On Oct 4, 2006, at 2:06 PM, John Francis wrote: > Quite. I'm often amused when a TV character with a British accent > (such as Spike, in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") says "Bugger off", > or the like - it appears to be a loophole in the great American > puritanical broadcast TV vocabulary rules.
Yes, because most Americans don't know the meaning, I suppose. In the recent movie Pirates of the Caribbean:Dead Man's Chest you will hear Captain Jack Sparrow use "bugger" frequently. It didn't even get the movie an R rating. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
