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Do Not Swear Around My Parents

It started early for me - using words sailors are supposed to know My parents had no idea where I got them. I figured it was my last lifetime When I was a pirate. I could cuss with gusto at an early age. Dhraammit! I would yell when I tried to walk and fell on my knees. What did she say? My parents asked each other, hoping it was not what it was. I got my mouth washed out with a bar of Ivory soap by the time I was four and was using these words: SLURP! SMARL! MACH! WHOOOP! CHICAKE Chicake meant cat, but they thought it meant something else. They were the parents, and in charge of the soap So gurgle, gurgle, spit, spit, gurgle, gurle, choke, choke. I rapidly learned to not swear around my parents However, I was quite selective in my friend-choosing. I did not surround myself with the super religious Or the super judgmental, which were often the same actually. I surrounded myself with other reincarnated pirates like me. Dhrammit, it’s not my turn to swab the deck! No swhit?

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Date: 2/26/2020 2:41:00 PM
You don't say?! -- Uckin-Fay
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/27/2020 1:04:00 AM
Oh, wow. I wonder what you can mean? mirkS mirkS.
Date: 2/25/2020 2:51:00 PM
Liked this...funny and I hated the taste of Lifebuoy soap. I think that is how it was spelled. Vjckie
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 2/27/2020 1:04:00 AM
I think you are right; in our house it was Ivory until it was the green one whose name I have forgotten.

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