Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!teddy!rdp From: rdp@teddy.UUCP Newsgroups: net.kids Subject: Re: Re: cut tongue out Message-ID: <1627@teddy.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 14:50:33 EST Article-I.D.: teddy.1627 Posted: Mon Nov 11 14:50:33 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Nov-85 04:33:48 EST References: <183@drutx.UUCP> <561@riccb.UUCP> <1021@bunker.UUCP> <2473@sunybcs.UUCP> <568@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: rdp@teddy.UUCP (Richard D. Pierce) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 18 In article <568@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes: > > When I was a kid, I was threatened with having my mouth washed out with >soap. I never believed it until one day I did in fact have a bar of soap >forcibly shoved in my mouth. I took admonishment about using nasty language >much more seriously after that... > Once again, I am reminded of the story my grandmother told about my father. One day, my father (as a significantly young person) was banging around with a hammer when he accidently hit his thumb. "GODDAMN IT!" he exclaimed. His mother, of very proper New England Congregationalist upbringing, promptly grabbed him, and proceeded to wash his mouth out with a bar of Fell's Naptha, reputed to be the most vile of bar soaps. His response, after gagging and sputtering, was, "Mother, that tasted just like shit!" Some people NEVER learn, I guess.