Really? She'll have to cut the whole scene? Seems to me she'd want to find a way to rephrase, instead -- there are milder versions of the "f" word. (Unless of course the context is a limerick and she needs a rhyme for "duck" goofy Then she might be stuck.) English is a wonderful language like that -- tons of different words for basically the same thing, with slightly different connotations. smile But of course it's totally up to her.

PJ


"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K