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* ''Fanfic/BurningSecret'': Downplayed – Luna calls the blackmailer a "lowlife piece of sh!t".
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* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E78OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]", when Officer Flannagan chastises Woodrow Mulligan for walking in the street and nearly being hit by a horse and carriage, the first word in the intertitle is represented by a star, an exclamation mark, an asterisk and a lightning bolt.

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* ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E78OnceUponATime "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E13OnceUponATime Once Upon a Time]]", when Officer Flannagan chastises Woodrow Mulligan for walking in the street and nearly being hit by a horse and carriage, the first word in the intertitle is represented by a star, an exclamation mark, an asterisk and a lightning bolt.
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--->'''Goat:''' Little Bo Peep has lost her [[IncrediblyLamePun sheet]].

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--->'''Goat:''' Little Bo Peep has lost her [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} sheet]].
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* In ''VideoGame/CrystalCastles'', Bentley the bear followed in Q*Bert's footsteps by uttering "#?!" when his last life was lost.

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* In ''VideoGame/CrystalCastles'', ''VideoGame/{{Crystal Castles|1983}}'', Bentley the bear followed in Q*Bert's footsteps by uttering "#?!" when his last life was lost.
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Over time, people have come up with various handy ways to insert swearing, or at least the recognition of swearing, without setting off the Censor Alarms. One of the oldest and easiest ways to do this -- besides just slapping a black censor bar over the text and leaving the details to the reader's fertile imagination -- is by inserting random %&$#?@! symbols. This method of censorship has been seen in newspaper comics from the beginning, making this trope [[OlderThanRadio Older Than Radio]]. Traditionally they include characters that don't exist on a keyboard -- stars and other astronomical objects, clouds and lightning bolts, skulls and bombs are all classic parts of this symbology -- but basic ASCII will do in a pinch. While a single bout of swearing may be represented by only one set of symbols, it's more common for a variety of different things to be mixed together in a single speech balloon.

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Over time, people have come up with various and pretty [[SelfDemonstratingArticle &@&#$^(#]] handy ways to insert swearing, or at least the recognition of swearing, without setting off the Censor Alarms. One of the oldest and easiest ways to do this -- besides just slapping a black censor bar over the text and leaving the details to the reader's fertile imagination -- is by inserting random %&$#?@! symbols. This method of censorship has been seen in newspaper comics from the beginning, making this trope [[OlderThanRadio Older Than Radio]]. Traditionally they include characters that don't exist on a keyboard -- stars and other astronomical objects, clouds and lightning bolts, skulls and bombs are all classic parts of this symbology -- but basic ASCII will do in a pinch. While a single bout of swearing may be represented by only one set of symbols, it's more common for a variety of different things to be mixed together in a single speech balloon.
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