On 2017-01-04 4:26 PM, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
> In article >, Ophelia
> > wrote:
>
>> "jmcquown" wrote in message news
>
>>> I will use foul language if I get angry enough.
>
> <F word with asterisks>
>
>> That's the word ...
>
> Ladies! Ladies! I admit to knowing the bad word since I hit the
> playground, but I only used it once talking to my father. The only
> dirty phrase he ever used when furious was "son of a bitching *******".
> That's it. He never even broke the phrase apart. But knowing the big
> word, I used it once within his earshot at about fourteen. As I stood
> there dumbfounded and mortified, he suggested I increase my vocabulary.
> I did that, but there are special circumstances where only one word
> works. I see all the components of his worst phrase on commercial TV
> nowadays. I have to go to cable to hear most of mine.
> Since the word slides so easily off the tongue, I'm surprised people
> don't name their dog with it. That mutt would think it was popular
> wherever it went.
>
> leo
>
If my grandfather hit his thumb or did something that merited a swear
word, he'd say: "*********, and double and thripple it!"