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BarbaraPA Posted 16 years ago
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Bad words!

I found this article hysterical.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10235/1081989-151.stm

Let's bring back things like this: Oh my sainted aunt! Oh my stars and garters! and Dagnabit!

Nothing is more tedious than the same bad words said over and over.
  

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Actuallly, to me the only offensive remark she utters is ' pimping your piehole'– that word is really repugnant to me. I think part of the 'same bad words' syndrome is that they become very much a part of one's idiolect over the years. ' for major ones.

— Mister Micawber

  • Actuallly, to me the only offensive remark she utters is ' pimping your piehole'– that word is really repugnant to me.
  • I think part of the 'same bad words' syndrome is that they become very much a part of one's idiolect over the years.
  • ' for major ones.
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Actuallly, to me the only offensive remark she utters is ' pimping your piehole'– that word is really repugnant to me.

I think part of the 'same bad words' syndrome is that they become very much a part of one's idiolect over the years. My own, though probably not the usual, are what I always say, I'm afraid: '***'s TEETH!' for minor irritants and 'F- you and the horse
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Yes, but a head tilt, a piercing look, and a "AND the horse you rode in on!" speaks volumes without the F-bomb, doesn't it? I like the "***'s teeth!" That's right in the spirit of things.

Anyway, for one week I will try to cuss only with creativity.
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For some reason that I don't remember, in my house, "Dagnabit" is always followed by "big rabbit!"
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a piercing look
Trouble is, an old bald geezer in reading glasses don't have none.

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