Ashcroft’s name substitutes for obscenity in movie

Richard Leiby

Washington Post

Feb. 24, 2005 02:41 PM

WASHINGTON – You’re an Ashcroft! No, you’re the Ashcroft! Imagine hearing that exchange in a movie – you’d think that Hollywood had come up with a crazy new insult. Well, it turns out that some airline passengers watching the Oscar-nominated film “Sideways” on foreign flights are, in fact, hearing “Ashcroft” as a substitute for a certain seven-letter epithet commonly used to denote a human orifice.

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Justice. Sweet. Poetic. Justice. (Unlike what that ashcroft Ashcroft dispensed in his 4 boob-fearing years as head mullah in the Ministry of Freedom.)