[PW] Plut and Shazbat! - TANJ!

[Dennis Lien]

At 11:00 PM 4/30/2008, you wrote:
>My favourite made-up expletive is TANJ! - used in Larry Niven and Jerry
>Pournelle's Ringworld series of Sci-Fi novels. It's an acronym for
>"There Ain't No Justice!".


Marvel Comics used to have such tough-guy characters as Luke Cage,
Hero for Hire "swear" by shouting "Spit!" and describing things
as "freakin' ."

My favorite personal expletive substitute is "squid and petunias!"
Doesn't mean anything in particular, but certainly *sounds* as though
it ought to do so.

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu