[mythtv-users] 'Censoring' decoding 'bad' words off of Closed Captioning
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Sat Apr 8 00:06:01 UTC 2006
On Apr 7, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:22:01PM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
>> Of course I believe it. I find the gratuitous "bad" language that
>> some producers seem to think will increase ratings often detracts
>> from a show.
>
> I'm going to interject here.
>
> It's not necessarily gratuitous. *Real people swear*. The earliest
> example of a producer realizing this was Glen Larson, on the original
> Cattlecar Overactica, when he observed that there was *no way* you
> were
> going to have a carrier full of fighter pilots who didn't, and
> invented
> his own, so he could get away with them on 70's network television.
I would not consider that "gratuitous, but a lot of what's on the air
is.
>
> And anyone who thinks that no one ever swears... well, that's a
> load of
> felgercarb.
My favorite Cattlecar-ism was "How close are they ??" asked the
Captain, "15 Microns" he replied.
I would say that if the enemy was that close it was pretty well all
over.
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