Tomorrow the cinetrix and the Fesser set off for The City That Care Forgot to attend a baccanal wedding. So if you see us on the Internets after tonight, tell us to go out into the world to find some Sazeracs or beignets.
Owing to the vagaries of modern air travel, we won't return until late Sunday night, thus increasing the likelihood that I will still be underslept and underhydrated for Monday's 9 a.m. class. So I've asked the kiddies to read and be ready to discuss the Hays Code, and I thought I would share some of its wit and wisdom with you nice people, too.
V. Profanity
Pointed profanity and every other profane or vulgar expression, however used, is forbidden.
No approval by the Production Code Administration shall be given to the use of words and phrases in motion pictures including, but not limited to, the following:
Alley cat (applied to a woman); bat (applied to a woman); broad (applied to a woman); Bronx cheer (the sound); chippie; cocotte; God, Lord, Jesus, Christ (unless used reverently); cripes; fanny; fairy (in a vulgar sense); finger (the); fires, cries of; Gawd; goose (in a vulgar sense); "hold your hat" or "hats"; hot (applied to a woman); "in your hat"; louse; lousy; Madam (relating to prostitution); nance; nerts; nuts (except when meaning crazy); pansy; razzberry (the sound); slut (applied to a woman); S.O.B.; son-of-a; tart; toilet gags; tom cat (applied to a man); traveling salesman and farmer's daughter jokes; whore; damn; hell (excepting when the use of said last two words shall be essential and required for portrayal, in proper historical context, of any scene or dialogue based upon historical fact or folklore, or for the presentation in proper literary context of a Biblical, or other religious quotation, or a quotation from a literary work provided that no such use shall be permitted which is intrinsically objectionable or offends good taste).
I'd like to hear that last parenthetical set to music.
