Thumma said it's a clear effort to avoid some of the stereotypes about Southerners, such as negative perceptions of their racial views or reputed "damn-us-all-to-hell" fundamentalism.

NPR: Southern Baptists Expand North With Church Plants

But small companies won't give a damn, if - like their German and US counterparts - they get access to loans that can't and won't be withdrawn as and when they and the economy catch another cold.

BBC: Cable rehabilitates investment banking

We think we can get murders down twenty five percent, we think we can get serious crime down ten percent, we think we can get the reputation of this department back and if we think we can do a damn good job of preventing acts of terrorism in this city but give us that chance.

BBC

Damn, it's only been a week since the Sony dropped the PlayStation Portable on us and people already pieced together a ton of different hacks and how-tos for the new game console.

ENGADGET: PSP hacks roundup

Most of us chuckle that it was considered a big deal for Clark Gable to say "damn" in "Gone With the Wind" -- or that a newspaper wouldn't have allowed me to use that word in print.

CNN: Ban swearing? No way