Ozy And Millie: The Hayes Code
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Ozy and Millie
Wisdom for short attention spans.
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well… fart whistle!!
My old English teacher was the grandson of the Hayes who developed the Hayes code.
What’d he say?
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(Dang. Didn’t work.)
Of course one question worth asking is, “And how much did the overall quality of script writing improve in the long run after this convention was broken?”. š
“improve”?
It improved negative 1,000,000,000 fold.
That question led to a pregnant pause… and that thought to the simple truth that a lot of words not used then have nothing to do with the words they put in today.
WKRP in Cincinnati had a character fired once for saying “booger”.
What the fudge-sicle?
I read that the name for the confectionary fudge came from what was said when somebody tried to prepare a different type of confection and it failed miserably.