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To: nopardons
" BANNED IN BOSTON " is NOT just some old band...it was what the city of Boston did to certain books, plays, and movies. They were far from the ONLY places in the USA to have such a code.

Reminds me of the episode of M*A*S*H where BJ and Hawkeye saw a story in the Boston Globe where the movie The Moon Is Blue was banned, and tried like hell to get it screened in the mess tent. In the end, as usual, they ended up being made a fool of when they convinced a lowly clerk to exchange the label of the State Fair with the Moon Is Blue, while Colonel Potter had connections with another Colonel to get The Moon Is Blue. The movie started, and the camp was treated to State Fair. LOL

157 posted on 02/03/2004 5:29:30 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (All Our Base Are Belong To Dubya)
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To: BigSkyFreeper
I had forgotten that episode. LOL

Do you know WHY "THE MOON IS BLUE" was banned in some cities and considered " shocking" ? For one word......." pregnant ", being uttered. That's it; that's what the fuss was all about; that and the fact that the woman who said it was not married. No, she wasn't pregnant, she just said the word.

170 posted on 02/03/2004 12:28:47 PM PST by nopardons
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