Awwwe, that sucks about Spaceballs because they take out one of my favorite lines. The part where they are "combing" the desert and they are asking if they have found anything yet. "Nope. Nothing here." Then they get to the guys with the hair pick and he says, "We ain't found SHIT!" They way he says it cracks me up every time. And you won't get to see it
Oh hey, you can see it here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMfasIbOn1g
As for the OT question, I guess this:
BlindTom said:
All censorship is weird censorship.
I had a teacher back in high school that would say "vomit" as an expletive instead of shit. Because shit was a "bad" word and vomit wasn't. So it would be less offensive. But I and some friends thought that this had the opposite effect. We thought that saying vomit all the time rather than shit was more bothersome (if at all). Because nobody else used the phrase "Oh vomit," and "oh shit" is a very common phrase they convey a different message and impact. Shit is so commonly used as an expletive that when I hear it I more often think "something bad happened, someone made a mistake, got hurt, etc." (which is the relevant meaning and intended information to be conveyed), and less often I think "someone is talking about a steaming pile of feces" (which is the original meaning of the word). So when my teacher would say "oh vomit" it would evoke thoughts of gross immagery in my mind, because that's what the word vomit refers to, a foul smelling soupy puddle of chunks of halfdigested food mixed in with bile, or the action of puking and spewing out such contents, splashing it on the floor. So ironically by the very usage of "shit" as a "bad" word, it actually becomes less offensive than the attempts at censorship that use "not bad" words to replace it.
