So, putting aside her scatological excess and testicular obsession, does she have a case?

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They simply ran up to the altar and while jumping around screamed out profanities and scatological abuse at the faith, its clergy, and those within.

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Yet, pandering no doubt to a new editor, Mr Shoumatoff also loves to talk dirty, and can spend paragraphs on the scatological Spanish of the border country.

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Mr Cela's novels contain implicit criticism of Franco's Spain, and his love of the scatological and erotic was an affront to the moralistic conventions of the day.

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The government cheerily dubs the brew newater, and despite a tide of scatological humour, insists that it is cleaner than the stuff that used to come out of the tap.

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This is not to excuse Merrill Lynch's analysts, and especially not the cloddish e-mails that they sent, employing scatological language to abuse companies whose merits they were touting so ardently to investors.

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Even scatological-humor adverse viewers dub the video funny.

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He transformed the assured grandeur of the likes of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning into something much more irritable, sexual and dirty, and he swapped their rich fields of painted colour for the scored, scatological marks of graffiti.

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Vikram was his usual scatological self.

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