pardon this, codger!

[Natalie Maynor]

Grant said:
> However, as we've discussed on this list before, I find that in
> New York City, where I live, obscenities are far more common in
> everyday speech than they are where I'm from (Missouri). Meetings,
> casual conversation, email, music, stage peformances, eks.

Could the difference be one of time rather than of place?  Do you
spend enough time in Missouri now to know whether the speech habits
are the same as they were when you lived there?
   --Natalie Maynor (maynor at ra.msstate.edu)