Asterisks - Classic or Dud?

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y'know, when ppl are SWEARING!

should publications plump for the asterisks, or not?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:41 (twenty years ago) link

CLASSIC^*

^*dud

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:50 (twenty years ago) link

Only classic in the @#*! combination (cause that's my tattoo).

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link

Shit, for a brief moment I thought this was about Asterix.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

classic!

http://www.rawbw.com/~delman/images/asteroids.jpg

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link

haha "including Susan B. Anthony coin slot"!!!

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:54 (twenty years ago) link

http://membres.lycos.fr/delanicos/images/asterix6.gif

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:55 (twenty years ago) link

I was about to say, there can be only one.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

The Asterix record is just ok. I like the first Lucifer's Friend record much more. Hated Lawton in Uriah Heep though.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 18:58 (twenty years ago) link

cl*ss*c

― rosemary (rosemary), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link

http://www.asterix-obelix.nl/images/home/intro-obelix.gif

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 19:23 (twenty years ago) link

where is the tatoo, Tep, on the @#*!, the #*!@ or the %@#! ?

― pieceoplastic (pieceoplastic), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

I think asterisks are lame (as are dashes), but I understand the limitations of a lot of mainstream publications. Probably better to be able to at least suggest the words than not to report them at all.

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 22:53 (twenty years ago) link

*shrugs* ;-) *flounces off*

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 1 July 2003 23:25 (twenty years ago) link

b-but some mainstream publications don't use them. When did the Guardian stop using them? What about the other papers? I think the Telegraph still uses them.

The NME using them stopped some time between the last printed copy in my possession (from 1993) and yesterday (when I looked at the website). That's assuming they don't still use them in print but not online - if a publication had that policy it would be significant in itself.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:02 (twenty years ago) link

"using them stopped" - by which I mean stopped using them, obv.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:04 (twenty years ago) link

dud.

― g**ff c*nn*n (gcannon), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:06 (twenty years ago) link

Well Ol' Dirty Bastard's title 'N***a Please' is close to classic, just cos he used the asterisks in the official title in the knowledge he had to or something... or was too mental to change the title, maybe. It's funny, that's all. I quite like the practise.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:10 (twenty years ago) link

they are little stars! they make cuss words twee! how can you hate on the asterisk?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

I am not so hot on this tweeness twend

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link

I can't deny it, though. And it may be a good thing, I'm still voting C.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 14:59 (twenty years ago) link

Twee Dirty Bastard!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:00 (twenty years ago) link

I don't have no trouble with you cuddlin me, but I got a little problem with you not cuddlin me.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 2 July 2003 15:02 (twenty years ago) link

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