Lately I’ve been consciously trying to reign in my excessive bad language. It’s “not smart or clever” as my Mum would say.  The problem I’ve found though is that swearing is actually quite a useful tool, a tool not replaced satisfactorily with either “darn”, “drat” or “jeepers”.  Thankfully I found this photo the other day and now “Holy, Hitler on a bus” has become an adequate default.  It has a nice cadence.

On occasion when I’ve been quite angry I’ve accidentally lengthened it to “Holy, fucking Hitler on a bus” which I’ve discovered is more powerful then just dropping the f-bomb by itself. I think people are generally more scared of people that use novelty swear words.