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At a place I used to work someone bought in a document that would prevent us from having to swear in front of members of the 'public'. (Just why we shouldn't swear in front of a bunch of truckies was never made clear, but anyway...) This had all the offensive words and phrases listed by theme and each one with a code number. So people would say something like "502 you 607" to which I would go over to the counter with the sheet on it, work out what had been said then shout back "well 417 you, you 627 128). This provided a few days amusement until we all went back to just swearing at each other, the foreman, the job etc etc. I supposed you could say that swearing by numbers helped lessen the pain of a boring tedious job.
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