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Following up on last night's indecency ranting -- I noticed that VH1 Classique is showing bowdlerized versions of at least some videos. The ones I've caught so far are "Laid" by James (now "she only hums when she's on top") and "Living on the Ceiling" by Blancmange (now "up the t-t-tree" instead of the original "up the bloody tree"). I wasn't aware the "bloody" was offensive enough to anyone to be looped out. Then again, what the hell do I know from offensive? On the top row of my bookshelf rest all of the Anastasia Krupnik books. And we all know what they're like...

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Bloody? Please. Blancmange? Double please. Perhaps if Neil Arthur really did have a stutter, which I'm not aware he did. Or maybe if the word was 'Belgium.' (Note gratuitous HHGG reference.) I'm reminded of the radio version of Pink Floyd's Money, in which the line was not 'do-goody-good bullshit' but 'do-goody-good ballteam,' which makes about as much sense as..., well, it makes no sense at all.

alltime best indecency looping EVAH = "melonballer" from the cleaned up version of Repo Man

actually to my recollection, on the video version of "living on the ceiling", on the second go round, he sings I'm up the F**king tree! This is probably why vh-1 looped it out.

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