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Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 5, 2012—bowdlerize

Posted on 12/05/2012 4:10:08 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree

Word For The Day, Wednesday, December 5, 2012—bowdlerize

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

bowdlerize [bohd-luh-rahyz, boud-]

hear it pronounced

verb (used with object), bowd•ler•ized, bowd•ler•iz•ing
to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.

Origin: 1836, from Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who in 1818 published a notorious expurgated Shakespeare, in which, according to his frontspiece, "nothing is added to the original text; but those words and expressions omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in a family."

Related forms
bowd•ler•ism, noun.
bowd•ler•i•za•tion, noun.
bowd•ler•iz•er, noun.
un•bowd•ler•ized, adjective.

Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the Word for the Day in a sentence.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day.

Practice makes perfect.....post on....




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The President’s attempts at bowdlerizing The Constitution have, sadly, been rather successful.

To prevent further grade inflation, I have re-scaled the curve. The highest grade will be A+++.

No pushing at the door please!

1 posted on 12/05/2012 4:10:19 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree
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To: xsmommy; secret garden; VRWCmember; Slip18; SoothingDave; Texan5; NicknamedBob; ...

Here you go, early birds!
If anyone wants on (or off) the PING LIST, please let me know.


2 posted on 12/05/2012 4:11:42 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

He has literally bowdlerized the Declaration by removing references to the Creator.


3 posted on 12/05/2012 4:41:18 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: MrB
A++

gold

Good morning. You are the first to visit our classroom this morning.

4 posted on 12/05/2012 4:48:33 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

2! Morning, haven’t decided if it’s good or not yet....


5 posted on 12/05/2012 4:58:05 AM PST by tioga
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Bowdlerize

Noooo problemo. Take a big piece of rock and break it up into bowdlers. Also the name of a city in Colorado, Bowdler.

That’s bowdlerize.


6 posted on 12/05/2012 5:05:52 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: tioga
silver

So far, it's as good a morning as we're going to get until we elect a capitalist to the highest office in the land.

7 posted on 12/05/2012 5:07:12 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

I bowdlerized my own work once. I hated the result.

It was more offensive than the “offensive” material that was expurgated.

My reactions were an education on their own.


8 posted on 12/05/2012 5:08:38 AM PST by NicknamedBob ("P" for present, "C" for coal, right, Bernard?)
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To: count-your-change
A++

bronze

Your puns are bolder than most, to my eyes.

9 posted on 12/05/2012 5:12:41 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: NicknamedBob

A++
Whenever I see an R-rated movie edited for network television, I have to laugh when a stone killer’s words are changed to “gosh darn” from Rev. Wright’s favorite expression.


10 posted on 12/05/2012 5:22:55 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Bullfeathers


11 posted on 12/05/2012 5:25:08 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

The NHL network bowdlerized the Caps-Penguins 24-7 series for TV, and the result was hysterical. Bruce Boudreaux’s string of F words was even more hilarious as bleeps.


12 posted on 12/05/2012 5:25:53 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

A++
There was a similar video on former Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda, who was reknowned for his ability to put the F-word before, after, and even between words. Un-freaking-believable!


13 posted on 12/05/2012 5:30:16 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: xsmommy; TruthShallSetYouFree
"The NHL network bowdlerized the Caps-Penguins 24-7 series for TV, and the result was hysterical. Bruce Boudreaux’s string of F words was even more hilarious as bleeps."

I always thought R2-D2's communication skills were inexplicably deficient. Then I realized that as a repair robot, he was using salty language to disparage the idiots who kept breaking his bairns.

It all makes sense, now.

14 posted on 12/05/2012 5:34:34 AM PST by NicknamedBob ("P" for present, "C" for coal, right, Bernard?)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Bowl derize season.


15 posted on 12/05/2012 6:44:55 AM PST by NeoCaveman (SMOD 2012)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

My grandpa’s old round black hat was too large for me ...

And when I put it on my 4 year old grandkids, it fell down bowldereyes ... and they couldn’t see out.


16 posted on 12/05/2012 6:54:49 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: NeoCaveman

A++
There are a lot of interesting matchups, particularly Notre Dame vs. Alabama.


17 posted on 12/05/2012 7:00:42 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Don’t forget West Virginia - Syracuse.


18 posted on 12/05/2012 7:06:11 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
A++

I gave my grandkids a haircut using a bowl; dere eyes were barely visible. (I can't take much Moe of dese puns.)

19 posted on 12/05/2012 7:53:03 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (July 4, 1776: Declaration of Independence. Nov 6, 2012: Declaration of Dependence. R.I.P. America.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree; xsmommy

Interesting perspective.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/334824/bargaining-and-its-limits-yuval-levin

The Democrats want to raise revenue and the Republicans want to reform entitlements. Those goals would seem to be easily reconciled — just do some of each, or even lots of each. But it only seems that way because we don’t often think about why the parties want these things. Simply (and surely somewhat too simply) put, the Democrats want more money so that the entitlement system doesn’t have to be reformed, while the Republicans want to reform the entitlement system so that the government doesn’t have to take more of the country’s money or take up even more of the economy. That means that doing some of each, let alone lots of each, doesn’t give both parties what they want, it gives both parties what they are desperately trying to avoid.


20 posted on 12/05/2012 8:32:09 AM PST by SoothingDave
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