Ashcroft's name substitutes for obscenity in inflight-movie

[Cocoa]

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0224Ashcroft-ON.html

Richard Leiby
Washington Post
Feb. 24, 2005 02:41 PM
WASHINGTON - You're an Ashcroft! No, you're the Ashcroft!

Imagine hearing that exchange in a movie - you'd think that Hollywood had come up with a crazy new insult. Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film "Sideways" on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing "Ashcroft" as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice.

The Post's Monte Reel, based in Buenos Aires, tells us he heard the former attorney general's name substituted at least twice in "Sideways" dialogue when he watched the film earlier this week on an Aerolineas Argentinas flight to Lima, Peru. The movie was shown in English and the dubbing was done "in the actual voices of the actors," Reel reports. Star Thomas Haden Church utters the A-word.

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(I also chuckled at the photo they chose to go with this story. Looks like Ashcroft is posing with a goose.)

[madinmaryland]

1. I like that!!

hahaha.

Let the Goose Soar!

[Califooyah Operative]

13. haha. nt

[genieroze]

2. I can see the connection. lol eom

[merwin]

3. What a fitting substitution!

[ET Awful]

4. LMAO

You're such an Ashcroft!

[ashmanonar]

34. dem's fightin words, boy...

:D

[coreystone]

5. Isn't that movie produced or distributed by FOX??? I remember ...

a quick line of credits at the beginning "Fox News "?" "Corp.?"...

Then toward the end when the part of Giamatti is trying get the wallet back, he enters the bedroom where the sexually graphic representations were much more explicit than with this guy doing his wife than I would ever think that FOX would be connected with.


:-)

[TahitiNut]

10. Fox Searchlight Pictures was one of the production companies ...

... as well as the US theatrical distributor. Twentieth Century Fox was a distributor in the US as well as most other countries.

[SomewhereOutThere424]

40. it's too bad

Foxes are some of my favorite animal, it's too bad they had to go and attribute them to such things that station does. I get mixed reactions when I think of 'fox' now, heh.

As for ashcroft, I find it funny. All of his ranting about profanities and he'd become one. I bet he thinks he's saving the world by replacing his honorable self with them...when inadvertantly he's become the next F*** you.

[hvn_nbr_2]

6. Perfect! You Feithing Ashcroft!

How many other substitutions can we come up with?

Son of a Bush.
Bushtard.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Go Cheney yourself!!

:evilgrin:

[King Coal]

8. Let the goose soar, like he's never soared before

[hvn_nbr_2]

29. I keep thinking... that goose, Ashcroft, Photoshop...

Somebody good with Photoshop ought to be able to something fun.

[Anakin Skywalker]

32. Goose Step, Too?

That's what A$$croft and his followers do!

[Zinfandel]

9. Do people really have a problem saying or writing the word ASSHOLE on this

"progressively liberal" forum?

Man, how sad, we've gone backwards a long ways baby...Thank you Asshole Ashcroft!!

Just a fucking word...

[NNN0LHI]

12. Shhhh. Hush your mouth. Gonzales is watching

Please don't tell him I think his voice sounds like Micky Mouse with a Texas accent either.

Don

[Anakin Skywalker]

31. I Use that Word But

with $ in place of the S to signify/remind that most of the rightist $cums are corporate a$$holes.

[meganmonkey]

11. Oh, a Friday laugh - just what i needed!

This is priceless.

Nominated!

[chiffon]

14. What the Ashcroft are you talking about? LMAO

Now, this is just toooooo funny.

[fishwax]

15. lol ... how appropriate

thanks for sharing this. :D

[Lisa]

16. Son of a Bush! I can hardly wait to hear ...

...what those ashcrofts in the White House say about this!

[tridim]

17. What about nudity?

Will they digital replace the naked bodies with Ashcroft's lovely Republican body.. "Riddled with Flabitis", to quote Nixon's head in the year 3000.

[Roland99]

21. Draped in curtains.

[Nickster]

18. Bunch of dirty Ashcrofts. I love it! LOL

[Mr_Spock]

19. that's beautiful

just beautiful...

[Misunderestimator]

20. Oh THAT is PERFECT! Wonder how soon "Ashcroft" will be banned from use.

Bwaaahaaaahaaaa! I could kiss whoever arranged that!

[EFerrari]

22. Could be worse. He could be singing with the goose :) n/t

[NuttyFluffers]

35. Goosed in the Ashcroft....

yes, it fits. remarkable. .... oo-er... oh dear.

[progressoid]

23. Wonder of Alexander Payne had any say in that?

He seems like one of them librul creative types

[underpants]

24. That is hilarious

ASHCROFT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kadie]

25. ROFL n/t

[donheld]

26. So what's the problem?

It all sounds perfectly logical to me.

[old blue]

27. This is an INSULT to assholes everywhere!!!! n/t

[stlsaxman]

28. Hope they include that version in the "extra scenes" portion of the DVD...

n/t

[old blue]

30. Hey, make sure to put your next post in a religion thread

[Catamount]

33. That is too funny!!!

[buddysmellgood]

36. Bush you. Bush off. Go Bush yourself you motherbusher.

[Uncle Roy]

37. Didn't Gore Vidal do something like that in one of his novels?

Maybe Myra Breckenridge? The names of various Nixonian anti-porn judical nominees were substituted for the names of various human body parts and an assortment of human activities that might be deemed "offensive to community standards" in all those communities out there where no one ever has sex.

So Myra lovingly caresses Rusty's swollen Rehnquist with one hand and fondles his Powells with the other, while, gently thrusting, she starts to Burger him with the enormous rubber... Well, my glasses have steamed up, but you get the idea!

[GetTheRightVote]

38. This is just to funny though it does fit

:kick:

[annabanana]

39. what a nice giggle to start Saturday with!.......n/t