> A family chain restaurant in the States, Outback Steak House (it really
> doesn't serve 'roo steaks), will use blooming--as in Bloomin' Onion--so
> it must be fairly innocuous.
... then there's "Drat!", which began in the 1600s as a cover for, "God rot
his blood and bones."
Part of why this luncacy emerged was because of the anti-blasphemy laws
which got imposed on the English stage in the late 16thC.
:-(
Robin Roy McGregor Campbell, passing.
<"blooming" is innocuous or obscene, depending on the context.>
Wild Young Dickie.
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