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Originally Posted by eelskimmer
I would like to relply to each and every response
above but let me just start with two.
Clammer, it is spelt F #$%^&*() and the word
comes from the German "esfenken" meaning to
"esfenken it". Please observe some decorum...."
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and furthermore, the current usage is derived as an acronym for adulterers back in puritan times. It is derived from the charge:
for unlawful carnal knowledge. If you were "esfenken"ing another man's wife or an unmarried woman, you were put into the stockade with the accompying charge, shortened to just the first letters, thus our current word: FU**.
I learned that little jewel in catholic high school.
The Franciscan Brothers weren't that bad afetr all.