Alive, Alive-O! Inverclyde council in Scotland is proud of the bird life to be found in the inner Clyde estuary, which has been designated a site of special scientific interest. The council devotes a page of its website to the birds that live there or pass tough. The Clyde, it tells us, is the most northerly of the large west-coast estuaries in the UK that are used by migrating birds.

But there is a puzzle about this otherwise attractive and informative web page. A discussion of the feeding habits of the birds in the area contains this mystifying sentence: “Mussels and *bleep*les, the principal food source for scaup, goldeneye and eider, are found in large concentrations on Mussel Bank and *bleep*le Bank.”

It took Liam Anton, who discovered this, a while to work out what is going on here. At last he realised that the council's net censor software had been doing its dastardly work.

He wondered if there are other sections of the website devoted to methods of tackling *bleep*roach infestations, and whether councillors relax of an evening by telling each other *bleep*-and-bull stories over sherry in the council chambers.

----New Scientist, 9 April 2005, p. 80

the reason for this is all councils here in scotland have a net nanny to protect children in schools who use pc's, yes it dose mwan some things can go wonky when decribing parts of the area or habbits of wild life

The "Human Resources" departments of some corporations have been known to reject all applications which contain the phrase "cum laude".