I know I used it on the playground as early as 1982, because I was there. I also got into trouble for using it in 1985 in public because my parents thought it had a sexual connotation. (I never figured out whether it really did or didn't. We used it interchangeably with "stinks" as a previous poster's teacher had suggested.) In the early 90s I had it auto-edited out of a post I used on a BBS which was titled "Death ****s" I was very upset about that because it made me look like I had something much worse.
Broad, sweeping statements should always be checked with care.
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I know I used it on the playground as early as 1982, because I was there. I also got into trouble for using it in 1985 in public because my parents thought it had a sexual connotation. (I never figured out whether it really did or didn't. We used it interchangeably with "stinks" as a previous poster's teacher had suggested.) In the early 90s I had it auto-edited out of a post I used on a BBS which was titled "Death ****s" I was very upset about that because it made me look like I had something much worse.
Broad, sweeping statements should always be checked with care.