Swear Words

[Aphos]

Some time back an essay in a neopagan mag covered the use of blasphemy. The writer felt that if one is going to take the name of a deity in vain, it really ought to be a deity that s/he has no regard for. (Very sensible suggestion, eh what?) Writer's favorite swear: Satan take my bicycle!

I like it.   

So, is the writer's bicycle now possessed?

[Aggie]

One I picked up via DD (?I think?) that I like is "Morris Dancing Autofellator". 


I don't WANT Satan to take my bicycle.  That one also fails the regard test.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

I have deliberately taken to learning to replacing "Oh my god" with "Oh my stars", in a nod to an old favorite TV show, Bewitched.

I've also been known to say "science dammit" in a deliberate nod to South Park.

Sometimes, I use the word "taxation" like a swear word-- it seems fitting.  This is from L.Neil Smith's fictional universe.

If one cannot have some fun while one is swearing, what's the point? 

[pieces o nine]

Some time back an essay in a neopagan mag covered the use of blasphemy. The writer felt that if one is going to take the name of a deity in vain, it really ought to be a deity that s/he has no regard for. (Very sensible suggestion, eh what?) Writer's favorite swear: Satan take my bicycle!

I like it.   

So, is the writer's bicycle now possessed?

I  would say not.
Although, in some cultures, it might explain this.

If one cannot have some fun while one is swearing, what's the point?

Eddie Izzard singing, "Blas-phe-my, Blas-for-you, Blas for ev-ry-body in the room."

[Pachyderm]

I try not to swear too much. I usually fail in this regard. I usually tell people to "go forth and multiply" if youngsters are around.

[anthrobabe]

Just here to learn some new ones  I'm learning some new ones. Go forth and multiply has real potential, and satan take my bicycle.... nice

anyway-- I try not to spell out swear/cuss words, especially around here- I have respect for you all and so try to be nice. Not always but try. I do like a good euphanism-- nothing beats them for getting attention and all, words like  s*** and d*** and b**** are almost common usage now os they don't have the impact but a good euphanism can have impact.

I particularly love English,British,Australian swears--- but of course I must remember that many I am familiar with come from TV and might be outdated and are in fact offensive to people just like c*** and such would be to myself...... I however think that Bl**dy is the greatest freaking swear word of all frocking time!

I am really bad with the f-bomb, I had broken myself at one time of it when I worked in the pharmacy by every time I uttered it I would make an X on a piece of paper and put the paper in my pocket-- I WAS KILLING FORESTS- so I got better, but it is creeping back. Ok honestly, I curse like a sailor (fits sort of being a pirate wench and all) but I still feel like I should not do so as much as I do.

I was never hugely big on punishing my daughters for 'naughty' language- more of they type of parent to teach them an alternative and that somethings we do in private. So yes they can and will curse with the best of them--they are also true ladies!

I would be honestly interested in what the anthrochild has to say on this subject... I am so fuckin busted

[Aggie]

I however think that Bl**dy is the greatest freaking swear word of all frocking time! 

*rumble*

Forgot that used to be a serious swear, I use it often.  One interesting phrase (from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series) I like is "bloody buttered onions".  It's a good muttering swear.

Oh, I'm reminded that I very much enjoy using f-word phrases more than by itself:

F__k around!  (favorite for great annoyance)
For F's Sake
F a Duck (previously mentioned)
Bloody F_ing Hell
F__k @$$ (with a nod to Boondock Saints)
Ow, F_ck!  (most common for sudden pain, i.e. hitting thumb with hammer)

and very occasionally Adam Sandler's classic "F_ck me in the goat ass!  Sh_t!"

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Okay, if we're gonna list some, here are some that I use in traffic, at that idiot who NEVER, EVER uses his turn signal...

~sswipe  (I started this one, because of the movie Coming To America, and the scene where the Prince (Eddie Murphy) was Going To The Bathroom.  At the very end of that scene, his handler shouts, "Wipers!")

~sswipe residue (a natural expansion of the above)

sh** stain (thanks, George Carlin)

b#tt f##k (why I think this is a good swear, I dunno.  Some folk apparently like this.  But, I'm usually thinking of a prison situation, so...)

sh** head (a classic)

sh** eater (a variant of these)

You'll notice that I tend to equate other drivers with waste products alot.  I suppose it is a commentary on their value to society, among other things.

Then, there are the milder ones

jerk o##
numbnuts
brainless
mindless
... and so forth.

Traffic is SUCH an opportunity for swearing-- I used to try to hold all this in, and I developed Ulcerative Colitis.  Not Good. Now, I let it out at the all-too-deserving drivers, and I am symptom free.   Have been for years.

[Griffin NoName]

I am delighted this is a popular topic

[pieces o nine]

Oi finks ye means yer effin deloighted this be such a bloody popyular topic.

[beagle]

I never swear or have impure thoughts. But I do lie.

[Sibling Chatty]

One that just confuses the hell outta people...

Damn You!! Damn your tricycle!!

Use them together, and nobody remembers the damn YOU, they just want to know what the tricycle has to do with anything.

Yeah, Morris Dancing Autofellator was mine. Also used for the confusion factor.

My usual one is rassnfrassn. Like "Would you get that rassnfrassn piece of Caddilac crap outta the middle of the rassnfrassn road??" I actually yelled that at a car that was blocking 3 lanes--and then I remembered the windows were down.

I also use "turkoid". Used to say "he's such a turkey" in reference to the mindlessness of someone that probably WOULD stand in the rain looking up, mouth open, until he drowned. (Commercially bred turkeys do that.) It modulated into "that person of the turkoid persuasion" then just became turkoid, or possibly turkitudinal. ("Such a turkitudinal way to look at global warming. If Da Preznit gets his way, the planet's a goner by Christmas." I actually said that in another forum the other day. It's OK, they're used to me.)

Tonight at dinner, I got a huge laugh when I said "I don't give a rodent's rectum..." about something. Some folks are just easily amused...

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Po9...Re: Gorey....WANT!! I love Gorey Storeys, and Amphigorey and all the rest. One of my all time faves.

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Traffic leads to lots of f__k you, once, twice, thrice!, F_cking f_uckers, and combinations thereof.

One that's very popular right now around here is "f_ck your couch."

I also used to call people 'smacktards' a lot. Tend to call people douche bags now.

I'm nicking 'go forth and multipy.'

[Aphos]

For mild swearing (that which is not deeply emotional) I have picked up "frack" and "frackin'" from Battlestar Galactica.

[The Meromorph]

My all-time favorite is 'f*** my mothers underwear'. 
Second is 'Oh my rumpled feathers'.