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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 29 Nov 05 - 12:42 AM Just saying it in french sometimes will suffice. As in Oh, merde! Or in German-- "shite" ;-) On that same note, thanks to Utah Phillips, I often say, "Good though!" when I wish to intimate that something is actually S**T. Around the time when Roberta had the big hit of Ewan's song for Peggy, I often might be heard to say: Let's get the Flack out of here ! Or, when the sheep all stopped on the road, one might intone, "Hey, get the the flock out of here !" Or, if Viagra didn't work for you, it might be said that you were feckless... (...and other words of that ilk...) And W.C. Fields, in a comedy short film, instead of swearing said: "GODFREY DANIELS !!" -------- And then, later, they named a folk club that. A friend used to say, "Pig Slop". That was a good expletive in a pinch. Or you could tell some "anus"(another one), "Hey, fella, you are full of what is brown and sounds like a bell !!!" Then, when they can't think of the answer to the riddle and must ask you to supply it, you reply, quite loudly, and with much r-e-s-o-n-a-n-c-e, (((("DUNG" !!!!!!))) ! And, last, to mix current thread topics, you might say, "OH, BEANS !!" --- when you really mean something else. Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 29 Nov 05 - 12:49 AM I just got this from Kendall's C.I.A. thread! horse pucky! Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 29 Nov 05 - 12:55 AM ...and I just thought of what Gordy Howe said when he shot it down the ice. "Let's get the puck outa here." I bet Shakespeare once said that too. Art (yet again) |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Arne Langsetmo Date: 29 Nov 05 - 04:44 AM
Ummmm, oh, you said "G-rated swear words", not "grated swear words". Need to check my glasses. Nevermind...... Cheers, |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Dáithí Ó Geanainn Date: 29 Nov 05 - 05:45 AM What does "g rated " actually mean, please? |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: RangerSteve Date: 29 Nov 05 - 02:53 PM LYDIA PINKHAM!!! GLORIOSKI!!! SUFFERING BALD-HEADED CHRIST!!!! (got that one from an old sea-faring novel, but I don't remember the name). I'd love to get a copy of the script for "A Christmas Story" and see what the old man is yelling when he's trying to fix the furnace. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: George Papavgeris Date: 29 Nov 05 - 03:25 PM A lot of the euphemisms for swearwords were created in the US, I believe. Perhaps something about the puritanical movements being stronger there in the past (compared to the UK)? Don't know, I am only supposing. But new ones are nowadays being created in the UK, and one of the most prolific creators of such is the British author Terry Pratchett (whose writings just crack me up). Perhaps because he started writing for children, but wanted his books to be enjoyed by grownups as well, he has developed a nice line in innocent swearing. My favourite is: "Millenium hand and shrimp!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 29 Nov 05 - 04:06 PM "G" rated is an American term for something that is appropriate for the general public. Like war? :-) One of my long-term friends used to say "Jeepers" when he was a kid, but his Mother thought it was short for Jesus, and forbid him using it. He didn't mean it that way (and his Mother was everything but religious) so he just shortened it to "Jeeps." Last summer, we were out in Wisconsin to celebrate my Mother's birthday and my friend came to the party. When I reminded him of this, the mystery was made clear to his wife, who never understood where the word "Jeeps" came from... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Art Thieme Date: 29 Nov 05 - 09:53 PM An aside. Jerry, Did you get my e-letter? Art |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: bobad Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:33 PM To quote one of Canada's better former PM's: "Fuddle Duddle" To quote Snagglepuss: "Thufferin' Thuccotash" |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Joe_F Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:34 PM Horsefeathers! --- Joe Fineman joe_f@verizon.net ||: Pain proves you're alive. :|| |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:35 PM Another aside... yes I did, Art: Thanks so much.. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Peace Date: 29 Nov 05 - 10:35 PM Then I am definitely alive, Joe. Rats. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Azizi Date: 30 Nov 05 - 12:02 AM I'm just partial to the letter 'z'. So I've no idea how I could have forgotten the G rated swear word "Zounds!" It took this site to remind me of that word: The Evolution of Profanity Warning: That site has a rather unsettling advertisement above its interesting reading material, at least on my computer. Disclaimer-the woman in that ad is DEFINITELY not me!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Azizi Date: 30 Nov 05 - 12:15 AM I see that no one has dragged politics into this fun discussion, but what the hey.. Here's an example of contemporary swear words that is as dirty as dirty can be: "Go Cheney yourself!" [Ooh! I gotta wash my mouth out with soap after sayin that one!] |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 30 Nov 05 - 04:24 AM Ah Pratchet! "And the new day was a great big fish" (it loses something in the translation!) |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: wordfella Date: 30 Nov 05 - 10:02 AM Mark Twain had some good ones: "get out of my way, you whey-eating, toad-faced puke!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Big Jim from Jackson Date: 30 Nov 05 - 11:08 AM In my army days I had the privilege of serving with an Hispanic Sgt. He was in his 50's and had only recently started a family. Being a career man, he had picked up the habit of cursing---something he didn't want to pass on to his kids. So he substituted the word "gardinia", the name of a flower. It was gardinia this and gardinia that for the 19 months I served with him. He only slipped up twice, to my knowledge. On those two occasions he had become increasingly frustrated about something and finally exploded, "Gardinia! F--- it!" We who worked with him collapsed on the floor with laughter. I guess you had to be there and know him. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: katlaughing Date: 21 Jan 07 - 09:56 PM Has anyone an idea of where the word "crime-i-netly" (probablay spelled "criminetly")came from? We used to always use it, usually in exasperation. Hadn't thought of it in years until the other day; then wondered where in the world my family had got it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Jan 07 - 10:02 PM From "Holy Crime in Italy"...........You can figure it out from there!(:<)) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Bill D Date: 21 Jan 07 - 10:43 PM that's crime-i-NENT-ly...*grin* My sainted mother would tell you, if I could reach her. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: dick greenhaus Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:06 PM My daughter, when she was four, felt that "abominable" (pronounced "'bominable")was the height of bad language. And I've been known to utter a percussive "Ketchup!" when annoyed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:13 PM My mother rarely said swear words, but she often used first-letter abbreviations like, "SOB", for "Son of a bitch", in their place. As kids, we knew we'd get in trouble for even using such abbreviations, but we were pretty smart little brats so we worked out a "system". Since "SOB" spelled the word "sob" which was pronounced just like the automobile brand "Saab", we called each other "Swedish automobiles". Mom also said "SA" for "shitass", and "SA" sounded just like "essay", so we called each other "writing assignments". |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Scoville Date: 21 Jan 07 - 11:53 PM My grandmother: Oh, f*ck it was: Piffleberries Fiddlesticks Bullsh*t: Horse puckey Horsefeathers Assh*le: Horse's patoot [sp?] I don't know why she picked on horses so much, though. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: katlaughing Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:05 AM Surely you jest, Spaw? BillD, really? We don't pronounce that second "n" or if we do it's very soft. We also say "criminy." Wonder if "cripes" came from it, too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Bert Date: 22 Jan 07 - 01:17 AM Cheeses! |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Helen Date: 22 Jan 07 - 04:08 PM My Grandma, born in Wales, used to say "ych a fi" (pronounced emphatically as uck a vee) on a lot of occasions to express frustration or annoyance. Apparently it is meaningless, like "oh me, oh my". A friend of ours uses "what the flock?" and flocking, and my hubby says ferckling, which is said slowly. He uses the f-word extremely rarely, and it is a gauge of how spitting mad he is if he uses it. Like, get-out-of-his-way mad. Which reminds me of one of Oz's funniest, cleverest comedian/satirists, John Clarke. He did a long, straight faced monologue on a fictional sport called farnarkling. Dag is a useful Oz term, originally meaning the bits of poo which hang off the wool near a sheep's behind, but now transmogrified into a useful term to describe a person who is silly, or nerdy. Daggy is used to describe clothing or style which no one would be seen dead in. What about the Brit term, flippin' 'eck (flipping heck)? And Foolestroope seems to have invented a new exclamation: Ah, Pratchett! Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Scoville Date: 22 Jan 07 - 04:30 PM I'm not sure this is G-rated but I had a college friend who used to say, "Jesus Christ on a bicycle". My supervisor has a whole raft of swear-less swear expressions, which surprises me a bit because I've heard her use the real ones if she gets mad enough. "Good NIGHT", "my gracious", that sort of thing, said with LOTS of EMPHASIS. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Desdemona Date: 22 Jan 07 - 04:31 PM Well, baste my steaming puddings (lifted from Blackadder; "only steal from the best," I say)! ~D |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 22 Jan 07 - 05:11 PM "Crikey!". Or for extra emphasis, "Crikey Moses!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Scoville Date: 22 Jan 07 - 08:48 PM Oh, and "oofy". She says "oofy" constantly. Drives me nuts. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Joe_F Date: 22 Jan 07 - 09:38 PM It may add to the expressiveness of "drat" to know that it was originally short for "God rot it". |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Amos Date: 22 Jan 07 - 09:58 PM Azizi: Not to wallop anyone's cod or anything, but your "source reference" essay is pretty far off the mark, I am sure, when it states that written profanity began in the 16th century. I am quite sure there was plenty of it around before then. A |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: heric Date: 22 Jan 07 - 11:36 PM Holy Sacramento! |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,Al Date: 22 Jan 07 - 11:42 PM Dad gum it! |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Bugsy Date: 23 Jan 07 - 12:04 AM "Ye Gods and little fishes!" (My Dad) Or as quoted in the film "Johnny Dangerously" - "You Fargon Bastitch, I'm gonna rip your Bells off and stuff 'em up your Icehole!" Don't ya just Luv it!? CHeers Bugsy |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: katlaughing Date: 23 Jan 07 - 12:11 AM LOL, Bugsy! Right you are, Amos. From This Site, see the paragraph entitled "The Psychology of Profanity." (And, that's to say nothing of ancient China, Greece, Rome, etc.) Here's a snippet with the "words" in bold (my emphasis): "The history of profanity is closely connected with the history of religion, since profanity prevailed at those times and among those people where great sacredness attached to the names of the gods, or to matters of religion. In England, for instance, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, after the monkish teaching had implanted a vivid consciousness of the suprasanctity of the body of Christ, and of every scene connected with His death, there burst upon the country a wave of imprecation in which profane use was made of the body and members and wounds of Christ, and of many things connected with His sufferings. Fossil remains of these oaths have come down to us in such expressions as 'zounds,' 's'death,' 'bodikins,' 'odsbodikins,' etc. The significance of this historical circumstance will be seen when we discover that the psychological value of an oath depends upon the force of the 'shock' which it is capable of giving. The occasion of profanity in general is a situation in which there is a high degree of emotion, usually of the aggressive type, accompanied by a certain feeling of helplessness." |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Joe Offer Date: 23 Jan 07 - 03:22 AM My favorite nun says, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" - but in moderation, of course. She's in her late 70's, so it works. My ex was in the convent for 18 months, before I knew her. She was taught to say, "Stars!" but she sure as hell didn't say that to ME. I kinda like "Dwat!" -Joe- |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Splott Man Date: 23 Jan 07 - 04:19 AM Shoot! Gordon Bennett! |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jan 07 - 09:39 AM There's nothing like "Leapin' Lizards!" or "Mercy Maud!" to really clear the air in a stressful situation. Lately, when I've gotten irritated I been saying "Bush, bush, bush!" I'm not sure why but it makes me feel better. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Greg B Date: 23 Jan 07 - 09:50 AM What about 'strewth!' Also happens to be the name of the flavor of Fisherman's Friend throat lozenges... |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: katlaughing Date: 23 Jan 07 - 10:53 AM "Dwat!" sounds too close to "twat" for my taste, Joe!**bg** My grandson's fav. right now is "Holy cow!" We also use "Jeez Louise!" My neice's toddler learned "Oh, bucket" as that is what she and her husband used around him. She had to teach him to unlearn it when he got to school and heard the *other* version. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Jan 07 - 11:07 AM "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!" - that's not profanity, it's prayer. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST, heric Date: 23 Jan 07 - 11:41 AM Alfalafa: I'm sorry I called you a barf-encrusted jumbo-jerk. Spanky: You didn't call me a barf-encrusted jumbo-jerk. Alfalfa: Oh. Well. . . . I guess I was just thinking it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Helen Date: 23 Jan 07 - 05:51 PM GregB, 'Strewth, is supposed to come from God's truth, so similar to zounds, etc. What about the cartoon expression: Curses! It reminds me of the line in one of DH Lawrence's novels, Lady Chatterley I think. He wrote something to the effect of making love/having sex is like a row of asterixes across a page. He was referring to the censorship of his novels, where the censors would replace written passages with a row of asterixes, so by referring to that he was effectively telling his readers to imagine the part of the story that was being censored whenever they saw those asterixes. So saying the word "Curses!" is doing the same thing, allowing the audience to imagine what would really have been said. I have a really interesting book by Nancy Keesing called Lily on the Dustbin, which is about the sayings which are considered okay in family settings but which have implied meanings. They aren't all swear words. My favourite saying from the book is "as scarce as rocking horse poo". It makes me laugh everytime I hear it, or say it. I remember when I was working in the library and I was answering a phone enquiry about a specific car manual, and I said that manuals for that brand of car were "as scare as rocking ... horse.. er.." and the customer said, "shit?" I apologised and said I wasn't supposed to say things like that to customers. He laughed. I'll have to hunt my Keesing book out and see what else it can contribute to this thread. Helen |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: katlaughing Date: 23 Jan 07 - 06:13 PM That sounds like a fun book, Helen. Reminds me of a friend whose mother, quite elderly, still refers to her privates as her "musn't touch it!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Amos Date: 23 Jan 07 - 06:25 PM Grated swearwords have several disadvantages. For on thing they have to be produced at very low temperatures, in order to be grated at all. Otherwise it is like trying to carve up a fart -- it ain't gonna happen. You have to get down to mid-winter-in-Minnesota type temps. Them you can grate them. But there's no telling precisely where they are going to parse when grated unless you use a sub-morphemic electron grater, and you know what they cost. No, a normal grater has to serve but you can't predict where the syllables are going to fall. My granny tried this one winter, because she hated hearing Gampa Huntington cuss so much. So she followed him around one sub-zero winter morning, while he was doin' chores, and snatched up all his swear words in a rusty milk bucket and grated 'em up, and then threw them out into a snowbank outside the kitchen. Come first thaw that late March, they were both woken straight up out of bed when a late night early Spring high-pressure area moved in and all those grated cuss words began to soften up. They couldn't figure it out for hours -- every few seconds they'd hear these loud phonemes exploding under the pressure of expansion, all around the yard. "Uck!! Odam!! Gah! Gah!! Muv!! AM!! AMITAL!! therfuh!! uckin sonova!! iddle-bast!! bit!! vabit!! erfuh!! AM!!" It went on fer hours before they could get back to sleep. One good thing -- after that, Grampa always checked the thermometr before he let loose, and Gramma saves her grater for walnuts and sometimes Jarlsberg. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: GUEST,jaze Date: 23 Jan 07 - 07:18 PM "Motherless"-as in "That motherless computer ..." As opposed to that motherf...ing computer. But it has to be said in just the right way and it sounds like a curse. People at work are shocked, horrified even, until they realize what I actually said, then they laugh. |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: Charley Noble Date: 23 Jan 07 - 07:37 PM Arlo Guthrie amused my generation by referring to his companions on the "Group W" bench as "mean and nasty father-rapers" in his classic "Alice's Restaurant" song. Apparently one could send that out over the airwaves without fear of censorship. Now practically any word or phrase can get recorded and played over the public air waves. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: G rated swear words From: katlaughing Date: 23 Jan 07 - 07:40 PM jaze, I've even heard it carried a bit further with "motherless son of a..." which might take a moment, but usually folks break out laughing, too. |
