Hilarious link from Farber’s Interesting People list:
It seems some of the Brits are rather amused at the goings on recently at the FCC. One of the BBC channels has been running a very, very funny R rated advert. Channel Four International (C4i) asked a number of US and UK film and TV stars what the favorite swear words were — and to say them out loud (and they do). What follows is a 2 minute melange of famous faces saying, amongst other things, bloody, wanker, bollocks and bugger — it is England, after all — and an awful lot of other swear words you’d recognize in the U.S.
It’s worth reading the rest of the article for insights into why such a seemingly inane commercial was ever made. The article also has a link to the actual commercial. This is your first warning that the commercial is definitely NOT work safe due to the language.
Along these lines, I just heard a humorous bit by George Carlin on the Tonight Show. He was noting the apparent contradiction where publications won’t use certain words due to fear of offending their readers, but instead will simply replace part of the offending word with asterisks. As George notes, everyone knows what is meant; why the charade? Don’t they like the letters u and c?