The construction crew was busy building a new section onto a convent. One day the mother superior came out to the job foreman and complained about the language the men were using. She explained that the sisters there wer highly offended and that they had never heard such language. The foreman listen for awhile and then explained: Mother you must understand these are hard working men and , well, they are just used to calling a spade a spade. That's just it she said they don't. They call it a fucking shovel