#$%@^&!

The name game taught me my first swear word.

We all know the name game. It's the one where you take a word and then you kinda contort it in a rhythmic pattern until you wind up back at the original word. For example...

Blog, Blog, bo bog, banana fanana, fo fog, me my mo mog. BLOG!

Fun right. Well, I remember when I first learned that song that I just had to show my mother.

"Oh Eric, that is quite delightful," she said. "JUST NEVER DO DUCK! OR I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Odd," I thought to myself. "Let's call her bluff."

"Duck, duck, bo buck, banana fanana, fo fu-"

And then she killed me. And so is the story of me and my first swear.