#$*%$!!! – there's a word for that! -::- Scott Reston

#$*%$!!! – there's a word for that!

H&FJ report that Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker coined the term grawlix around 1964 to describe the line of punctuation used in lieu of swearing in comics.

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