Another example of the slightly counter-productive effect of prissily asterisk-ing out relatively innocuous words from news articles - here's a piece in the wake of Tiger Woods' latest car-related mishap. This one features an interview with David Duval, former world number 1 and apparently one of Woods' closer friends on tour during their brief period of serious rivalry between about 1997 and 2002. It's all fairly bland stuff, to be honest, carefully skirting round any speculation about Woods' intake of prescription (and indeed non-prescription) drugs or any future legal action, but does include this snippet:
Join me, if you will, as we mentally step through at least two words that could be in the asterisked place in the sentence, both of then considerably ruder than the "crap" that Duval presumably uttered, and respectively referring to items of female and male genital furniture.
Duval, incidentally, now plies his golfing trade rattling around mid-leaderboard on the lucrative PGA Champions Tour, where he's making a perfectly decent living thank you very much - $86,000 from five events so far this year despite his best finish being a tie for 14th at the Hoag Classic a couple of weeks ago. Nice work if you can get it.
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