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H-E-double toothpicks

Posted by Word Camel on January 28, 2005

I recently came across this euphamism fof "hell" from my childhood and wanted to record it for posterity. In some parts of the US, and perhaps elsewhere, "hell" is considered a swear word. Another euphamism is "heck".