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[Charles C Doyle]

Mark, your consistency is to be admired!

--Charlie

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From: American Dialect Society [ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on behalf of Mark Mandel [thnidu at GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 8:26 AM

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I have consistenly used "rat fuck!" as an expletive of extreme irritation
since, I believe, the middle 1960s.

m a m

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