Hey Dale,

What the F-word is up with that?  I mean which F-word can I use now?  If you and I get into an argument, especially here on the DBIS or in public, I might call you (and you might justifiably call me) a "F-word"-ER.  But if you just yelled at me, hey, Gene you "F-word", I would be puzzled as to which F-word you meant.   That would make for terrible anxiety on my part, sleepless nights and all that bad stuff.  Now if I said in retort, go "F-word" yourself, that would be a little less ambiguous.  So I am refreshed in one sense that Anne Coulter said "faggot" instead of F-word; the sense of flow was better in her little diatribe, and she avoided giving her audience undue anxiety (with it's potential attendant health-risk problems like sleeplessness, indigestion and exacerbation of hypertension..just to name a few), and that was a responsible consideration on her part.  Now, if she said, the N-word, that would have been even more problematic, especially in regards to John Edwards, because I wouldn't know if she meant, "nymph", "nasty" or "not-nice", or "nudnick"....Jeez, we really should be very careful about what comes out of our mouths, or like Momma used to do, we'll have to "wash out our mouths with soap", or worse still, go into rehab, or worse still, like ol' Mel, "find the appropriate path for healing".  

Oh S-word, I left my F-word'in car keys back at the office!  Bloody H-word.  I'm so P-word'd-off right now!

Gene