Cursing/Swearing without really Cursing/Swearing

nancymae · Post by **nancymae** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:50 pm

That was funny Pat....although I would NEVER put my whistle through the torture of putting that in other's anatomy.......my whistles are tooo precious to be wasted on the ignoramous's of this world!!

Now...my recorders...THAT'S A DIFFERENT STORY!!

It's almost quittin time,

and Miller time,
Nancy

TelegramSam · Post by **TelegramSam** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 4:34 pm

Father Jack from <i>Father Ted</i>'s entire vocabulary:

"Feck! Drink! sh*t! Girls!"

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:53 pm

Pat Cannady wrote:Nurse! Cranio-rectal extraction kit STAT!

Now that's funny!

A couple made up for TV shows:
"Sit on it!"
"Kiss my grits!"

My favorite adjective: blag-stagggin' (from Pogo)

anniemcu · Post by **anniemcu** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:20 pm

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"

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:00 pm

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

Darwin · Post by **Darwin** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 12:48 am

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.

CHIFF FIPPLE · Post by **CHIFF FIPPLE** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 2:19 am

Stuff it i'm no gettin in ta this :roll:

fluter_d · Post by **fluter_d** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:27 am

For years, my mother would say "Sugar honey ice tea!" when something was going wrong. It only dawned on me recently what you end up with if you only use the first letter of each... She has since given up and is more direct and forceful, when the occasion arises.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:32 am

I like Winnie the Pooh's "Oh bother."

I heard my brother in law call a guy a "rectal orifice" once. I thought that was the most artistic insult I ever heard.

TonyHiggins · Post by **TonyHiggins** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:43 am

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

IDAwHOa · Post by **IDAwHOa** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:45 pm

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:

Sugar honey ice tea!

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?

How about you, do you mask your curse words for this reason? If you do, why?

fancypiper · Post by **fancypiper** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 9:44 pm

Pease up your birdie!

Whistling Willie · Post by **Whistling Willie** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:00 pm

EAT MY GOAL

GO GET YOUR HEAD READ

vomitbunny · Post by **vomitbunny** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:03 pm

Mother Pus Bucket.

lyrick · Post by **lyrick** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 10:21 pm

My dad would say "Jesus H. Christ !". I guess he didn't think he was using THE Jesus' name as a curse, but instead this other guy named Jesus H. Christ.