Assorted curses (TOT=terribly OT)

[Kevin Clark]

>From: "Stefan Persson" <reimersholme at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Stefan Persson" <reimersholme at hotmail.com>
>To: "Becca Ridout" <skyrat13 at hotmail.com>, <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
>Subject: Re: Assorted curses (TOT=terribly OT)
>Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:53:58 +0100
>
>----- 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"?

Who is, I assume, "Black Peter", the origin of bad children waking up to 
find coal in their stockings on Christmas morning (the coal being a warning 
that, next year, if the kid didn't improve, Peter would take them to his 
coal mine).

The Pete in question, however, is probably St. Peter.


Cheers,
Kevin Clark
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