"Leonard Blaisdell" > wrote in message
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> 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

LOL, so true.

Cheri