Date:  Thu, 27 Apr 1995 10:10:14 -0500

From:  Natalie Maynor <maynor[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]RA.MSSTATE.EDU>

Subject: Bounced Mail



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> Date:     Thu, 27 Apr 1995 08:29:53 -0400

> Subject:   ADS-L: error report from EM.COM

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> The enclosed mail file, found in the ADS-L reader and shown under the spoolid

> 0742 in the console log, has been identified as a possible delivery error

> notice for the following reason: "Sender:", "From:" or "Reply-To:" field

> pointing to the list has been found in mail body.

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> Date: 27 Apr 1995 08:13:12 -0500

> From: "Marjorie Shustak" <mshustak[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]em.com>

> Subject: Re: Anodyne Expletives and

>

>     Reply to:  RE>>Anodyne Expletives and TV police dramas

>

> Tim, what does the Hill Street Blues cop's Jewishness have to do with his use

> of euphemistic epithets?

>

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> Date: 4/27/95 4:08 AM

> To: Marjorie Shustak

> From: American Dialect Society

> I have an impression that the strictures on offensive speech that

> govern American television might have been very productive in the

> 1980s of a new burst of euphemistic language. I don't remember

> ever hearing words like scuzz bucket, scumbag, rat-breath, and so

> forth before Hill Street Blues, which attempted to create a tough,

> vulgar, 'realistic' street atmosphere without using any of the

> seven (?) outlawed words. There was one character in particular,

> Belcher (Belker?) -- the short, inarticulate, onion-eating, Jewish

> cop who growled as often as he spoke -- who came out with these and

> many other relatively euphemistic epithets. Andy Cszypowitz (?) of

> NYPD Blue continues the tradition today, though with relatively fewer

> constraints than the pioneers of the early 80s had to work under.

>

> Does anyone else share this impression of the late blooming of a new,

> harsher, euphemistic vocabulary of insult? Or did I just grow up too

> much in the gutter, and it wasn't until getting away from the

> projects that I encountered this softer, middle lexicon of prime time

> vituperation?

>

> Tim Behrend

> University of Auckland

>