When you can’t swear on-air, try punctuation

A Toronto viewer who goes by the name qsharp spotted this unusual caption on CBC Newsworld. I suppose sometimes words just aren’t enough…

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	Email this	Posted at 2:37 pm (12 Feb 2008)

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In future, perhaps we might consider random letter-glyphs from multiple writing systems as well?

-- Dwight Williams

Please tell me that this was ’shopped.

-- InsideR

not shopped. i saw it live on air myself.

-- sunshine

nope, not a photoshop, I saw this caption on air as well, It was a Friday morning the week before last and I was a bit disappointed to see such an immature comic-strip punctuation used on our National Broadcaster’s news service… oh well… CNN used the "word" "preggers" in a caption a while ago… Who makes these decisions anyways?

-- paf

Preggers? Please be kidding. Are we turning into the Toronto Sun?

-- Klaatu

Lighten up, all y’all . . who really give a !#@% anyway?

-- Swiv

I hope not. It has its place in the market, but its formula needn’t be duplicated elsewhere in the Canadian news services.

-- Dwight Williams

i’m with them #@^%$& winter!

-- sam

nothing wrong with a little profanity ever once in a while, especially when its that %#!@’n cold out!

-- Mike

I agree with Swiv…..I saw it and thought it summed up the situation quite nicely. It was everyone was thinking.
ej

-- erma johnson

FYI, I was responding to "Klaatu" re: their Toronto Sun comment. As you might have already guessed from my first post in this thread, I’m with Swiv on this one.

How about that multi-writing system version of typewriter cussing, anyway? Anyone planning to try it? :-)

-- Dwight Williams

I just checked it on Volicon
1229 pm Feb 1 2008

Nancy talking to Ian Black in Ottawa.

-- Christian Weller

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