Nursery Rhyme

[copippin]

Hi editor,In my question about the "House that Jack Built",I was directed to a website which gave me the rhyme in it's entirety no words starred out--presumably due to corectness of some sort---

How come it is alright for a rhyme to be reproduced as written,but I quote from it and the word ****--referring to the feathered variety-- has been starred out.It doesn't bother me that you have blanked it out but I do think it's taking things a bit too far. How would a farmer describe a male fowl if he didn't put "rel" on the end of **** ?

[kempie]

AnswerBank automatically censors every post to remove words which have been predetermined as possibly offensive. Sometimes the effect is to edit words which have these 'unacceptable' words contained within them or even to remove words which in another context are entirely harmless.

That having been said, when you link to pages on external sites, the content is no longer under the control of AB and so the full text is available to view no matter if the content is in contravention of AB's terms & conditions.

[copippin]

Point taken.I shall have to think of some inocuous way to describe the male "Hen"! ball ---- for the toilet cistern,and when passing the opinion that something is a ---- and bull story!! Thanks for the answer.

[BigDogsWang]

You could try c0ck?