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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:09 PM
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"You're an Ashcroft! No, you're the Ashcroft!"
Edited on Fri Feb-25-05 12:10 PM by Lex
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Let the expletives sooooar. Like they've never sooooared before . . .

:D

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Ashcroft's name substitutes for obscenity in movie

Richard Leiby Washington Post
Feb. 24, 2005 02:41 PM

WASHINGTON - You're an Ashcroft! No, you're the Ashcroft!

Imagine hearing that exchange in a movie - you'd think that Hollywood had come up with a crazy new insult. Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film "Sideways" on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing "Ashcroft" as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice.

The Post's Monte Reel, based in Buenos Aires, tells us he heard the former attorney general's name substituted at least twice in "Sideways" dialogue when he watched the film earlier this week on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Lima, Peru. The movie was shown in English and the dubbing was done "in the actual voices of the actors," Reel reports. Star Thomas Haden Church utters the A-word.


http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0224Ashcroft-ON.html



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Kota Donating Member (658 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:11 PM
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1. Perfect substitute, they mean the same thing.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 12:13 PM
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2. That is too funny!
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:15 PM
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3. Supposed to be a good movie too.
I'll have to watch it now for sure.

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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:17 PM
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4. WTA???
How the Ashcroft did this happen?

:evilgrin:
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Spike from MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:27 PM
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5. It's nice to see that the Bush administration has succeeded in
breaking through the language barrier by creating an international language that everyone can understand.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-25-05 02:30 PM
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6. HAHAHAHA!!! Maybe there will be justice after all!
:D

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