Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Don't Say Fat, Say This

The classic children's book by Roald Dahl, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," twice made into a hit movie -- the first starring Gene Wilder and then Johnny Depp -- has been heavily edited, or more accurately censored by its British publisher, Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Random House. 

Among the changes, the gluttonous boy Augustus Gloop is no longer described as "enormously fat." He is now just "enormous." And a "fat little brown mouse" is now a "little brown mouse."

So if you know someone who is a big fat fatty but you can't say so, just call them enormous. Apparently that word is still allowed. Also, move to another planet since the whole world is now engaging in rampant censorship. What's next?

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