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Things you'd say instead of cussing...

#21
My fiancee's aunt is uber religious and won't ever cuss. She uses placeholder words instead. For example, she uses peanut butter to replace s:spit::spit:t. Really fun to cuss my fiancee out in front of the aunt by saying she was full of peanut butter :D
 
#25
Son of A Bezoar!
My wife is a Pathology PA and we both like Harry Potter, so it's a favorite of ours.

Thanks for this thread, we're cutting cussing out of our vocabulary now that we've got kids and there's some great ones in here.
 
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Eilif said:
Son of A Bezoar!
My wife is a Pathology PA and we both like Harry Potter, so it's a favorite of ours.

Thanks for this thread, we're cutting cussing out of our vocabulary now that we've got kids and there's some great ones in here.
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I'll be pulling for you. I unexpectedly got two teens in the house and in the interest of doing the right thing, put an end to cussing. Couldn't hardly talk for two weeks.
 
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Killed_by_Death said:
Doctor Spock (a part of the body that sounds like a rooster)

What the Frack?
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Love the BSG reference!

Let's see...

In my mom's family, "Judas Priest" was pretty common.

I had a college roommate who used to exclaim "Hell's Bells and Buckets of Blood!" Whole phrase.

When we were newlyweds, my wife and I both read CS Lewis' Till We Have Faces. Great book. "Name of Ungit!" was our preferred expletive for years after that.

I seem to recall using "Foosbodgit" or something like that for a while, in high school or college.

My mother-in-law was Filipina. When my wife was growing up in New Jersey, they spoke English but used Tagalog words for bathroom-related matters.
 
#34
My kids were too young to swear and caught heat, big heat, when they did. I figured they needed a work around so we came up with omelet du fromage. Say it with gusto, like an order or frustrated and it it sounds like .....me or ,,,,,,er !!!!ker. I also swear in Swedish.
 
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hrodbert696 said:
My mother-in-law was Filipina. When my wife was growing up in New Jersey, they spoke English but used Tagalog words for bathroom-related matters.
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There is also the problem of English words meaning something else in another language.
If you say anything to a Thai with "yet he" in it, they'll probably fall over laughing or get embarrassed & leave the room.

We had a Dutch boss at one job in Thailand & he told the admin receptionist that she was Moy mahk. Mahk = much, but Moy is the Dutch word for beautiful. Unfortunately it means pubic hair in Thailand, so she just about layed down on the floor laughing & asking how he knows about her "region".
 
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#38
Friggin', Effing, Effer (as in Mother Effer), and Crap have been staples of mine for years.

I've never liked putting wholesome words into the equation (like Holy Fudge), it just sounds a little too ridiculous to me... I remember watching Speed on TV once and when Keanu Reeves catches Dennis Hopper heading into the Subway, his normal line got changed to, "Pop quiz Animal Cracker..."

I'd rather a word get bleeped out or muted than replaced with "animal cracker".
 

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