# Television people in the know- why the weirdo delays?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-people-in-the-know-why-the-weirdo-delays/87967>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 17, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-people-in-the-know-why-the-weirdo-delays/87967 "2001-10-17T13:26:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drum\_God](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drum_god/32/44_2.png) [@Drum\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drum_God)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2001, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-people-in-the-know-why-the-weirdo-delays/87967/21 "2001-10-23T22:43:02Z")

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> \*Originally posted by kpm \*  
> \*\*Some guy is selling a box that he says will edit out “bad” words on the fly - he is religious and that is why he is selling it. I guess you stick it between your cable box or satellite box and TV set. I don’t know if he gives you a list of the words it blanks out. \*\*

Has George Carlin heard about this???

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**Author:** ![Drake\_Christensen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/96bed5/32.png) [@Drake\_Christensen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drake_Christensen)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2001, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/television-people-in-the-know-why-the-weirdo-delays/87967/22 "2001-10-24T02:03:47Z")

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Are you sure it stretches the show out? When I’ve heard people bleeped on radio there’s just a several-second silence as the host+engineer disconnect the caller and make sure that everything he said is blanked. IOW, it doesn’t jump. They just live with a few seconds of dead air.

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