Assorted curses (TOT=terribly OT)

M. Mitchell Marmel marmelmm at drexel.edu
Fri Feb 16 21:04:12 CET 2001


At 12:53 PM -0500 2/16/01, Stefan Persson wrote:
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Becca Ridout" <skyrat13 at hotmail.com>
>To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
>Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 6:40 PM
>Subject: Re: Assorted curses (TOT=terribly OT)
>
>
>> hmmm...come to think of it, 'pete' seems to be the offical replacement for
>> 'God'....another common substitution phrase is: "geeze-oh-pete!"
>> who the heck is this mysterious 'pete'?!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>The Dutch "Zwarte Piet"?

St. Peter, to the best of my knowledge.

-MMM-





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