<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by renila:
Another example of censorship is Rainman - Dustin Hoffman's famous speech about Quantas being the only airline not to have a crash is completely left out of the airline version - so you're left wondering why the brothers decide to drive across the country...</font>
Nowadays they could have just driven to Louisville and flown Southwest to LAX. Would have made the movie less interesting, but perhaps Hoffman's character could have multipled everyone's boarding pass numbers together or something....
Twenty-nine and thirty, the first group, the first group, definitely the first group
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by hnechets:
(3) However, airlines, corporations, et. al., ARE. For instance, it is perfectly acceptable in most European nations to use the word "penis" in a sentence. It is also, techincally, perfectly acceptable to use that word in general conversation here. BUT, do it in a corporate environment, and you are gonna get some funny looks.</font>
I generally agree with this statement, but most TV stations did use the word
penis when covering the Lorena Bobbitt story. I mean, what other word could you use?