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Subject:RE: OT: Profanity in the workplace From:"McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> To:Wade Courtney <wade -dot- courtney -at- gmail -dot- com>, "salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Wed, 3 Mar 2010 15:23:19 -0500
Farging ice-hole bastiges!
I always loved that one. :-)
Anybody remember the movie?
The wife and I now exclaim/refer-to "carp" when what we really mean is "crap", when what we really, really mean is "s**t!"
This will get confusing, as we just moved into our new house, complete with a pond out back, stocked with......
- K
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> Subject: Re: OT: Profanity in the workplace
>
> Is it really the word that's offensive or the intent behind
> it. For Example:
>
> Cheese and Rice
> Friggin, fricken, and freaking
> BS
> Crap
> Byotch
> G*d Bless America
>
> I've said all of these, my intent was the same as if I had
> said the actual
> curse word. I mean really, none of these are foul, but the
> intent behind
> them might be.
>
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