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Post by orionsrose on Apr 14, 2023 20:06:27 GMT
I have been thinking of posting this for awhile, but kept forgetting and then pennmom and I were discussing the use of the word "fork" as a swear-alternative and I remembered! I don't like swearing so I love when shows/movies come up with creative alternatives and I wanted to ask what other funny swear-alternatives people have heard, read, or used.
The show "The Good Place" has played with this concept to hilarious results.
So what are some you've come across?
My personal favorites are: "fudge knuckles" from Claire Nuñez on Trollhunters
"son of a half-troll, rat-eating, munge-bucket" from Astrid on How to Train Your Dragon
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Post by pennmom on Apr 14, 2023 21:27:08 GMT
orionsrose , Should I admit my hubby has a license plate that say FLlCK IT (that's F L l C K I T so getchore mind outta the gutters) Rolling Along
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Post by gracie713 on Jul 6, 2023 15:12:30 GMT
I came up with "QUELF!", which can mean several things, meaning the mashing and mangling of different languages.
'Que le fook'
'Que la fox'
etc...you can decipher at will. It works as a hard swear, or a softly spoken question indicating confusion.
I've also used it as a screaming indicator of pee-in-your-pants-ready-to-faint-time when I saw a spider the size of a Volkswagen scurry under my bed.
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Post by pennmom on Jul 6, 2023 15:23:38 GMT
gracie713, What the QUELF! How big was this forking spider? Step aside, I gotch yor back! 
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Post by lisabella on Jul 6, 2023 16:50:10 GMT
Due to the young child in our midst, we've had to be creative. Apple is what we use for a**. I don't how we settled on that and not donkey.
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Post by pennmom on Jul 6, 2023 19:29:32 GMT
Due to the young child in our midst, we've had to be creative. Apple is what we use for a**. I don't how we settled on that and not donkey. A donkey's apple Rolling Along We used to watch a lot of movies and had to yell "earmuffs" all the time, nowadays, most movies, even PG have a ton of curse words, they would be covering their ears so much it would look like we were playing a game of Simon Says & twister at the same time! |
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Post by lisabella on Jul 6, 2023 19:40:56 GMT
We used to watch a lot of movies and had to yell "earmuffs" all the time, nowadays, most movies, even PG have a ton of curse words, they would be covering their ears so much it would look like we were playing a game of Simon Says & twister at the same time! I can picture that. lol We were spelling curse words but now he can spell. One of my favorite line's from a TV show is "Holy Fourth of July weenie roast!" We use it frequently. |
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Post by moni on Jul 8, 2023 19:47:09 GMT
My favorite is from the movie Johnny Dangerously
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Post by Valkara on Jul 10, 2023 9:09:10 GMT
orionsrose , Should I admit my hubby has a license plate that say FLlCK IT (that's F L l C K I T so getchore mind outta the gutters) Rolling Along That would be disallowed here, due to people perceiving it as the "f-word", as that's what it does look like at a quick glance. I once sorta slipped the "f-word" into a thread title on the Civilization gaming forum I belong to. I post in the Off-Topic forum in the Colosseum section of the forum, and we have a number of serial threads that get locked and archived when they reach post #1000. The person who made the 1000th post gets to start the next one. So I had the honor of starting the latest Random Rants thread. These titles start out "Random _____ # ___" (insert clever title). We have Random Rants, Random Raves, Random Thoughts, and the other day someone quipped that we should have one for Random Ranches because a brief discussion of mayonnaise and salad dressing resulted in an intense argument about Ranch dressing. Anyway, I'd been having an aggravating past few days, we were in the early days of the pandemic and everyone was nervous and on edge, so I decided to call my thread "OH, FUDDLE-DUDDLE!" The story behind "fuddle-duddle" is that it's what Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau claimed he'd said in Parliament when it was obvious that he'd uttered a different word starting with "f". Nobody could definitively prove that he'd said the "f-word" but those near enough to hear him mutter or try to read his lips were convinced he had said it. Therefore, "fuddle-duddle" is Canadian slang for the "f-word". But the American, UK, European, and New Zealand-based staff at this forum didn't know that, so they let my title go without comment and none of the Canadian members reported it (I may be the only Canadian member there old enough to remember the scandal when it actually happened). So I am the only person there to ever get away with calling a thread "OH, F***!"
Now... different word. I had a friend who wanted to be able to swear but not teach her grandchildren 'those words'. So she used "ship!" instead of the obvious other word. What she didn't realize is that her grandchildren weren't stupid. They caught on fairly quickly, so one day when she got exasperated, she bellowed, "SHIP!" To which one of her granddaughters responded, "GRANDMA!" |
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Post by orionsrose on Jul 17, 2023 4:18:03 GMT
I've learned a new one this past week... fluff off!  This probably isn't really new, but I only heard it this week as I've become obsessed with this YouTube channel: Girl With The DogsI'm trying to learn to better care for the coats of my 5 pets, and since Miss Téa has an unusual coat of fluffy/kinky/curly long hair that mats a lot, I needed some help. I've learned so much in addition to my new swear-alternative! Did you ever groom cats pennmom ? I have a whole new admiration for you, knowing you were a groomer. It must have been very hard work. |
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