Cheese and rice (Jesus Christ!)

[sagehen]

Bill Mullins writes:

>The character Lt. Howard Hunter on "Hill Street Blues" used to say
>"Judas Priest" as a profanity, but the band with that name goes back to
>the late sixties.
>~~~~~~~
"Judas Priest!" was certainly around in the thirties, when I frequently
heard it from a playmate of mine.  We were a pretty "gosh darn" lot,
observing the taboos of the day, but without necessarily thinking of our
expletives as evasions of taboo ones.
AM



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