reason times was about comedians trying to get as close to that profane word as they could without getting arrested. wc fields, a pretty ornery guy, found a great way to swear without swearing. instead of he would say drat. when he said that, you would know what he was really saying. godfred daniel. and that was his way of swearing. the rules laid down about what you can get away with in movies were already archaic, you couldn t refer to sex or swear. we ll write down everything do you during the day. we ll allow so much time for each thing. ten minutes for this, 15 minutes for that. i m going to need more than 15 minutes for that. sexual inwend over is saying it without saying it.