At that time, Duke students were receiving heavy television coverage for shouting obscenities at basketball games.

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Nor are reviews that contain obscenities, give away the ending, or refer to other reviews.

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Even with teacher supervision, obscenities can't be avoided, and are sometimes hidden inside other words, advocates argue.

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And Zimbabwe's Grant Flower was fined for shouting obscenities to the crowd in the third limited-overs international in Harare.

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No one wants to be the next Peoples Energy or Comcast, which both recently sent customer bills laced with obscenities.

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We will probably lose sight of all this, against the obscenities presumably from Gibson, and the collapse of his career.

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On settings aimed at its youngest demographic, the game only allows players to communicate using pre-set phrases, making obscenities or other inappropriate content impossible.

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Although public language has gotten coarser over time, many people in networks' audiences, including children, still bristle at hearing obscenities, said CBS and ESPN's Bill Raftery.

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In Atlanta, 1996, the USA asserted their dominance on home ground, with Andre Agassi crushing Sergi Bruguera, although the Las Vegan went close to being defaulted for obscenities in his quarter-final with South Africa's Wayne Ferreira.

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But the cavalier treatment of passengers left stranded by flight cancellations and the yelling of obscenities at people who, in sometimes tragic circumstances, make the mistake of asking for a refund have given Ryanair a deserved reputation for nastiness.

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