Bowdlerise/Real Life: Difference between revisions

* Important officials have often had quotes bowdlerized by those reporting on them (for face-saving purposes, most of the time).

** John Nance Garner IV, a Vice President of the United States under Franklin Roosevelt, once described the office (as reported) as "not worth a bucket of warm spit." The word he really used was "piss", and (according to [[That Other Wiki|TOW]]) he "once described a writer who quoted it this way as a 'pantywaist'."

* While it's a general rule that race horse names can't be changed once a horse has started, exceptions have been made when the name was found to be unsuitable after the fact. Heesaputz raced for several years before the Jockey Club discovered that "putz" means "penis" in Yiddish, so they asked the owner to change the name. Heesaputz became Samuel Alan. Similarly, Heart On became Heart One due to a double entendre, and Columbine Is Sad became Dake after the Columbine shootings. The funniest example was Liquor In Excess. That name was vetoed by the Jockey Club due to a double entendre, so it was changed to Censored.

* A rather funny one from the UK, a council in [[Oop North|Yorkshire]] attempted to rename a local land mark from ''Tickle Cock'' to the rather less funny Tittle Cott and were [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|forced to change it back]] by the Elderly residents committee (usually the [[Moral Guardians|demographic that forces]] these changes). Read the story [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7263162/Tickle-Cock-Bridge-returned-to-original-name-after-row.html here].