><rant>
>Why do people do that? If you leave enough letters there to
> know what the word is, you might as well have just written it
> out. Not that itreally matters, it just strikes me as silly.
></rant>

        Hmmm, I'll say something polemical, but true

 - there aren't bad words. There are people who are convinced
 some words are bad

Anyone who remembers the UK sitcom Steptoe & Son might
remember the episode in which Albert (a dirty old lecher) did
the crossword in the parish magazine. When the old biddies
complained about the filthy answers, Albert replied "If they
know what the words are why are they so shocked?"

And that's all they are - just words. But like tattoos, they can
indicate what's underneath. I had some skinhead friends
in the 70's who had tattoos and swore so much you could
hardly understand a sentence. Top blokes they were, until
they met a Pakistani or gay

I like Billy Connolly's explanation that he uses swearing as
punctuation and "mood words". A hint of a "naughty" word
is tantalising, like a negligee

And sometimes "Go away" just isn't enough

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