Reged: 11/11/04
Posts: 374
Loc: Wellington, New Zealand
I work for the tax department over here, and I get sworn at a lot. I've even learned a few new ones on the job! Part of the training we get on dealing with offensive language is to think of any word we don't like as "pumpkin". As in "I'll pumpkin your pumpkin, you pumpkin little civil servant!" It doesn't work all the time, but it does give a grounding in that words and phrases are as offensive as we make them. I appreciate where you're coming from, RachelK... but the boards are generally so good that maybe they're worth a little "pumpkin" now and then?