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["Parker, David X" <dmp31526 AT GlaxoWellcome.com>]

Ian,

Please don't accuse somebody who doesn't prefer to use those words of being
an "uber-religious zealot." Why should the fact that someone avoids cursing
annoy you?

- Dave P.

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> From:         Ian Meyer
> Reply To:     Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Sent:         Saturday, October 11, 2003 1:14 PM
> To:
> Internetworkers AT happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu:"http://www.ibiblio.org/interne
> tworkers/"
> Subject:      Re: [internetworkers] Wanna tell someone to go "F..."
> themselves?
> 
> I think you're absolutely right
> 
> One of the most annoying things to me is when some uber-religious 
> zealot or just someone who doesn't curse or use 4 letter words says 
> other words in their palace like "G.D."  for "God dammit" or something 
> like that. They're obviously thinking it, but just not saying it, and 
> to me, thats just the same.
> 
> Personally, I could really care less...
> 
> My $0.02
> Ian
> 
> 
> On Oct 11, 2003, at 2:32 AM, Alan MacHett wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> ...the body finder screamed 'Hey ****wad" while...
> >>
> >
> > Okay, I have to chime in now...  I mean, criminy! "****"??  It's just a
> > word.  You can say it; it's okay.  Hey, you can even *spell* it: F - U 
> > - C
> > - K.  Along with all the other "four-letter" or "bad" words.
> >
> > I have never understood this cultural peculiarity that certain words 
> > are
> > somehow bad.  We can't say fuck over here, but across the pond and 
> > south
> > of the border it's perfectly acceptable; and across the pond they're 
> > not
> > allowed to say bloody, yet Americans think it's a perfect British 
> > accent
> > to say bloody this and bloody that...
> >
> > They're just words; get over it.
> >
> > $0.02
> > Alan
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