• niktemadur@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Curious, in contrast I remember when they aired A Fish Called Wanda (that was a long time ago), they censored John Cleese’s response to one of Otto’s inarticulate verbal insult streams:
    “How very interesting… you’re a true vulgarian, aren’t you?”

    …so as to not offend… people from Bulgaria, I guess? They might confuse the V with a B, then write strongly worded letters to the head of network programming?

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      4 hours ago

      Vulgarian sound like “vulva.” It was probably that weak similarity to dirty, evil sex that got the line cut.