A Massachusetts Librarian writing as the "Swiss Army Librarian or, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Fear and Loathing at a Public Library Reference Desk" (http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/) did a recent piece called "Swear Like A Librarian." He works at a public library reference desk, and, therefore, is collecting a list of swear word stand-ins to use while serving the general public. It is a fun piece and the comments are equally as entertaining.
However, this being summer vacation, all the Teachers and Librarians that I know are still swearing freely, and perhaps, unnecessarily, as September looms on the horizon. When autumn begins, we will revert to the decorous public behavior that our students "clock" every second of, and that we wish our young charges to emulate.
Yet, there will be those occasional moments at work when I am in the Library teaching a lesson, servicing computers or cataloguing materials and one or two students are involved in some silly surreal teenage antics when they should be focused on something else, or some freak accident occurs that can only result from the alchemy of 30 teenagers in one room and I am thinking: "Can I Get A Witness?!" or "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" -- I will take a breath and think of Swiss Army Librarian's list. CHEESE AND RICE!
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