Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!nathan From: nathan@orstcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Creative Cursing Message-ID: <15700010@orstcs.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 02:31:00 EST Article-I.D.: orstcs.15700010 Posted: Mon Mar 26 02:31:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 02:31:57 EST Organization: Oregon State University - Corvallis, OR Lines: 25 Nf-ID: #N:orstcs:15700010:000:1014 Nf-From: orstcs!nathan Mar 19 23:31:00 1984 Re: Creative Cursing There was some discussion awhile back in women.only about replacements for no-longer-appropriate cusswords. Well, I submit for critical lambasting: "Audit You!" "They really Audited you over, didn't they?" ". . . Auditing-offspring-of-an-accountant" and "What the Fritz?!" (or should this be in net.politics?) It may be that we could get Audit onto television's "list of deadly words". Can you imagine all the euphemisms the tax people would come up with to avoid saying, "We're coming over to audit you." ? ------------------------------------------------ from the vicious cycle of: >>----->>-------------( Nathan C. Myers )-----------------\ / | | ...!decvax!tektronix!ogcvax!hp-pcd!orstcs!nathan | | nathan.oregon-state@RAND-RELAY | \___________________________________________________/