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** The Song of Songs, or Song of Solomon, is perhaps the raciest book in [[The Bible]]. However, even this version may have been [[Bowdlerized]] from the original, For instance, in the selection where the lover describes his beloved, he says her waist is like a heap of wheat. Given that this breaks the order of the narrative, many Biblical scholars believe that the original translation referred to a different part of the female anatomy.
** And there was an interesting variation on removing certain parts of the Bible: the [[wikipedia:Wicked Bible|Wicked Bible]]. Said word was "not", which gave us the awesome seventh commandment: "Thou shalt commit adultery." Sure, they claimed it was an accident, but [[Viewers Are Horny|given the subject matter]]...
* [[Terry Pratchett]] canceled plans for a movie of ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'' when the producers told him they loved the story (about {{
** That makes me die a little inside.
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** From what I know, the company which did that was most likely Disney. Go figure.
* More [[Terry Pratchett]] examples:
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