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To: Superstu321

Sometimes foul language has its place and serves a purpose.

When George Washington fired Charles Lee for his retreat at Monmouth he did so, (according to one witness), “shake the trees with such torrents of profanity and swearing that it was almost musical.”


3 posted on 03/02/2011 3:24:36 PM PST by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
“In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obscenity that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”

From: A Christmas Story (movie) or for the readers out there: I God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.

8 posted on 03/02/2011 3:37:15 PM PST by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

“When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. ... As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.”

George S. Patton


14 posted on 03/02/2011 3:53:59 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!!!)
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