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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ish who wrote (47149)	7/25/1999 7:49:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

What's good enough for Rhett Butler is good enough for me, Ish! <g> No, seriously, I'd like to tell you a story about my long-gone youth. At the age of eleven, I arrived at an ultra-ultra-ultra-progressive school. My only previous boarding school experience had been at a convent school -- at a nunnery, in short. It was -- ahem! -- a very different sort of place than the school I was now attending. Well, within a couple of days my dorm-mates, a very hard-boiled bunch of girls, if I do say so, had made a couple of bets. One was: when will she finally take a bath? (The nuns had taught us: "Never let another little girl see your bah-dee." And there was only one tub here for twelve girls, right smack in the middle of the bathroom, with no curtains!!!) The seond one was: When will she say a curse word? If I remember correctly, nobody won the first bet. They finally just lost patience with me, filled up a tub, and tossed me into it with all my clothes on. Somebody DID win the second bet (forget exactly who). One day, driven to exasperation, and surrounded with a fog of bad example, I came out with -- "Damn!" Oh, jubilation! Oh, joyful jumpings and shriekings! What a celebration there was that night! I think there was even some coca-cola.... And I didn't go to Hell! And never since have I worried about being improper. And "improper" is by no means the same thing as "impolite," anyway. Saying "the hell with it" or "who gives a damn" or even (even!!) "oh, sh!" when you drop something on your toe is not "impolite," because it is not aimed at anyone. Calling somebody a "damned fool" or a "hellhound" or a "shhead" is impolite, because the purpose of doing it is to offend other people personally. In fact, you don't even have to use "naughty" words to do that: calling others idiots or lunatics or liars or whatever, is just as effective, IMO. Joan So...I have never thought it "impolite" to say things like "the hell with it"

To: Ish who wrote (47149)	7/25/1999 8:02:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

More on the use of "damn." Well, times do change. You must be pretty long in the tooth yourself, Ish! ;-) Couldn't resist looking up "damn" in the dictionary -- The American Heritage Dictionary -- and, whaddyaknow, "damn" is no longer even considered a cuss word! And that is according to the 1969 edition, which came out 30 years ago! Lookee here, at the definition of "damn" as a noun: (informal)The least valuable bit; a jot; [as in] don't give a damn; not worth a damn Joan