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** Another Disney Theme Park example: the face character version of [[Atlantis the Lost Empire (Disney)|Kida]] is actually shown there in a long flowing dress instead of in a bikini and a sarong like in her movie (in the actual film, that dress only appeared in the ending).
* In 2007, Goldman Sachs were selling selling securities they knew were bad and, more or less, betted against those securities. An email from Goldman senior executive, Tom Montag, was brought up at a Senate hearing. In his email, Montag remarked of the Timberwolf I security, "[B]oy, that timeberwof [sic] was one shitty deal." Senators Carl Levin and Susan Collins proceeded to refer to these securities as "shitty deals." Every newscast covering the story [[Countdown With Keith Olbermann|except one]] bleeped the word "shitty." In order to prevent this from ever happening again, Goldman Sachs put up a email filter that blocks swear words.
* General of the Armies<ref>Note the plural; this is technically the American Army's highest rank, though it's never been(nor is it likely to be) held by someone on active duty. It was invented specifically so they could posthumously promote George Motherfucking Washington so he'd hold a higher rank than any active-duty general.</ref> John "Black Jack" Pershing, who's original nickname now requires [[N
* When Japan was originally opened to the West, there came a serious interest among Western intelligentsia for Japanese literature and mythology. What they got didn't always sit well with them--in particular, the "Kojiki", perhaps the most important collection of Shinto stories. The way in which Izanagi and Izanami created the gods and islands of Japan {{spoiler|(sex)}} was far too vulgar for the Victorian audience, and was excised from the first English-language translations.
* That picture of the ''David'' statue with the boxer shorts on the main page? It was clearly done in jest, but something like that actually happened. A plaster cast of the statue was made as a gift to Queen Victoria, and since this was one of the more prudish times in history, they felt that male nudity might offend someone, so a plaster fig leaf was made to use [http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/d/davids-fig-leaf/ during the Queen's visits.]
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