[Ads-l] cuss word euphemisms

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Dec 2 08:02:50 UTC 2016


On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 2:20 PM, MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM
AMRDEC (US) <william.d.mullins18.civ at mail.mil> wrote:

> 'Shut the front door!'


This one, IME, is the older. It's common on re-runs of, e.g. 2 Broke Girls.

In the UD from aught-five.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
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