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Watch your language!

This is not strictly-speaking on topic, but it’s so funny I just had to write about it. Today’s Globe and Mail has an editorial about a computer censor that got carried away with its task of inserting asterisks for strategic letters in naughty words - for example, s**t or “b*****d. But then the axe fell on Alfred Hitchc**k, and the British soccer team A***nal (Arsenal). 

The Mop and Pail suggests a few more candidates for sanitation - cockatoo and dicker - but perhaps our faithful readers can suggest a few more. Here are a few ideas to prime the pumps - b*****plate, b***on, tromb***r, embarra**, and ent*ty.