Wednesday, December 8, 2010

"Happy" Swearing.

Back in school, one of my teachers told me that dropping F bombs was a sign of low intelligence.  His thought (I think that it was a priest - but I'm not sure) was that when you were flooded with emotion, if you just went to one word, then you weren't thinking.  So, his suggestion was to vary what you say to express emotion.  So, for example, he suggested saying something like "George Washington!" instead of "Jesus Christ!".   I thought "Man, people would really look at you funny if you started doing that."  Obviously, I made it my mission to swear in the most creative ways possible.  (What can I say?  I'm the youngest of three - I thrive on attention.  Plus, I'm naturally a ham anyways...)

If you ever talk to some of my high school or college buddies, then they'll tell you that my random swearing really comes to a head when I'm playing video games.  Sadly, I still kept things salty during these times, but I will say that there have been some very creative uses of preexisting swear words.  However, since then, I have grown up a bit, and I have tried to clean up my cusses.  So, the following is a list of funny words that I like to use as opposed to real hardcore cusses:
  • Lollygagger
  • Lookie-Loo (Maybe "Lookie Lou"?)
  • Silly Sod (Thank you very much, Monty Python)
  • Falafel
  • Nerf-Herder (yeah, I'm a Star Wars geek - does this really surprise you?)
  • Dummkopf 
  • Cheeky Monkey
  • Wanka (a lot of British-isms...)
  • Dude (but not dude, dude, or dude! - context is everything.)
You can use any of these.  Feel free to leave your best swears that I might be able to add them into my line up.

2 comments:

  1. This must come in handy when you're trying not to use real swear words around Sammy. Chris has some gems he uses around Zach. Of course, now Zach says "Barnacles!" when he's frustrated....

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  2. F me in the A with a piece of S is still one of the classics.
    But you forgot "Semprini"
    Semprini?

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