cyphercat wrote:This is actually a topic that's really dear to my heart...I do a lot of PG cursing because it irritates my husband so much
He says "Jesus Christ" all the time, which I do get a bit sick of hearing, so I like to come out with the most childish substitutes I know, like "Cheese 'n' crackers!" or even "Peas 'n' rice!"
Another good one-- I picked it up from Donald Duck comic books --is, "Gosh all fish hooks!" I use that a lot.
Back in my days as a kid, everyone said "Jesum Crow".
From the movie Short Circuit: "You mother was a snowblower!"
fiddly-sticks
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(also, there's a bunch of stuff
here...)
Oh Sweet Niblets! (Hannah Montana)
lord love a duck!
hockey puck!
Son of a biscuit eater!
I think we should mix PG and X cursewords, just to mess with people.
Aren't we already?
On Battlestar Galactica (yes, I'm a geek), they say Frack instead of, erm, Fudge (or Fudd).
Do you all remember Johnny Dangerously?
Johnny Dangerously - Roman Moronie
My mom used to always say Crimanitny! (cry-muh-nit-knee) and Ishcabible! (ish-ka-bib-le). I catch myself using those once in a while.
JPB wrote:Back in my days as a kid, everyone said "Jesum Crow".
Yes! Thank you! When I posted yesterday I was trying to remember that one. Mr C got so sick of it that I actually had to give it up for a while, and I couldn't remember it anymore. He thinks I sound like a total okie when I say that.
His/Her elevator doesn't reach the top.
My favorite comes from an old "Snickers" commercial. The Chiefs groundskeeper is painting the team's name on the football field. A player comes up and says "Great job, man! But who are the CHEFS?"
Reply: "Great Moogly Oogly!"
A regional variation on the fleas and camels curse,
May your chooks turn into Emus and kick your dunny down.
Translation:
May your chickens turn into emus (pronounced eem/ews) and kick your outside toilet down.
Nuts!
I was born in '41. Just around the year I got a beginning job to start a lab was about a year after Mario Savio time. I was busy working, but our corridors had no screens against words. I had a sardonic boss, around '67.
Makes me grin even now. Sharp researcher, sharp writer.
I'm now not so fond of speaking with blanket expletives, and, sorry, Cypher, am way over cute re nonsuch. That is in part from a colleague who spoke cute all the time. (They anniversaried at Disneyland. Not mocking, just explaining..)
There are ways around colloquial expressions .. but you know that.
If there's anyone I really listen to here, it's cypher.
(uh, oh)
I say "stink!" a lot. Even "Oh Pooh!"
I save the hard stuff for when someone pulls out in front of me...I might let "****" fly then. It was my Grandma's favorite word. Apparently she passed it down to me.
Found a similar phrase
I found this one while using stumbleupon.com:
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch...
Found here
Don't know if you've mentioned these, but we use 'em and variations thereof A LOT
He/she is: ... a few fries short of a Happy Meal!
... dumb as a box of rocks or a bag o' hair.
... sharp as a bowling ball. (a la Foghorn Leghorn of cartoon fame)
... not the brightest bulb in the box.
... not the sharpest saw in the shed.
The lights are on, but nobody's home.
Their elevator doesn't quite make it to the top floor.
