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Re: USAGE: "I want crazy two years ago"

From:Ph.D. <phil@...>
Date:Thursday, July 13, 2006, 20:32
Gary Shannon wrote:
> > "Darn" can mean a lot of other things as well: > > "Oh darn this bad weather." > "Oh darn the socks and be done with it." > "Darn it all!"
A man with holes in his socks usually has a wife who doen't give a darn. :-) There's a set of euphemisms for swear words: shoot, darn, dang, friggin', gosh darn it, goll dang it. Isn't French "sacre bleu" a euphemism for "sacre Dieu"? --Ph. D.