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Chris -- 2025-05-10
“If television couldn’t give a flying asterix about swearing, radio – the medium in which words matter most – still cares. Geldof Unbleeped came in a week in which the BBC announced a crackdown on foul language.”
F Word
By CAROLYN HITT
19 June 2006
The Western Mail
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F***ing annoying: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q= … erix&meta=
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Possbily too many people who read ‘Asterix the Gaul’ books by Goscinny and Uderzo?
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Indeed. Another result of that is that there are people who (and I haven’t looked this up just now) think that an “obelix” is a large stone.
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