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Really? Even “Period” is Bleep-worthy?

May 19th, 2010 by Chris Bobel

Joan Rivers guests on talk showMonday morning: A friend tips me off that Joan Rivers’s on-TV use of the word PERIOD was bleeped! Yes, dear reader, somewhere, a censor deems even the innocuous euphemism for MENSTRUATION unsuitable for television.

Uh…speechless.

[You can view the clip at Jezebel.com, my friend's source for this sad information.]

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