Cursing/Swearing without really Cursing/Swearing
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Father Jack from <i>Father Ted</i>'s entire vocabulary:
"Feck! Drink! sh*t! Girls!"
"Feck! Drink! sh*t! Girls!"
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My momma was fond of the "I site ye the fecal matter of an adult male bovine" school of insult and seft swipe... it usually went right over the head of whomever was targeted, but it left a stain, LOL...
I'm all too adept at the down and dirty, single sylable stuff, but prefer to carry on her tradition.
One of my favorites is diagnosing cases of "severe cerebral-anal inversion"
I'm all too adept at the down and dirty, single sylable stuff, but prefer to carry on her tradition.
One of my favorites is diagnosing cases of "severe cerebral-anal inversion"
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I was working at a group home for disturbed teens and a counselor was sitting at a desk doing paper work. He looked around for a stapler or something and couldn't find one because another worker had moved it. He issued an utterance with all the intensity and bile I'd ever witnessed: "Frickin frack!" I thought, 'I'll have to remember that.' It was powerful.
My mom (that sweet little woman the Chiff gatherers met) back in the day,when we used to annoy her, would go, "Go to Blazes!" or "Go to Hades" (pronounced hay days). I've never heard her actually use an official cuss word in my entire life. My favorite outburst of hers was, "Ill box your ears for you."
Tony
My mom (that sweet little woman the Chiff gatherers met) back in the day,when we used to annoy her, would go, "Go to Blazes!" or "Go to Hades" (pronounced hay days). I've never heard her actually use an official cuss word in my entire life. My favorite outburst of hers was, "Ill box your ears for you."
Tony
http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/newspage.htm Officially, the government uses the term “flap,” describing it as “a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions.”
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I don't recall ever hearing a strong word from my father, though I'm sure he must have uttered the occasional "Darn!" or "Doggone it!"
My mother, on the other hand, was prone to get quite rowdy, with "Oh, fudge!" and "Oh, sugar!" When pushed to the limit, she sometimes cut loose with "Heck, heck, heck!"
When she'd really lose it and come out with "Damn it!", my father would try to remind her to restrain herself, saying, "Now Inez..." (for that was her name).
I guess this kind of thing is hereditary, because I often use strong phrasing, like "Dang it!" or even "Blast it all to heck!" I'm sure I got that from my mother. I always tried to avoid that kind of language in front of the kids, though.
My mother, on the other hand, was prone to get quite rowdy, with "Oh, fudge!" and "Oh, sugar!" When pushed to the limit, she sometimes cut loose with "Heck, heck, heck!"
When she'd really lose it and come out with "Damn it!", my father would try to remind her to restrain herself, saying, "Now Inez..." (for that was her name).
I guess this kind of thing is hereditary, because I often use strong phrasing, like "Dang it!" or even "Blast it all to heck!" I'm sure I got that from my mother. I always tried to avoid that kind of language in front of the kids, though.
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Stuff it i'm no gettin in ta this :roll:
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Understating can be very powerful when used judiciously. I was at a minister's house for dinner. After dinner, the minister, I, and a good friend of his, a computer genius, were sitting in the den discussing the computer, eating brownies and ice cream, or something like that. The computer guy drops some off his fork to the carpet, looks with dismay, and says, in a tone like someone just died, "Oh, no." I'd have given him an Academy Award.
Tony
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http://tinwhistletunes.com/clipssnip/newspage.htm Officially, the government uses the term “flap,” describing it as “a condition, a situation or a state of being, of a group of persons, characterized by an advanced degree of confusion that has not quite reached panic proportions.”
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- Tell us something.: I play whistles. I sell whistles. This seems just a BIT excessive to the cause. A sentence or two is WAY less than 100 characters.
Seems we are all quite creative in disguising our anger, frustrations and fears behind words that seem to be benign, but have a totally different meaning when taken in context. How do you feel about the thought that no matter how innocent or masked the substitute word(s) is that it could still be considered a curse word if its true intent is to, well, curse?
For example:
fluter_d's moter would say:
How about you, do you mask your curse words for this reason? If you do, why?
For example:
fluter_d's moter would say:
Even though each of the words taken individually have no significant meaning, all told they truely are an expression of cursing. Does this person really think they are getting out of the "curse" paradigm by doing this?Sugar honey ice tea!
How about you, do you mask your curse words for this reason? If you do, why?
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