Author Offers Ten Tips on Eliminating Profanity from One's Vocabulary

Cheyenne, Wyoming,Tribune-Eagle ^ | 05-11-03 | Olson, Ilene

[sauropod]

The author of this article is an effing idiot!!! :=), :-)

[IronJack]

Instead of calling somebody an f-ing idiot or an a-hole,

... call them an f-ing a-hole. It saves wear and tear on the tongue.

[Petronski]

Author Offers Ten Kick-Ass Tips on Eliminating Profanity from One's Vocabulary

[MEG33]

Could you send this over to DU? I lurked once and realized most had an incomplete command of our English language.

[Lizavetta]

Selina Hofflund, human resources manager for Frontier Refining, said that company also discourages cussing in the work place... “There is an assumption that we don’t use foul language. ...“It is not tolerated (and) can be construed as harassment,” she added.

Awwww, !&#^$&#! off, lady. Get a real job.

[tictoc]

**** ***, *** *** ** * *****, *** *** ***** *** **** ** **!

[MEG33]

Sorry ,charity begins at home. ...;^)

[Cicero]

Two or three generations ago, a young woman might have blushed when she heard someone swear.

I remember the days when the most a young woman (or girl as they were called then) might say was shucks or darn. Nowadays, around the Northeast at least, the young women outswear the men.

[Chad Fairbanks]

!&*%$@%*%#)@^#_@^#_@^#&@^&^&^%&^$%%$^%@$#@%#^@%#^$@*&!!!!!!!

[steplock]

Excellent Article on what some people USED to call good manners -- this before the days of slime from the left coast.

[dighton]

“I am sick and tired of the word ****. If I ever hear the ******* word again I’m going to throw up.”

-- Ernie Pyle, quoted in Wartime.

[BostonCajun]

The author is right on. I used to have this problem
and can say 1st hand that his techniques
real f%*&##ing work.

[mikegi]

I need to work on this, too, especially the casual cursing. It was really brought out when we had our daughter. Things would slip out and I dreaded hearing it repeated by her.

What's really bad is the loud cursing by braindead teenagers in the mall. We were eating at a food court with our daughter and some BD teens were cursing incessantly. Finally, I had enough and told them to knock off the cussing. To my complete surprise, they actually stopped.

[DumpsterDiver]

This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes (author unknown):

Profanity is the crutch of inarticulate motherf___ers.

[southernnorthcarolina]

[Drango]

What a Clymer.

[strela]

Who is this farging icehole who has the bells to tell ME to stop fscking swearing? Go school yourself, you corksacker!

[Xenalyte]

I had a boss a couple of jobs ago - great lady from New York City - who cursed ALL the time, to the point where we didn't even notice it. (Not at us, mind you.) It was obviously done without malice, and since she's a very educated woman I always figured it was an eccentricity, but I loved her to death and never thought a thing of it.