Vice President Dick Cheney dropped the f-bomb on Tuesday in an exchange with Senator Patrick Leahy.

“I felt better afterward,” Cheney told FoxNews, explaining that he doesn’t normally use such language.

“I think he was just having a bad day,” Leahy later told the media.

The unexpected profanity on the Senate floor has caused commotion in the media as editors try to decide which glyphs should replace the actual profanity.

The Sun Times went with “f—” in its article, but not its headline (“VP has no f***n’ patience for senator”). The Kansas City Star went with headline “Says the veep to the senator,