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Redacted is The Word
Posted by Chris G on 19 June 2009 - 8:20am.
It can't be a coincidence that since the editor of this pop music journal has been "a fellow traveller"* with the architect of New Labour since his late teens that he should have passed on design tips to the Government. So isn't the subscriber edition just an early example "redacting" being as it's so deliberately devoid of information?
* well they use to hang around rehersal rooms together.
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Sorry
Posted this in the wrong place, haven't I? Please ignore while I attempt to shift it.
not sure
how Hosskins's post connects to Chris G's but following on from the former - a friend told me when he was a child he was convinced that the moon was Australia.
I too only recently twigged about the spike on the ointment cap.
I had also been using a computer daily for years before I realised hitting the tab key moved the cursor to the next field.
oh
sorry - heh heh
Special Edition
...selected by popular vote, I do believe
Who had heard the word "redacted" before the expenses scandal?
As a man of reasonable intelligence I have to own up and say I had never heard of it and now its thrown around as though its been in common useage for years.
Brian DePalma
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0937237/
The only time I have heard the word used previously was in Brian DePalma's quite good Iraqi war movie of the same name a couple of years ago. Never since until now, but I've a feeling we'll hear it a lot more in future.
Sadly fairly common use in some quarters
Amongst young bloggers/ twitterers of an American persuasion it is often used to give 'tantalising' glimpses into their personal life, whilst giving the illusion of maintaining privacy.
For example, 'I had drinks with [redacted] last night, and he told me that since he'd broken up with [redacted] he can't stop thinking about me'.
There is a particularly irksome example here:
http://julia.nonsociety.com/lifecast/45976018-0-109-redacted
my detailed response is as follows :
I disagree
clearly we have significant differences here
We need an Inquiry
These events have have raised concerns about the probity of elected officials and severely undermined confidence in the institutions of government.
"A Public Inquiry - don't be silly. No, what we'll do is appoint some legal name or other,ambitious for a peerage, and get him to kick the leaves around a bit - and put the blame squarely on the media. You know like the War stuff. Maybe we can get the editor of the Telegraph to resign - like Greg Dyke had to.
By the way can you get The Guardian to do a sympathy piece on me - tell everybody how hurt I've been by people making fun of me. Ungrateful sods"