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Jul 5th 2012, 10:33 am

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Re: The quality of new posters

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Originally Posted by jackthehat

It relates to the 'Old School' at the BBC. A guidebook was written which advised against any form of 'Sexual Innuendo.' The example given was 'Winter Draws On!'

Drawers, no?

Jul 5th 2012, 12:34 pm

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Re: The quality of new posters

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Drawers, no?

Draws/Drawers the inference is there in the innuendo

Jul 5th 2012, 4:45 pm

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Re: The quality of new posters

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Draws/Drawers the inference is there in the innuendo

But Jack, as you 'Well Know' the Importance of 'Getting it Right' in the 'Written Form' is So Important!

Jul 6th 2012, 6:35 am

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Re: The quality of new posters

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Originally Posted by Millhouse

But Jack, as you 'Well Know' the Importance of 'Getting it Right' in the 'Written Form' is So Important!

The BBC Green Book

Among things banned were jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind, suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, ladies underwear (e.g. ‘winter draws on’), lodgers and commercial travellers and the vulgar use of words such as ‘basket’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Var..._and_Producers