h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Here's a word whose force has diminished noticeably in the last 30 years or so. There is an Anglo-American difference - 'The spy who shagged me' could not, methinks, have been so named on the British side of the Atlantic, where cinema managers refused to advertise it on their marquees. And I was shocked - yes, shocked! - to hear Frazier's dad in one episode echo Austin Powers with 'Shag-nificent!' But asking around confirms my impression that even in England it's far less in-your-face than was the case around, say, 1960.