History Bowdlerise / RealLife

* When Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson was dying at the Battle of Trafalgar, he said "Kiss me, Hardy", Hardy being the captain of the ship he was on board, and the de facto fleet commander with Nelson in his condition. Apparently this was far too homoerotic for school children, so certain sources relate his words as "Kismet, Hardy". Which completely ignores the fact that Hardy did kiss Nelson (on the cheek) and Nelson's response to the kiss (and his final words to the man) were [[strike:"God bless you, Hardy".]] [[QuiteInteresting "Drink, drink. Fan, fan. Rub, rub."]]

* Before Thomas Bowdler got a reputation one would have refered to this trope as the ''castration'' of stories.

* General of the Armies[[hottip:*:Note the plural; this is technically the American Army's highest rank, though it's never been(nor is it likely to be) held by someone on active duty. It was invented specifically so they could posthumously promote George Motherfucking Washington so he'd hold a higher rank than any active-duty general.]] John "Black Jack" Pershing, who's original nickname now requires NWordPrivileges.

* An unacknowledged, but widespread, term used off-the-record by biologists to describe otherwise-monogamous birds which engage in covert extra-pair copulation, or male animals (salmon, cuttlefish, etc) that use deceptive coloration and behavior to approach females without the dominant male noticing them, is "[[spoiler: sneaky fuckers]]". Not something you'd ever see in a ''Nature'' article, but notations of "SF" turn up in a lot of field notes.

* ThisVeryWiki no longer "wants" a trope page for ''Lolita.'' [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Make of that what you will.]]
** To be more specific: commands from the advertising that keeps the site afloat mandates that ThisVeryWiki either eliminate trope pages for more sexually explicit works or find new (much less family friendly) sources of funding. A number of works the sexual explicitness of which is debatable then get caught in the mass deletions.

* An unacknowledged, but widespread, term used off-the-record by biologists to describe otherwise-monogamous birds which engage in covert extra-pair copulation, or male animals (salmon, cuttlefish, etc) that use deceptive coloration and behavior to approach females without the dominant male noticing them, is "sneaky fuckers". Not something you'd ever see in a ''Nature'' article, but notations of "SF" turn up in a lot of field notes.

* An unacknowledged, but widespread, term used off-the-record by biologists to describe otherwise-monogamous birds which engage in covert extra-pair copulation, or male animals (salmon, cuttlefish, etc) that use deceptive coloration and behavior to approach females on the sly when a dominant male is out of view, is "sneaky fuckers". Not something you'd ever see in a ''Nature'' article, but notations of "SF" turn up in a lot of field notes.

* An unacknowledged, but widespread, term used off-the-record by biologists to describe otherwise-monogamous birds which engage in covert extra-pair copulation, or male animals (salmon, cuttlefish, etc) that use deceptive coloration and behavior to approach females on the sly when a dominant male is out of view, is "sneaky fuckers". Not something you'd ever see in a ''Nature'' article, but "CF" turns up in a lot of field notes.

* An unacknowledged, but widespread, term used by biologists to describe otherwise-monogamous birds which engage in covert extra-pair copulation, or male animals (salmon, cuttlefish, etc) that use deceptive coloration and behavior to approach females on the sly when a dominant male is out of view, is "sneaky fuckers". Not something you'd ever see in a ''Nature'' article, but "CF" turns up in a lot of field notes.

** Another Disney Theme Park example: the face character version of [[Disney/AtlantisTheLostEmpire ____]] is actually shown there in a long flowing dress instead of in a bikini and a sarong like in her movie (in the actual film, that dress only appeared in the ending).

* The discontinuation of lingerie for {{Barbie}} dolls in the late 2000s.

* In 2007, Goldman Sachs were selling selling securities they knew were bad and, more or less, betted against those securities. An email from Goldman senior executive, Tom Montag, was brought up at a Senate hearing. In his email, Montag remarked of the Timberwolf I security, "[B]oy, that timeberwof [sic] was one shitty deal." Senators Carl Levin and Susan Collins proceeded to refer to these securities as "shitty deals." Every newscast covering the story [[CountdownWithKeithOlbermann except one]] bleeped the word "shitty." In order to prevent this from ever happening again, Goldman Sachs [[CompletelyMissingThePoint put up a email filter that blocks swear words]].

* That picture of the ''David'' statue with the boxer shorts on? It was clearly done in jest, but something like that actually happened. A plaster cast of the statue was made as a gift to Queen Victoria, and since this was one of the more prudish times in history, they felt that male nudity might offend someone, so a plaster fig leaf was made to use [[http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/d/davids-fig-leaf/ during the Queen's visits.]]

** Yeah, this is the same company that has a name that makes you think of old man testicles.
** Only if you're a pervert.

* General of the Armies[[hottip:*:Note the plural; this is technically the American Army's highest rank, though it's never been(nor is it likely to be) held by someone on active duty]] John "Black Jack" Pershing, who's original nickname now requires NWordPrivileges.

** Ronald Reagan, after finally pushing legislation through Congress permitting the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US/Saudi_AWACS_Sale sale of AWACS to Saudi Arabia]] (the Congress and the general public were strongly against it), said, "Thank God!" according to his Deputy Chief of Staff. What he actually said, according to someone in the room, seems more in line with his personality: "I feel like I've just crapped a pineapple."