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* '''Piss''' - It's hard to tell when exactly it started, but this word is perfectly acceptable on TV now and has dropped all the way down to the PG tier, at least in a figure of speech ("piss[ed] off", meaning annoy[ed]).

** Oddly enough, it's in the King Jimmy Bible, multiple times. E.g., "him that pisseth against the wall" and "Are they not doomed with you to eat their own filth and drink their own piss?" Mark Twain had fun with this one.

*** Yeah, but -- FUN FACT! In the era in which the bible was translated, "piss" was the common way to say it. The rudeness comes apparently just from the dislike of the class of the person who would use it. So...if you look at it another way, it should be very odd that this word is disliked in today's society.

'''Producer''': Oh, yeah! You can say fuck! Got to sell it to the thirteen-year-olds, after all. }}

* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'' has a similar bit, with slides showing the words that can no longer be used on the program: B*m, B*tty, P*x, Kn*ckers, Kn*ckers, W**-W**, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Semprini]].

*** '''''OUT!'''''

* Inverted on ''[[Myth Busters]]'', where Adam rattles off a list of numerous synonyms for "shit" that the producers ''will'' let them use, in their test of the adage: "You can't polish a turd". (Yes, both "shit" and "turd" were bleeped out.)