Your comments are interesting. The origin of the "No matter where....." is unknown to me. I likely heard it somewhere but that fact is long lost.

My father told me many years ago that swearing was the curse of those with inadequate vocabularies; and that emotion can more adequately be expressed without their use. While I don't think that is entirely true, it has a great deal of merit.

My observation is that these words rapidly lose impact from the time they are first used and most often only detract from the intended message. Yes, I have been around construction sites and other places where no sentence is complete without them and while I don’t mind them, I merely find them unnecessary and even confusing.

Funny how we live in different worlds while sharing this one.

Edit> Thought for this day: In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.

I’d just bet you were not in the military, RT.

Keith! When I was a kid I had an uncle whose fishing buddy was from southern Georgia. He could fillet a person like a fish without ever using one word that, in another context, could not be used in church. It is quite an art form.

On the other side, I am reminded of a moment of my life. It was 1969 and my sorry rear was west of Da Nang. It was around midnight and a bunch of us were leaned against an APC listening to the squawk on its radio. Some 2nd louie was under fire, running low and needed ammo. I don’t think he had casualties as he was not requesting a Medivac but he desperately needed ammo. He had made several “requests” and was very proficient in the use of “MF” in its non-abbreviated form as well as other colorful expressions. Finally he just lost it. Of course, after 40 years, I cannot remember the exact conversation but it went something like this. I will use @ for the colorful words.

“Charlie Six to Firebase One, over. Fire Base One where’s my @@ ammo you @, @? <pause>. @,@ git a @ slick in the @ air with some @ ammo NOW you @. You @ lazy @, @@. @@ I ain’t @ kidding, @@, we’re all gonna be @ dead, you @@, if you don’t @ get off your @@@ NOW. NOW you @@ or I @@ swear I’m going to @ cut off your @@, @’s and feed them to the @ jungle rats!! Sargent, you @@, if I @ ever get my @ @$$ off this @@ hill I @ swear I’m @ gonna rip your @ head off your @ neck and @ down the @, @ hole, you @@.Do you hear me? you @@!! GIT IT HERE NOW! @@"

The APC moved out and I never knew if the LT actually got his ammo. I'm not sure it could have been "more adequately expressed" by him saying, “Please bring me some ammo, thank you.” I’m not sure it would have been quite as effective in that situation. His use of language was quite an art form too as he was able to use @@ as every part of speech in the English language. I think it would take a PhD in English to diagram his sentences though. I do hope they made it out alive.

PS: I’ll bet Dave can read this without pausing.

Since my first assignment in the Fire Direction Center in our battery was to be RTO, I had many conversations similar to that! Usually with LT's out as FO's wanting us to "please hurry up and fire" or something like that, usually over the sounds of a firefight.

... or something like that fer sure.

, Bro.

How did the GPU crunching go? Is it working?