re #1095 and word usage: When my daughter was about a year old, another dispatcher and I were taking LEEP-funded classes at the OSU-branch campus along with some of the PD officers. We were all on break between classes. Probably 10 officers around the table, too. I either dropped or spilled something and said, "
Shucky darnit!"
In unison, every officer around the table exclaimed, "Shucky darnit!?" and then they all cracked up laughing. (PD guys had "colorful" language and with a young daughter, I had to make a concerted effort not to think and speak aloud using their "inflections." And they had the nerve to mock me for it!)
re #1100:
Winglethorp's Mommy!!! #1100!!!