Boing Boing offered this link, so I'm offering it to you. It contains an expletive that is written, but bleeped when it's spoken. Odd notion of how to handle expletives in polite company.
http://safwatsaleem.com/#2498776/Oh-Shit
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A better approximation of the sort expletive expressed is: "this is it, we all going to die!"
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