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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 392784" data-attributes="member: 23">Meanwhile, back in the original Judge Judy series, I&#039;ve just watched an episode in which a man sued a former friend for a dental bill after he was punched. He claimed the altercation took place in July but, when asked for a dental bill, produced one from December - almost six months later.Judy told him she would need to see a bill from immediately afterwards to show that his damaged teeth were caused by the incident in July. The man said he had not attended because he&#039;d waited until his next routine appointment. The back and forth between Judy and the plaintiff became increasingly heated until she volubly snapped at him:I don&#039;t know who laughed harder: the extras in the audience, Byrd or Judy herself.Incidentally, this episode featured one of most twee and unnecessary acts of censorship I&#039;ve ever seen when the defendant claimed the plaintiff had sworn at his wife. When Judy asked what was said, the defendant&#039;s wife said she had been told:The above sentence is verbatim, so - unless the plaintiff was Ned Flanders - the witness was presumably self-censoring. All the same, on the airing I watched the words &quot;hell&quot;, &quot;effing&quot; and &quot;bee&quot; were muted each time one of them was mentioned. I don&#039;t know if this to do with the network airing the repeat in the UK, but since it&#039;s True Crime which features annoyingly lengthy trailers for programmes about murder and forensic investigations at the start and finish of each episode I&#039;m guessing the muting is more likely to be a legacy from its original US production.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 392784, member: 23"] Meanwhile, back in the original [I]Judge Judy[/I] series, I've just watched an episode in which a man sued a former friend for a dental bill after he was punched. He claimed the altercation took place in July but, when asked for a dental bill, produced one from December - almost six months later. Judy told him she would need to see a bill from immediately afterwards to show that his damaged teeth were caused by the incident in July. The man said he had not attended because he'd waited until his next routine appointment. The back and forth between Judy and the plaintiff became increasingly heated until she volubly snapped at him: I don't know who laughed harder: the extras in the audience, Byrd or Judy herself. Incidentally, this episode featured one of most twee and unnecessary acts of censorship I've ever seen when the defendant claimed the plaintiff had sworn at his wife. When Judy asked what was said, the defendant's wife said she had been told: The above sentence is verbatim, so - unless the plaintiff was Ned Flanders - the witness was presumably self-censoring. All the same, on the airing I watched the words "hell", "effing" and "bee" were muted each time one of them was mentioned. I don't know if this to do with the network airing the repeat in the UK, but since it's True Crime which features annoyingly lengthy trailers for programmes about murder and forensic investigations at the start and finish of each episode I'm guessing the muting is more likely to be a legacy from its original US production. [/QUOTE]

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What month follows July?