"When did having class & manners become a bad thing?"

your primitive notions of manners and class amuse us. our language changes and grows and it always has, even the most polite of conversation today would be considerd most profane 100 years ago. there will always be people behind the curve of popular language, those people will in many situations just be spoken to diffrently to avoid conflict, but it wont slow down the evolution of the english language. -dave .p

@ tinderbox:

and what, exactly, would you say the chances of THAT are?

lasse: still better then anyone elses solutions.

MCLMM.