Back in the day many people used the word Rats to express their disdain. A stubbed toe, a failed marriage, a burn, a firing, or a misplacement of one's car keys might have elicited the word Rats. The word Rats was an umbrella term that served the needs of many disgruntled people in the 1980s, but has since been replaced with a more appropriate expression.
The words mother fucker are now more acceptable in our society. I spoke to a man who had fallen down a flight of stairs the other day. When he came to, the first words out of his mouth were a very audible mother fucker. In a similar vein, a pretty woman had gone to the grocery store only to find out that her favorite cereal had recently been out of stock. She exclaimed mother fucker and left the store in a huff to pick up her poodle from the groomer.
I had to go to a little town in Idaho to find someone who had used the expression Rats. The older woman had burned a tuna casserole and had muttered Rats to her husband who was sitting in his rocking chair with a bottle of stale beer.
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