@ceejeemcbeegee: OK, "heavens to murgatroid" is one of the all time classic greats in the history of awesome things that have been said, and should be used at all opportunites.
I'm more in favor of a Don't Be a Blowhard Week. I grew up with too many people who used curse words as meaningless filler - as in, "I was, fucking, ya know, about all that shit until I fucking took the fucking shit up. I mean, fuck."
See, this just makes me think of a gal I used to work with who was very anti-swearing, in part because she was mormon. No big, right? But she butted into a conversation of mine once outside of work where cussing was happening, and said something to the effect of "Johns-hopkins has published a study that shows that exposure to obscene language actually diminishes brain activity. I won't stand for your swearing making me stupider".
What followed was probably the most vile stream of profanity that could ever come from my mouth. I mean, really. What nerve!
@goodcheapfun: I'd love to see the study she mentioned. Too bad it cannot conceivably exist. I mean, cussing kills your brain? And there's science to back that up? Not a chance in a hundred hells. I seriously wanted to scar her for life with the filth and blasphemy I puked at her after she butted in like that.
I was all ready to call this kid out for being a smug little jerkoff, and was even going to snark about how his very name sounds like a curse word - "McKay Hatch up your snatch, biyatch!" But then I watched the clip and my grudge evaporated. He has a halfway decent flow!
However, where this subject is concerned I think Marshall Mathers said it best:
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records. Well I do.
I missed out on a lot of really good swearing opportunities trying to be polite, since my mother said only people with a poor vocabulary needed to swear.
Then I got a 780 on my SAT vocab and decided she was full of SHIT. Creative swearing is now one of my favorite hobbies.
@Miss Carrie Nation: My best friend in high school's routine greeting for me was "Hey, you fucking slutty bitch!" But then again, Americans are not regarded as among the most polite and mannered peoples of the world.
I have been swearing pretty liberally my whole life- as my parents didn't censor around me. There is actually a pretty adorable picture of me at about 4 giving the camera the finger.
However, now my mother calls me out for swearing- saying that it isn't ladylike. I just remind her that calling something "ladylike" goes against her feminist beliefs, and tell her that I learned it from her. I think she just came up with the "unladylike" because she was shocked at how well I string together curse words.
@Liz11685: My husband once joked to me that saying "motherfucker" isn't ladylike. So, give me a ladylike term that rolls off the tongue as well as "motherfucker" and I'll use it.
Hortense, I thought you added the "Most cyberbullied kid in the world" to the book with photoshop as a joke. I went to the kid's site and was shocked to find that this is a serious marketing strategy. WTF?
Also, there's a link on his site to a book with cussing "alternatives." From the cover, I can see it suggests "pickles," "barnacles," and "sassafras." Now, this brings up my biggest problem with "no cussing" - words like fuck, shit, ass, etc are only bad because society brands them as inappropriate. If "sassafras" was actually legitimately used in the same situations by society, wouldn't it eventually be deemed as inappropriate? Is it the actual sound of the word that is offensive, or the meaning behind it? Why are we fighting against 4 letters?
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Cheese and Rice! = Jesus Christ!
Shut the front door = STFU
What the Ham Sammich? = What the Hell?
Heavens to Murgatroid = Oh my God!
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What followed was probably the most vile stream of profanity that could ever come from my mouth. I mean, really. What nerve!
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It typically goes:
1)"You're a ___ass."
2)"You're a ___bitch."
3)"You're a ___cunt."
Hilarity ensues.
03/01/09
However, where this subject is concerned I think Marshall Mathers said it best:
Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records. Well I do.
So fuck him and fuck you too.
03/01/09
So FUCK YOU AND YOUR CHURCH, MCKAY, I LOVE GAY PEOPLE, PEPSI AND CUSSING.
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Daddy is full of (shit)!
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Then I got a 780 on my SAT vocab and decided she was full of SHIT. Creative swearing is now one of my favorite hobbies.
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eh, whatever, he's not hurting anyone.
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I can out-cuss any sailor in the Navy.
03/01/09
A place where "Get to the bar, you cunt" is the highest of affectionate outbursts.
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However, now my mother calls me out for swearing- saying that it isn't ladylike. I just remind her that calling something "ladylike" goes against her feminist beliefs, and tell her that I learned it from her. I think she just came up with the "unladylike" because she was shocked at how well I string together curse words.
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03/01/09
Also, there's a link on his site to a book with cussing "alternatives." From the cover, I can see it suggests "pickles," "barnacles," and "sassafras." Now, this brings up my biggest problem with "no cussing" - words like fuck, shit, ass, etc are only bad because society brands them as inappropriate. If "sassafras" was actually legitimately used in the same situations by society, wouldn't it eventually be deemed as inappropriate? Is it the actual sound of the word that is offensive, or the meaning behind it? Why are we fighting against 4 letters?