004, 12:22 AM   #5
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From the "coincidence" department"
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From Yahoo News
Cuss Words of the Stars Revealed!
Fri Mar 19, 4:35 PM ET
By Kimberly Potts

Seven-second delays, canceled TV appearances and a general crackdown on risqu content has been the name of the game for U.S. television since Janet Jackson (news) introduced her boob to the world during the Super Bowl.

But in the U.K., a controversial commercial is taking things in the opposite direction. The new Channel 4 ad, originally filmed to play in theaters, features a slew of TV stars--some British but most Yanks from such U.S. series as Scrubs, The O.C. and The Sopranos--answering the question, "What is your favorite expletive?"

And the answers...well, they'd make George Carlin proud.

A sampling:

The O.C.'s Adam Brody, Mischa Barton (news) and Peter Gallagher (news) all agree on the F-bomb.
So do The Sopranos' Jamie-Lynn DiScala and Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose (news).
So do The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver and The Osbournes' Ozzy, Sharon and Jack.
So do Nip/Tuck star Julian McMahon (news) and The West Wing's John Spencer (news).
And then there's Scrubs funny guy Zach Braff (news). His favorite expletive is actually a string of naughty words that, for the sake of retaining our PG-13 vibe, we can only translate as "#@*&!, !*&@#$%%%, *&%#@, %$@**&%-licking %$#@@^&&!"

In short, Braff covered most of Carlin's infamous "seven words you can't say on television" and may have even thrown in a couple George forgot about.

The 90-second clip--which also features West Wing-ers Bradley Whitford (news) and Richard Schiff (news), The Sopranos' Drea de Matteo and Aida Turturro (news), Six Feet Under's Peter Krause (news) and Mathew St. Patrick (news), Scrubs stars Sarah Chalke (news) and Judy Reyes (news) and British TV host and comedian Graham Norton--is composed entirely of celebs uttering curse words, including %$@#!, ^%#$@ and, of course, %@#@#$.

If the ad, or "advert" as it's called in Britspeak, seems like one big excuse to show a bunch of TV stars being potty mouths, that's because showing a bunch of TV stars being potty mouths is exactly the point.

Channel 4 execs originally intended to showcase the ad in movie cinemas, accompanying Quentin Tarantino (news)'s Kill Bill: Vol. 2. But the Cinema Advertising Association (CAA), which oversees the "standards of cinema advertising" in England, rejected the spot, and Channel 4 began broadcasting it instead on FilmFour, the network's independent film channel.

"We can understand...why the CAA felt they had to turn it down. It does contain the highest number of expletives ever featured in an ad as far as we're aware," Channel 4 marketing honcho Bill Griffin told the Yorkshire Post. "We're delighted to be able to play it out on the FilmFour channel and confident hat it will be received by subscribers in the spirit in which it was intended."

Another spokesperson for Channel 4, which broadcasts British series as well as American-made shows like Friends, Sex and the City and Without a Trace, told the newspaper that the network had so far received "diddly squat" in the way of viewer complaints. But a U.K. media watchdog group leader is attacking the ad.

"I think this ad is disgraceful. Channel 4 should grow up; they are using it to generate controversy and publicity for a minority film channel," Mediawatch-uk director John Beyer told the Post. "This obscene language causes great offense and is calculated to cause controversy."

Duh. An ad created just to cause controversy? Consider this a story created just to give you an excuse to watch the controversial ad. Just point your browser to www.channel4.com/ads/index1.html and don't tell the FCC
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Old 03-20-2004, 12:52 AM   #6
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I am truly disappointed. At one time bravotv.com had a list of everybody's answer's to the Pivot questionnaire from Inside The Actor's Studio, but that seems to have been taken down.

The above article reminded me of it.
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Old 03-20-2004, 09:59 AM   #7
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IIf anybody has any fun suggestions for this thing, let me know.
Actually, I heard an excellent expletive used as a term of endearment at work, and I think that your generator is the perfect place for its use. How about adding the term "cunt blister"?
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