Hooray for expletives!

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14 December 2000 at 08:02
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The award for the most gratuitous use of offensive language is jointly held today. The Broadcasting Standards Commission wins for publishing their annual list of Britain’s rudest words, but credit should also be given to The Register, who went ahead and published it. If that doesn’t upset the search engines, nothing will. Channel 4 News attempted to cover this story a few nights ago, but as the programme goes out before the infamous watershed their video-wall demonstration was somewhat baffling. Imagine Jon Snow, and behind him his thirty-foot video wall displays simply ’Motherf*****’.

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