Using strong language on the lists

[Judy Perry]

Chaucer used the word (not shut up) in the Canterbury Tales...

Judy

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Magnus Hippolyte Batavia wrote:

> I wonder who, apart from Eric Hansen, considers "Shut Up"
> worse than "Sh*t" ? This morning, on my way to work I put
> my foot in some of the latter (it might have even been
> 'dropped' by a passing programmer" - and from personal
> experience I can inform the world that it is far worse than
> "Shut Up".