a In both speech and writing, we're taught that we can use transitional phrases to help the flow. "Alternatively,", "On the other hand,", "As you might expect,", and so on.... Kind funny, Dad seemed to pick up that G-D this and M-F that were transitional phrases, rather than adjectives. This would have been understandable had he been a sailor, but he was an M.P. in the Army. As a small consolation, I always preferred to think that he was reaching for words when he was p-o'd instead of reaching for a club or a gun. Such language is referred to as "intemperate." But at what point does a lack of temper leave off, and righteous indignation begin? Now, without a doubt, when he was p-o'd at my brother and I, this was intemperate, as we could *never* have been guilty of anything that would lead him to "righteous indignation"... ;-) -dq