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From: morris@Shasta.ARPA
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Subject: Re: A whole nother story (contains F-words)
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Date: Mon, 1-Apr-85 17:48:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  1 17:48:20 1985
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> By far, most instances of tmesis in English involve the ever-popular "fucking"
> or its variants:
> 	big fucking deal
> 	Jesus fucking Christ  (At Caltech we used "Jesus h-bar fucking Christ")
> 	whoopie-fucka-doo
> 	  etc.
> I wonder why other "naughty" words aren't used this way.  Any subscribers to
> Maledicta out there?
> 
> -- David Smallberg, das@ucla-cs.ARPA, {ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!das

It's common in Australia to use 'bloody' in this way. For example,
there's a humorous book 'They're a Weird Mob', by Nino Cullotto (not his
real name...) which describes an Italian immigrant's first experiences
in Australia.  A taxi driver takes him to 'Kings-bloody-Cross' -- needless
to say, he later gets into all sorts of trouble using this expression.