Liz Lemon on 30 Rock.

Said by the character Roman Moronie in the 1984 movie "Johnny Dangerously".

While I don't curse like a sailor, my language is I'm sure too colorful for the people I know who are hyper-christians; and so I avoid using even mild profanity around them by substituting clean words for even mild 4-letter words.

Even so, the kid in question says "Shhhhh! Don't say that word. It's a euphemism for ( says phontically ) DEE - AY - EMM - ENN"

Exasperated, I didn't know what to say. Internally I'm saying to myself "Shit, what the fuck I'm supposed to say then?" I'll bet "darn" would be just as bad as "dang" in their eyes.

Conversations in their home must be a constant balancing act of walking on eggshells.

I have ZERO respect for fundies.

So it should be perfectly acceptable to the uber believers.

BAM, BETTY, POX, KNICKERS, or WOO-WOO?

(I had to look up "SEMPRINI" and didn't remember that from MP...)

but, as usual, it was great!

Thanks!

but the only "Jeannie" I know only curses in Ancient Persian

I made it up.

Then he asked me what my problem was.
I said "It's my birthday and I'm so fornicating happy I could just defecate"

took him about 10 seconds to figure it out.

Filthy fornicator of livestock -- Firefly

gosa, as in piece of gosa

Or more complex ways of saying things like:

My airborne fornication capacity is completely depleted.
My fecal donation capacity is depleted.

It maketh not a shirt unto me.

Or: Hijo de puta (Spanish)
Or: Figlio da putana (Italian)

or various other foreign words.

There are some nice suggestions and discussion of them in this Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity_in_science_fiction

I see the clips on YouTube and it looks like it held up.

Feddie (could be a faction, could be somebody you hate, and that is from my own)
From Battletech... Blakist (meaning fanatic, careful this could be taken as a honorific)
Clanner (Battletech)
Vat Grown (A few sources)
Corporate (From several cyberpunk novels)
By Odin (same kind of like Blakist, my own feel free)
Blue Blood (I guess pretty self explanatory, and in some places that is not a nice term)
Peasant
Idjit (Idiot)
Dumbshit
Kirani (My own fiction, standing in some ways for idiot, or foreigner)

And if you want to go for foreign language

Cabron (A real insult)
Pelon (ok that is mild)
Pinche (Used to be helper of a cook, these days in Mexico them are fighting words...)
Huevos (it means eggs, but in reality stands for having guts)
A huevo cabron (Lets's just say my mom better not see this)
Pelado (Meaning you have a predilection for things like fuck, frack and a few other fun ones)
Hijo de Puta (son of prostitute, and that can lead to some real fights)

I think I have provided enough.

Damn, my mom really will be reaching for the soap.

if immediately followed by "gringo" (it's heard by the bar-waiter at the end of "Office Space" due to Milton being a dick to him )

Nice list! If you use the Online Etymology Dictionary, you can probably find even more variations and other language versions. I posted a whole compilation of the etymology of the 7-deadlies on one of those big threads from that site. I learned quite a bit about those words as well, such as how the c-word is the oldest of the bunch (at least 900 years old!)

Chilango, (from Mexico City) not a good term. Though some former chilangos are adopting it as a term of endearment.

Gachupín , (Spaniard, could be exchanged with blue blood) and just as dated, criollo.

You want to go ethnic, negro and Indio are similar to negro, not the other n word though, and Indian. They are insults, but in Mexico mild ones.

A friend of mine was called negro all the time, inverted from insult, since he was a very hard worker.

And this is why I take the current ahem controversy as funny. The etymology of the language is fascinating and we truly need to disarm the language.

)Word-Police) if they choose to read it. That's the most difficult task in disarming the emotions surrounding various words. If they can't be bothered to learn a word's history and accept that language is forever evolving, then they'll never get it, seemingly content to always be on edge, ready to pounce at the slightest perceived slight.

I've been out for the evening, so I'm just now getting to see more of the reaction to the mere existence of vulgarity on DU

or BiHnuch

"Ah, well aren't you special" = There's seriously something wrong with you, you are an idiot.......


"Ah, well aren't you special. Bless your little heart dear" = F-off you shit eating moron.


In certain parts of the Old South we have elevated insults to sound elegant and refined.

until more recent years of my life. It's such a wonderful means of character assassination! I think, too, that it's used more often in the Deep South (and maybe East Texas) than the rest of Texas here. Ranchers, shit-kickers, and oilfield workers have never been so apt to parse their words
Your third version is especially fantabulous!

I imagine it's something like when Cal Peggy drops an f bomb...classy and cutting to the bone

It pisses me off to no end because it just sounds so fucking stupid. I'd rather you tell me to go fuck myself than hear you say "Shut the front door" and the fucking worst part is TV talking heads seem to have fallen in love with it.

Fuck your* front door and the gargoyle dong knocker it rode in with.



*(not yours, Kentauro. THe nameless, faceless "your" referring to the people of the world who say that. Unless you say it too! )

I guess it's because I don't listen to either talk radio or news programs that would use it. Jon Stewart certainly doesn't hold himself back with such euphemisms

(And I did understand which "you" 'you' meant )

as in "Felgercarb! Portugal just scored!"

"a common tauro-scatological expletive".

when I was a teenager...

I don't know if it was a real insult with wide usage, or if someone made it up, but back then there was a word for a (presumably male) sniffer of girls' bicycle seats...

"Farblenard"

Shit in Tarahumaran.

Cuacha!

Shit in Nahuatl.