Dan touched on it, and rarely is the day I give him credit, but hey.....

I don't say the word "kill" to intentionally offend anyone......If in the process I do, I don't really give a hoot, but I don't do it thinking I am going to tick someone off. But I'm not going to deliberately change my wording for fear of offending someone........Besides, it can't be done anyway. You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of time. Someone's gonna be offended somewhere in most cases.

When I was younger I did alter the way I spoke in front of my parents, but only because they would whoop my arse.....Fear of not being able to sit down for a week CAUSED me to change my wording.....

Being older in life I've learned to not really care if someone agrees or disagrees with me. True, some folks feelings matter to me more than others, but I'm not going to change my beliefs or language to please them.

GMMAT phrased his "speech" the way he felt was right. I can roll with that, but that's not the way I roll. Wow, that's got a nifty ring to it.....[8D]