> Undelete, please. Why is it or was it frowned upon?
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> Ken <we used some choice words in the Bronx too>
Well, this verges on folk-etymology, but what I heard was it locks back to
mestrual blood -- thus bloody and bleeding.
By the time you get to "blooming", it really *is* euphemised.
Unless, of course, you cross-link to "bloomers".
Vlad the Impaler
{I'm pretty sure that the song which Dom originally cited goes back to the
Great Patriotic War.}
Strelnikov
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