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* "Did you know Stuart Adamson?" "He was a Big Country member." "Oh, I remember."
** This is derived from the original comment in Australian Federal Parliament by early 1970's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam in response to an angry outburst by a member of an opposing party (Country Party - now the Nationals half of the Liberal/National Coalition): "I'm a Country Member!" Gough Whitlam - "Oh, I remember".
* In a particularly obnoxious possible example, University of Colorado football players have reportedly called [[Jackie Robinson Story|teammate Katie Hnida a cunt]] while [https://web.archive.org/web/20130120120809/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/writers/rick_reilly/02/16/hnida/ brutally hazing her]. When CU president Betsy Hoffman was later called on the carpet to explain why the coach wasn't fired, she responded that "cunt", in Chaucer's times, was a term of endearment and perhaps that's what the players meant. [[wikipedia:Cunt#Referring to women|Really.]]
* Probably apocryphal example doing the rounds:
{{quote|'''Australian sovereigntist''': We're going to have our own independent state and call it the Principality of Australia!
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** In Hispanic Latin America, "Coño" is one of these words that are way too rude for TV and radio (on some places not even in shows after the [[Watershed]]), but not so much for other media and daily use, where it has degenerated as an all around expletive and, in some countries, as a synonymous of "dude". The local synonymous for the word tend to be seen as more rude if used in the same way. Bafflingly, in Spain, where "coño" is still used in its original sexual meaning along with the expletive one, [[Media Watchdogs]] doesn't have such a hangup.
* In fulfilling its guiding purpose, Cockney Rhyming Slang has a completely innocuous way of saying it, Berk, which comes from Berkshire Hunt, rhyming with cunt. Now you know a way to say it without anyone knowing, providing no one around you speaks Cockney...
* [[Jane Fonda]] was appearing in a benefit production of the above-mentioned ''[[The Vagina Monologues]]'', and while being interviewed about it on ''Today'', casually mentioned on live daytime tv the title of one of the pieces. Meredith Viera apologized on behalf of NBC, and it was censored for broadcast in later time zones. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150822080032/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/14/nbc-apologizes-for-jane-f_n_86686.html
* Western Australia had the unfortunately-named [[Fun with Acronyms|Curtin University of New Technologies]] (The "new" has now been dropped, probably for this reason).
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