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October 23, 2002

Right. Asking questions. Why didn't I think of that?

Tom Tomorrow was also a bit puzzled by that quote from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about tweaking the language of the Boondocks strip.

Luckily, one of his readers tried something utterly unprecedented.

Update from reader Dwight Brown:

After reading the entry in your weblog concerning the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution's "tweaking" of "Boondocks", I read the original
article and sent an e-mail asking for specifics on the circumstances of the
"tweaking." I also asked if Mr. McGruder knew of the change. Here is the
response I received:

From: "Inside"
To: "Dwight Brown"
RE: Tweaking?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:52:45 -0400

We edited out a vulgarity and replaced it with dashes so that the meaning
would be clear but without the word itself. Yes, Mr. McGruder knows

Vulgarity?

Ok, I'm drawing a blank on that one. Unless you count "dang."

Might have been a "hell" in one strip. . .

Anyone got any ideas? Since it's much more fun to speculate wildly than for me to email the editor and ask what, specifically, got changed?

Posted by Aaron at October 23, 2002 12:59 PM

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