On 7/17/05, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> f**k <snip>
I'm going to veer even more wildly off-topic: Why, to be polite, to we put asterisks in the middle of swear-words, to make them more palatable to sensitive readers? Everyone knows the person quoted meant "fuck". That's the word that went through the minds of every single person who read the post. If "fuck" is crude slang for sexual intercourse, and "f**k" is merely another representation of that same word, who exactly is being spared here? I don't mean to direct this question at you, David, but it's something that I've always wondered about. I mean I don't get this sh*t! <g> Seriously. cheers, frank, being a bit of an a**hole -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
