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July 1964

Those Vulgar Words

Comments from a cross section of AA on the speaker with a flair for ripe language

YOU go round to your group's regular open meeting, or drop in on one of another group, and hear an AA talk containing the following ingredients: a dirty, or at least a suggestive, joke; a fine curse or two calling the Deity to attend to the destruction of the speaker's enemies; a liberal salting of hells and damns; a peppering of the choicer four-letter words, and a quantity of more or less unclassifiable bumptiousness that for the purposes of this article we'll call "vulgarity." What do you think? No doubt you'll think you are in the wrong place.

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