BUTT (root: buttocks, the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on)
When we were kids there were certain words that we were not allowed to use. It is interesting to think back on what some of these words were. For the life of me I can't figure out what's wrong with the word butt. If we had known to, we could probably have used the word 'buttocks', but for whatever reason, shortening that to just 'butt' was unacceptable.
Granted, the context was more than likely attached to the word 'head', thus creating one of the most clever insults in human history. To claim that a brother's head was in fact a butt would have been as painfully insulting as kicking him in the... neck.
One of my favorite games to play (when I got old enough to forgo getting my mouth washed out with soap) was to trick Mom into saying some 'bad word' and then repeat that word over-and-over, claiming "Mom said it, it must be okay!" This was most fun when, somehow, it coincided with watching Dr. Quinn.
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The best part of not being able to use mild profanity were the alternative words we had to use...
"Tinkle" and "poop" sure sound cool when you are in high school, and saying "I'm going to kick your bottom" would make anyone laugh at you. It's also super-cool that we actually watched Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman together as a family, that helped us all fit in even more.
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