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Harper’s Weekly – July 10, 1858
Harper's Weekly archives ^ | July 10, 1858

Posted on 07/10/2018 6:36:18 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson

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To: PeterPrinciple

and that led me to minced oaths:

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/minced-oath.html

I will let the reader look up the origin of the following:

Suffering succotash

Sacré bleu

Drat

Gadzooks


21 posted on 07/15/2018 9:11:29 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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