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To: Red Badger

That’s because the Marines have such an adroit command of all the parts of speech.

It’s not cussing, but among the highest forms of literary art to use the same four letter word as a noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, conjunction and preposition in the same sentence.


48 posted on 06/15/2026 12:59:22 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

We had a Gunnery Sergeant that was also an ordained minister. He did not allow profanity in his office.

He had a plaque on his desk that read, “PROFANITY IS THE SOUND OF AN IGNORANT MIND TRYING TO EXPRESS ITSELF.”


75 posted on 06/15/2026 5:12:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

Priceless.....


79 posted on 06/15/2026 5:23:59 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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