Subj : Language
To   : Daryl Stout
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Feb 14 2021 19:16:00

Hello Daryl Stout!

** On Tuesday 02.02.21 - 06:19, Daryl Stout wrote to August Abolins:

 DS>   There was a movie with Jimmy Stewart, and this female
 DS>   housekeeper said she was resigning because he swore at
 DS>   her. All he said was that he was going to get some sun on
 DS>   the beach. <G>

Mr Hobbs Takes a Vacation?  I wasn't even in school yet when  
that came out in theatres.

I enjoyed the Looney Tunes.  The Roadrunner always perplexed me  
and I (as a pre-schooler and early grader) could never  
understand the joke in the Latin subtitles at the beginning of  
each episode when they would stop the scene and post something  
in fake Latin.  Only decades later as an adult after getting a  
VHS tape of Looney Tunes hit shows, did I finally "GET IT".

In Hitchcock's North By Northwest (the one with a confrontation  
that ends on Mt Rushmore), Hitchcock wanted to push the limits  
on censorship and have some kind of love scene at the end of the  
film that implied more than the usual fair. The censors said no  
to his material. So, Hitchcock placed the "lovers" on a train,  
and after a few quips of innuendo, the final scene is the train  
entering the tunnel.  Apparenty, the censors couldn't say no to  
that!  <g>  And by some stretch of the imagination, the message  
may have been even clearer.
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  ../|ug

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