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JimGinPA

(14,811 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:11 AM Jun 2020

This Is A Scary Sign

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This Is A Scary Sign (Original Post) JimGinPA Jun 2020 OP

And a bag of whistles. 2naSalit Jun 2020 #1

And a chocolate ice cream and a puppy GeoWilliam750 Jun 2020 #2

And a set of drums. Talitha Jun 2020 #3

I was paid to swear. Learn a few choice phrases then go Solly Mack Jun 2020 #4

2naSalit

(86,622 posts)

1. And a bag of whistles.

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:47 AM

Jun 2020

GeoWilliam750

(2,522 posts)

2. And a chocolate ice cream and a puppy

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 08:55 AM

Jun 2020

Talitha

(6,589 posts)

3. And a set of drums.

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 10:49 PM

Jun 2020

Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)

4. I was paid to swear. Learn a few choice phrases then go

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 11:34 PM

Jun 2020

home and say them in front of my mother. The guilty party being the son of a friend of my mom's.

Got anywhere between a nickel and fifty cents depending on the word or phrase.

It was done to shock my mother but I ended up fluent in profanity with a nice little money stash.

She didn't punish me but she let her disapproval be known. To both myself and my tutor.

Helps to imagine a tiny, short, tow-head in a petticoat and ruffled undies who didn't get to wear jeans until she was ten.

The profanity was liberating. The heavily starched dresses not so much.

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