Language use in the forums

[Marky_D_Sahd]

Well Tarnation!  I can't even use some flibberty-gibbit curse words here anymore???That's a dang fool policy to institute!  I don't know one darned poster here who hasn't blown his cotton-pickin" gasket at someone or other and called him a rectal sphincter (including you, Wayne.)(Except for Billsey). Looks like the whole place is going to heck.  And what about those $*&()!!! X?**#@% who use $*#@*$ characters and punctuation to relace their $%?!!*$ filthy words, like they do in the $%#)**&@? comic strips?  Or those people who like to puzzleize their verbage by ommitting every d_mn_d vowel?  Will this no longer be tollerated as well?
What a flaming crock.
I'm signing the heck off now and getting back to my own whiffing place.

(P.S.  The questions were real, but the comment was light.  I agree with your policy, and know that I have overstepped the bounds on at least one occasion and had, what I thought was a light-hearted thread erased.  But this is not my page.  I am a guest here, and I really do respect the host's authority to make the rules and enforce them.  And I would rather be seen as a good guest than an unwelcome parasite.  Thanks, Wayne.) :-)  :-)  :-)

[Marky_D_Sahd]

Tigger wrote:

SlimJim wrote:
So the R is the highest rating (not allowed for anyone
below 17), whereas X and NC-17 are actually somewhat
milder (not allowed for kids under 17 but allowed when with
parental supervision)?

No, the last three (though technically X does not exist anymore)>

R - "Restricted" noone under 17 admitted without a parent or adult guardian  

NC17 - Noone under 17 admitted  (Very view films are released with this rating, though DVDs with this rating as director cuts are fairly common these days.

X - The old name for what now is NC17, its got very negative history at this time for its use in porn, however one of the first films to get this rating was the 1933 King Kong which had to have several scenes of Kong devouring people removed for the films release in order get a more mild rating.   The film these days would probably get a PG-13 (ie same as Jurrassic Park 3).
    -Tig

 --I love the taste of crunchy natives.
          -K.  Kong

Tig!  I am surprized at you!  You are usually a fount of incontrovertable knowlege and research, but this time, you're wrong!
King Kong was never threatened with an "X" rating!  It couldn't have been because the ratings system didn't begin in the United States until the late 1960's.  Kong DID face censorship, both from the newly established Hays Office, and from the Catholic Church and the Kennedy Family, who could (and did) get films "Banned In Boston" even after the ratings system was established.  The original ratings were:
"G," "M," "R." and "X".  "M," for "Mature," was later changed to "PG," "Parental Guidence," because people thought that "mature" movies were pornography.
The "PG-13" rating was added in the 1980's because of the movie "Indiana Jones and the Temple Of Doom".  After its release as a "PG" film (because nothing in it fir an "R" rating), parents complained that "PG" was not sufficient to warn parents that a scene of a man's beating heart being ripped from his chest was coming.
King Kong also had to remove a few scenes of Kong using Fay Wray's top as a PlayStation controller.  (See, now, dad-burn it Wayne!  I'm trying to keep this consarned thing clean!)