[MD] Here come the censors

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Ron]
careful,
The Oxford English Dictionary records a more forceful variant, "to 
call a spade a bloody shovel", attested since 1919.
The phrase predates the use of the word "spade" as an ethnic slur, 
which was not recorded in usage until 1928; however, in contemporary 
U.S. society, the idiom is often avoided due to potential confusion 
with the modern racial slur.

[Arlo]
And yet Platt accuses me endlessly of supporting speech codes and 
censoring language. Go figure.

But your correction in the first line is valid, from now on I will 
try to remember to use "call a spade a bloody shovel". :-)