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I used to swear a lot. I heard someone swear worse than me and I was offended. I saw myself in that person and I was determined to do something about it.

I started substituting the phrase “good grief” where I would normally start swearin.

I was going on a winter guys golf week to myrtle beach and, at the kickoff breakfast, I was telling my friends what I was trying to do and asked that they help me out.( what i learned here, was, be careful what you tell your “friends” :) )

By the time the week was over, I was searing again and my friends were using “good grief”.

Over time I worked on it and the swearin, except for an occasional dam*it or h_ll, is gone.

I started substituting the phrase “good grief” where I would normally start swearin.

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My go-to curse phrase is “sugar sticks.” Students looked at me with bewilderment and asked what that means... More fun memories!

I used to swear a lot. I heard someone swear worse than me and I was offended....
...Over time I worked on it and the swearin, except for an occasional dam*it or h_ll, is gone.
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I use one word for all kinds of instances. _ _It (the word is sh*t) substitutes and works for all others.

I am sincere when I say it, by connotation, was possibly used in the Bible. In Malachi chapter 2 God is saying he is extremely angry with the priests, they had profaned the name of the Lord with their behaviors/actions. Different interpretations use different words to describe what God is going to do in retribution.

I have seen the words dung, babies dung, vomit, and refuse used to name several. The verse is Malachi 2:3 "Behold, I am going to rebuke your offspring, and I will spread refuse on your faces, the refuse of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it."

My thinking is that a righteously indignant God is trying to get through to a bunch of filthy lowlife priests and is making a point when He does so. In today's vernacular the prescribed/proscribed word to use, when trying to get through to a bunch of vile dunder heads, would be sh*t.

All other things being equal I chose to use a word that kind of has a biblical reference point, when I am in acute pain, am angry, or have things go wrong.