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  • He once quit, on the air, after discovering that NBC censors trimmed a faintly off-color joke (it included the term W.C., or water closet, a Brit euphemism for bathroom) from a show.

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2009

  • He once quit, on the air, after discovering that NBC censors trimmed a faintly off-color joke (it included the term W.C., or water closet, a Brit euphemism for bathroom) from a show.

    unknown title 2009

  • He once quit, on the air, after discovering that NBC censors trimmed a faintly off-color joke (it included the term W.C., or water closet, a Brit euphemism for bathroom) from a show.

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2009

  • Parrish says, imitating McCallion's voice, which she describes as W.C.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Jennifer Yang 2010

  • It was in the late 70s, and I was in Berkeley producing a movie called W.C. Fields and Me.

    Jay Weston: The Best New York-Style Pizza in L.A. -- Vito's! 2010

  • One of them, William Claude Dukenfield — better known as W.C.

    You Eric Felten 2010

  • To paraphrase W.C. Fields: Every man needs to believe in something -- I believe I'll have another ice-cold beer.

    Chris Weigant: Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality 2009

  • I hummed a few bars of “Lovely to Look At” and picked up the phone to call W.C. Fields.

    Dancing in the Dark Kaminsky, Stuart 1996

  • Also, regarding public drunkenness in the USSR, recall W.C. Fields 'famous admission, "[we] have been known to take a drink or two."

    A Satisfied Author Faith, Carl 1979

  • Their claimants, named Hughes & Knight, were indicted for defamation of character, in calling W.C. a slave, and brought before a magistrate.

    The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 American Anti-Slavery Society

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