> > Anyone remember Beverly Cleary's "Ramona" series of children's books, and the scene wherein Ramona threatens to say a bad word in front of her family? The word was "guts". :-)
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> > Iss "the pest" achar
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> My mom loves to tell the story of how, as a child, she told her Army seargent father that a lower ranking officer had said a "terrible" word in front of her. My grandfather tried for hours to get my mother to say what the word was, but to her, it was so awful, she couldn't bear to repeat it. My grandfather finally took the private to task anyway, delivering a stern and bitter, very public dressing down, which was made worse by the fact that the young man seemed to use obscenity so nonchalantly that he couldn't remember saying anything offensive in front of his superior officer's daughter.
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> Turned out later that the word was "p*ss."
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> Mou"everything's relative"sie

Many years ago, my summer job was painting classrooms in the same elementary school where I taught. We started on the 5 thru 8 wing where we
found many profane words written on the walls. There seemed to be a preference for bathroom terms. We must have painted out thousands of words. Then we moved to the K thru 4 wing. In a hall outside the first grade a student had written "pe pe and do do."
Even at that age they like to use forbidden words.
I wonder..... will this post get through?
Howard