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My best buddy in the world taught me his trick for avoiding profanity.
In a moment of shock, he says:
"All I can say is . . . wow."
It sounds goofy, but it works really well for me.

Well, "CHIT," I'll have to give it a try! LOL!

71 posted on 04/13/2004 9:51:23 PM PDT by onyx (Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold)

81 posted on 04/13/2004 9:55:00 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is Communism one drink at a time. - P.J. O'Rourke)

An aside:

I was working on my car at his house on Saturday and was removing a brake caliper (all you need to know is that this is the part that does the squeezing; it is exposed to extreme frictional heat).

A bolt was seized (by the heat) so badly that when I put all my strength into it to loosen it, it sheared off. The bolt broke rather than loosening.

It was the first time I spontaneously used his method, and it worked rather well.

I landed on the pavement; and looking at the broken bolt, I just laughed: "All I can say is wow!"