Intimidating language

[Jonathan Lighter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/12/public-swearing-middleborough-fine_n_1587270.html


Note use of "inappropriate" to mean "offensive to decorum" (Contrast
yesterday's "explicit.")

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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