Will The Real March Please Stand Up?

[Marta Russell]

>Marta Russell wrote:
>
>>Egads.
>>Doug
>>
>>Doug,
>>Where does that word egads come from?
>>My grandmother used to use it and I associated it with her - 
>>thought it was a southern thing.
>
>It's a euphemism for O God! I use it, and other mild epithets like 
>gosh, because my normal instinct is to turn to some variant of fuck. 
>Since I sometimes worry about sounding too much like Tony Soprano, a 
>little mildness now and then never hurts.
>
>Doug

I use fuck way too much but that comes from trying to bust the 
stereotype that wheelchair users (and disabled in general) are polite 
souls who aren't allowed to and don't say fuck.

Marta
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Marta Russell
Los Angeles, CA
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