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To: Robert C. Petersen who wrote (1187)3/25/1998 4:46:00 PM
From: Intrepid1  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1614
 
Wrong! Wrong!

Around the time of Chaucer there was a very famous folk song. The first verse contains what is probably the first recorded usage of the F. word.

summer is a cummin in laude sing cuckoo
bloweth sayd and bloweth mayd
the fuk it hapneth too

purething



To: Robert C. Petersen who wrote (1187)3/25/1998 7:41:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1614
 
BLANK if I know! :-)
What with my advanced seniority an'all, I've fallen prone to CRAFT disease. It's an acronym for Can't Remember a Thing.