It should be surprising, but it isn't really.

So those yanks couldn't handle a few ancient Stones lyrics from the 70's at the Superbowl... I mean, how long has Start Me Up been knocking around the airwaves!!? I can remember rocking out to it as a tiny kiddie when 'You make a dead man come' might have made me think of ghosts visiting in the night if I'd stopped to think about it, which I didn't. Bleeping out the word "come" is not going to fool anybody - and it's only going to make the kiddies wonder what that word could possibly mean if it doesn't mean 'approach'.

Isn't society supposed to get more progressive as it matures, not less? So we've* regressed from a point in the 70's, where we could take a bit of naughty word play or the odd double entendre, to the present, where we now flush hotly at the thought of the Rolling Stones being lewd and rude - despite them having made a living out of it for 40 years? I don't understand.

*I say 'we', because the US are the cultural arbitors of the world. Not my world, but a world which even my close friends - who watch the OC, Prison Break, Desperate Housewives etc - inhabit. There's no escape.