Leapin' lizards!

[teenybuffalo]

"Son of a bbbbbb--son of a bbbb-bbb-b--son of a GUN! Ha! YOU thought I was going to say 'son of a bitch,' didn't ya?! HA!" --Porky Pig.

I like mealy-mouthed swears. Minced oaths. I've come to like that term recently (I think alien_snipe introduced me to it). I've gone through this thing over the years where I periodically try swearing to see if it makes

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[alien_snipe]

I'm particularly fond of "holy buckets!" for its wholesome, Minnesotan character.

[teenybuffalo]

That one works on so many levels! Holy... hole-y... and "buckets" is so satisfying to shout!

*chinhands* ^_^

I think I am going to start using this one too.

[greenlily]

Well, let's see. I learned to swear in my extreme youth from my father, who is a creatively profane man, within limits: he does not (at least not in the presence of his daughters) use any crude words for female body parts. Pretty much anything else is fair game, though, and my brother and I were each called on the carpet at least once at school for injudicious use of George Carlin's Seven Words. (My sister was smart enough not to get caught. :)) None of us has Dad's accent under normal circumstances, but we all swear with recognizable East Boston vowels and dropped R's. It's kind of hilarious

[teenybuffalo]

That's the thing! It's a little more work, but lots more fun, finding creative rant terms. Brava!

"Wretches" is a great all-round put-down, isn't it? It has even more dismissive force than calling people jackasses. I love it!

"Sons of motherless goats!" would be so much fun to shout. I think I'm adopting that one.

This also reminds me of a friend of a friend who occasionally mutters, "Oh, fuck me with a doughnut," when she gets really frustrated. Which isn't actually a minced oath, it's the real thing, it just sounds almost silly enough to be playful.

[greenlily]

In the movie, it's actually singular--"Sons of a motherless goat!"--which has a much better rhythm to it. Explosive Dactyls For Great Justice is the name of my new rock band.

[sovay]

Explosive Dactyls For Great Justice is the name of my new rock band.

+1.

[teenybuffalo]

I have never ever heard the "by all the gods!" one and I really like the sound of it. All those tons are pretty heavy going.

The Bilbo one is a classic. It reminds me of Merlyn in the T.H. White books using by-our-lady as a casual swear, and shouting, "Castor and Pollux blow me to Bermuda!" when he gets really upset. I have used that one a few times myself.

[stealthmuffin]

I rather like sounding like the Middleman, on occasion: "Sweet Vidalia Onion!" (though I think that's more credited to mabfan) or "My Little Pony!" "Mother of Pearl!" is one I find myself using a lot, and I'm not sure why, other than Aquaman uses it in Batman: The Brave and the Bold. And while I've never had cause to use it, I someday want to call someone a "crumhorn-sucking skunk-humper."

[mabfan]

It was actually gnomi who realized that "Sweet Vidalia Onion!" sounded like a Middleman exclamation.

[teenybuffalo]

"Mother of pearl" is also one of Stan Churning's swears in Diana Wynne Jones's Deep Secret, and that's where I know and love it from.

I knew this one old guy who would scream, "Jesus mother of God!" when he got upset. I have no idea if he ever examined that phrase closely.

"Crumhorn-sucking skunk-humper" sounds absolutely filthy without containing much that's objectionable. That's exactly the sort of thing I value in a PG-rated swear.

[moon_custafer]

I rather like Hermes' odd, rhyming-couplet exclamations on Futurama. The two I can (more or less) recall are "Sweet honey-bee of Infinity!" and "Great three-toed sloth! Of the ice planet Hoth!"

[teenybuffalo]

Apparently I need to watch this Futurama thing, because this is the umpteenth appealing idea I've heard from it lately.

[moon_custafer]

Be forewarned -- many episodes will tug at the heartstrings.