Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 23:11:01 11/02/00
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> I am still wondering if this is completely cultural, I think it was mostly cultural. In most places, including my old country, that word doesn't make nearly as big a splash as it does here, in US. Coincidentally, the toilets here are also designed to have much larger standing water pool than anywhere else I travelled to. > or if this is a case of two different types of thinking: > > 1) People who view CCC as a collection of adults. > > 2) People who wouldn't talk that way around kids, and > view CCC as "around kids". > ... I was just about to comment here, on these two different types, when a sudden twitch of my pinky reminded me that the local PeeCee Cell would promptly dispatch their anti-sexism squad to go after me. > If you are a parent, and your kid says, "oh shit" loudly and publicly > when he falls down, what do you do? My wife would tell them to say "fiddle sticks." And I would tell them, "your mom would tell you to say fiddle sticks."
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