Martin Milner wrote:I invent a Rilj new swear-tidg-ing every couple of yamping hours, how come it takes a klimping bunch of grelling scientists so snedgley long?
It'll never chudding catch on, mind.
Yamp off, man. ...*ow*, my side is hurting... anybody got any duct tape?
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djm wrote:There was a story this morning of how the latest Doonesbury cartoon has been dropped from most dailies as it has George W referring to a recent political appointment as, I think it was, a "turd flower".
That's the one. I was half asleep when they were laughing about this on the radio this morning. Still, "turd blossom" is rather compelling, don't you think?
djm
I'd rather be atop the foothills than beneath them.
Sci-fi TV shows have been inventing alternative swear words for years. Frak ("Oh, frak!"), frag ("Abso-fraggin-lutely!"), etc..
When my wife is especially PO'ed, she tends to use what we call "The Litany", which is four common swear words strung together into a single emphatic curse: D***S***H***F***!!!
Giles: "We few, we happy few."
Spike: "We band of buggered."
djm wrote:That's the one. I was half asleep when they were laughing about this on the radio this morning. Still, "turd blossom" is rather compelling, don't you think?
djm
It's made all the better by being true!
Here's an article from The Guardian dated in 2003:
Profile: Karl Rove
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Boy Genius or Turd Blossom?
Julian Borger in Washington
Thursday October 2, 2003
The Guardian
When George Bush moved into the White House in January 2001, the man who got him there, Karl Rove, chose Hillary Clinton's office for himself.
It was a telling choice. The partnership between the president and the man he calls Boy Genius (or on bad days Turd Blossom) is the political marriage at the heart of the Bush administration.
Now, with the Democrats and the Washington press corps scenting blood over the CIA leak scandal, the big question for Mr Bush is whether that marriage will have to be sacrificed in the interests of his re-election.
The partnership between the president and the man he calls Boy Genius (or on bad days Turd Blossom) is the political marriage at the heart of the Bush administration.
So the Prez still conducts himself like a frat boy.
scientists inventing swearwords? they should get the gangs to invent them! they do a [insert swearword] good job of it on a daily basis with little gov't funding
the brave do not live forever,
but the cautious do not live at all.
Nah - around here, they use five words constantly, over and over. In fact - I thought it would be interesting if we could somehow remove those words from the language and see if they could still talk at all!
One of my favorites from someone at work:
Bull Twinkies!
djm wrote:There was a story this morning of how the latest Doonesbury cartoon has been dropped from most dailies as it has George W referring to a recent political appointment as, I think it was, a "turd flower".
djm
We had those here, in The Guardian. Doonesbury can be sublime...
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
Oh, dammit, I've just let slip that I'm a Guardian reader. That'll explain to many why I sound like a woolly-minded liberal. I have a beard and wear sandals too.
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
SteveShaw wrote:Oh, dammit, I've just let slip that I'm a Guardian reader. That'll explain to many why I sound like a woolly-minded liberal. I have a beard and wear sandals too.
Heh! I was just thinking that meself, ya lefty pinko! Grauniad reader indeed!
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
