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Me too. Especially since I "got" your usage upon first reading it. Therefore the more arcane derivations offered by the "Urban Dictionary" were what excited my longstanding interest in the etymology of slang. I'm surprised that Robin Hamilton hasn't yet supplied the definitive discourse on "fadge" and "Captain Fudge" from the post-academic world of linguistics. Barry On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 23:27:07 +0300, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I'm really surprised by all this hoo-ha about an expression that I >take totally for granted. 'fudge' is very much a simple cleansed >version of 'fuck', chosen probably due to its being a phonetic minimal >pair with the latter. I forgot that in the academic world of >linguistics every slang expression has to be qualified by a citation >in print! ;) > >KS