Getting Crap Past the Radar/Literature: Difference between revisions

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* The most noted example might be ''[[Animal Farm]].'' Designed to be a criticism of Communism, it had great difficulty finding a publisher, largely because of fears it would undermine the [[World War II]] alliance between the US, UK, and Soviet Union. If it had been written "straight," it might not have been published; as an allegory about farm animals, it could slide by.

* ''[[Where's Waldo]]?'': Cartoonist Martin Handford hid his titular hero amongst massive (sometimes absurdly so) crowd scenes in which so many unusual events were taking place that you had to look carefully to make out the guy in the striped shirt and ski cap (which was the point of the book). Many of the events depicted were ridiculous or bizarre, and several of them were controversial inclusions for a book aimed at kids ages 6 to 14: [[The Nudifier|a vacuum cleaner sucking a woman's dress off of her body]], [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|a man graphically vomiting]], and [[Groin Attack|another guy getting accidentally hit in the nuts]]. One of these sneaky scenes was so subtle that you might not even notice it: a boy at the beach teases a bikini-clad beauty by placing the cold end of his ice cream cone on her back, causing her to bolt up from a prone to a semi-prone position; unless you're looking closely, you might not notice that the girl has loosened her bikini top so as not to get tan lines while sunbathing, and she's about to expose her bare breasts to the world.

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** Also later in the book the Toad says "shoap". And the Nac Mac Feegle's favourite: "Crivens!" As well as their "Pisht", which one of Tiffany's more "proper" witch teachers is ''assured'' means "tired".

** There's at least one instance of literal crap.: in ''Men at Arms'' Detritus the troll (who are made out of stone) uses "coprolith" (fossilised turd) instead.

*** And in the same book, Detritus also gives us "In Anhk-Morpork even der ''shit'' gets a street to itself. Truly dis is a land of opportunity."

** There's also Lance-Constable Sally Von Humpeding's real name -- aside from the "von ''Humpeding''" in the first place, her first name is ''"Salacia"''. There is ''no possible way'' that wasn't deliberate.

** Outside of [[Discworld]], ''[[Only You Can Save Mankind]]'' makes passing reference to Johnny's nickname being "Rubber". This looks like just a random bit of absurdism if you don't know [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rubber+johnny what a "rubber johnny" is.]

* One of the characters in Stanley G. Weinbaum's 1934 classic ''A Martian Odyssey'' is named "[[Bilingual Bonus|Putz]]". He also [[Have a Gay Old Time|ejaculates]] in one scene.

* During [[The Forties]], writers for science fiction magazine ''Astounding'' made a game of getting dirty references past bluenose assistant editor Kay Tarrant. George O. Smith succeeded with a reference to a tomcat as "the original ball-bearing mousetrap".

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Star Beast]]'', written for what would now be called the young adult market, stars John Thomas Stuart XI, latest in a series of custodians of the titular alien pet. In the end, it is revealed that {{spoiler|the pet is a) female, b) royalty, and c) considers the Stuart line to be ''her'' pets.}} Heinlein managed to get away with writing of Lummox's "hobby of {{spoiler|raising John Thomases}}".

*** In the previous book, Hera refers to Percy as "one of Posideon's... [[Last-Second Word Swap|children]]". Percy comments that it's pretty obvious she had a different word in mind.

* In [[The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio]] there is a surprisingly realistic description of human trafficking without ''quite'' describing what was [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|intended for the heroine]].

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