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Life’s too short for crapppy coffee!
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There will be a few surprises along the way, all good ones, we hope.
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Pie fights will be met with outrageous ridicule and insults. Trolls will be incinerated and served at the next group BBQ. As briquettes.
Never drink crapppy tea, neither!
Why do we say that?
bowdlerise means to remove material that is considered improper or offensive from (a text or account), especially with the result that the text becomes weaker or less effective. Euphemisms, my dears!
In 1807 Thomas Bowdler published his first edition of “The Family Shakspeare” – he liked to spell the Bard’s name that way. The book contained 24 versions of Shakespeare plays, all with words, expressions and sometimes even plots changed to be more “family friendly.”
You can read more at the link above, and here are a few samples of his “editing’’:
in Hamlet, the death of Ophelia was no longer a suicide, but referred to as an accidental drowning.
In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth’s famous line, “Out, damned spot!” read instead, “Out, crimson spot!”
In all plays “God!” as an exclamation was replaced with “Heavens!“
In Henry IV Part 2 Doll Tearsheet (a prostitute) was omitted from the story entirely.
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