class using a textbook with a section on swearing which illustrated the flexibility of the word fuck with the sample sentence 'what are you fucking doing fucking in my fucking bed, you fuck.' This proved quite useful in teaching basic sentence structure. It also came close to getting me sacked, of course. Smart Aleck said, The Jamaican term 'blaad claat' can really only be displayed in patois because if you anglicize it you get 'blood clot', which for some time I made the mistake of believing was West Indian's way of wishing a thrombosis on you -- to your obvious physical detriment. A Jamaican mate actually laughed and told me that it actually meant 'blood cloth', so essentially is the equivalent of calling someone a soiled tampon. And this would not be the kind of 'tampon' found down the local chemists either. It would be a piece of old rag used to stem menstrural blood, and so if you are called a 'blaad claat' you can see that it might give cunt a run for its money. Delster said, well i've just read the snopes article and it's definatly incorrect on at least one thing. It states that "Last but certainly not least, wouldn't these insolent archers have been bragging about plucking the bow's string, and not the wood of the bow itself? " Archery was known as plucking or drawing the yew as thats what the best bows were (and still are) made of. So wrong on that count.