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To: Lane3 who wrote (57847)	8/3/2004 6:45:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793759

"Shove it" means "shove it up your @$$." Not nice. I curse like a sailor, myself, but would have to be so angry as to lose control before I'd say "shove it" to a reporter at a political event. Especially when the reporter was basically right and asking for clarification. Kerry curses at the drop of a hat. The one which offended me the worst was calling a Secret Service man who was skiing with him a "son of a bitch" when he fell down. I can't imagine a President calling a Secret Service man, who would take a bullet for him if need be, a son of a bitch, that really sticks in my craw. "Four more years of hell" as a retort to protestors is just coarse, it's the type of thing you'd have expected from a Spiro Agnew type. Every time I used a coarse expression in front of a stranger I apologize, you never know who will be offended. I've found that middle-class black folks, the type that I might run into working at a courthouse or a government building, tend to be religious and extremely offended by even "hell" and "damn". They think less of me for using the language, period, and they think I am insulting them to use it around them.