Swear Word Substitutes

[tinytherese]

Let's come up with some!

[r2Dtoo]

Aw, fukushima.

[Nihil Obstat]

Gun3 kai1.

[Anastasia13]

Phuket, Thailand

[Nihil Obstat]

Gun3 kai1.

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[Luigi]

I learned this one from a religious sister: "And if you don't like it, you can kiss my stinkin' FOOT!"

 

In place of OMG, I use Marian titles - another trick I learned from a different sister in the same order:

- Sweet (or Holy) mother of justice!

- Sweet (or Holy) mother of mercy!

- Certain titles like QUEEN. OF. HEAVEN. can be used if you practice the emphasis. 

 

My grandmother used to exclaim, "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, and all the saints in heaven!" She explained that she wasn't taking the Lord's name in vain, she was reciting a small litany. 

[arfink]

Fruitcake.

[AnneLine]

Turducken!

 

 

"Turducken is a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which is in turn stuffed into a de-boned turkey. The word turducken is a portmanteau of turkey, duck, and chicken.^"

 

^{(Wikipedia, "Turkucken")}

 

Edited October 14, 2013 by AnneLine

[Basilisa Marie]

Frack.  From Battlestar Galactica.

 

Gorram.  From Firefly.

 

 

My personal favorite is just "monkeys."  You have that hard consonant in the middle to get your emotions out, and can easily slide into it from the m and n.  It's satisfying and completely irreligious. :) 

[brandelynmarie]

Mother Fudger & Beaver Dam it & Sweet Mother of Pearl :saint: aaaaand

Oh Sweet Betty & Biscuits & Gravy....








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Edited October 14, 2013 by brandelynmarie

[EmilyAnn]

My father always used to say "sugar" a lot. My mother used to say "Nossa Senhora" (Our Lady in Portuguese). 

[ContemporaryCaflicCrusader]

fl.oopy.  duh?  I use it all the time in real life and some here.  Get some odd looks from people but I tell them, hey aren't you still an atheist?  

[Catherine Therese]

Smeghead.

 

(For all lovers of the Brit comical spoof Red Dwarf)

[Luigi]

I use BLAST! a lot when things go suddenly wrong.

 

The Wooster & Jeeves novels are full of dash and dashed, as in "Dash it all anyway" or "Well, that's a dashed fool thing to say." It's taken from the printing custom of inserting a dash instead of the offensive word.

 

And an Irish priest I know uses "feck" or "fecking." Apparently it's used throughout the seminary, and perhaps all of Ireland. Personally, I think it's a little too close to the original. For me, the problem is not in the vowels but in the intention.

[ChristinaTherese]

In no particular order:

blast/blasted

dash it

bloody (Hey, I'm not British so it's fine, right?)

What the billions of noodles?/What the billions of bilious, blue, blazing noodles in a thundering typhoon? (Or some gramatically decent version with only some of the adjectives in the second version.)

bother

bebother and confusticate (From a hobbit in something by Tolkien.)

garn (From the orcs in The Lord of the Rings.)

 

I like the ones with the letter B at the beginning the most. I don't know why exactly, except that it might be due to reading Tintin as a child and being synesthetic. I really liked the way Captain Haddock cursed.... Things like "billions of bilious, blue, blistering barnacles in a thundering typhoon!" and variants with less adjectives but the same form. I don't think I remembered the prepositional phrase on the end as well as the rest of it, because it's a different color. And when I'm happy I tend to use words that begin with B as well: blessed, beautiful, blessed (Yes, I know I listed that twice. Sometimes it comes out a lot.)  But anyway....