Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> I don't think SOB is much used outside of America. So, why call someone
> a puppy ?
Yer mother's a dog ?
Actually, it probably hasn't been used in that manner for 50 years.
We have MUCH more colorful curses now.
Currently its use is more to express surprise - usually HAPPY surprise.
Don't have ANY idea how that came about. <G>
In the same sense F@#$ expresses ANYTHING we want.
Possibly the most useful and well used word in North American communication,
it can be a noun, verb, adjective, adverb or any of the other grammar bits
I've forgotten, in addition to it's (infrequent) use as an expletive.
F@#$ing RIGHT !
- Clarence Verge
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