Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Bowlderizin' in the Bunker

Someone wants us to bowdlerize our fashion.  Reminds us of when  Ashcroft wanted to cover the statutes of justice.    

tr.v. bowd·ler·ized, bowd·ler·iz·ing, bowd·ler·iz·es
To remove material that is considered offensive or objectionable from (a book, for example).

[After Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare in 1818.]

bowd'ler·ism n., bowd'ler·i·za'tion (-lər-ĭ-zā'shən) n., bowd'ler·iz'er n.

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