There have been quite a few language type threads lately. Here is another one.
We all know a TON of “swear” words. You know the kind of word intended to infer or incite anger, fear or indignation in others. But how many words/phrases are there to say the same sorts of things, without really saying them?
I heard of someone who got tired of excessive profanity at the office, and started using the names of the guilty coworker’s kids as swearwords to get his point across.
Then from the Kerry presidential campaign, the infamous “Shove it” from Mrs. Kerry after her speech on civility in politics.
I unfortunately come to a point where I say what is one my mind..and if certain words come out…so be it.
My hubby showed me on one of his writer’s websites a place where you can buy a read stamp that says bull sh*t. I am thinking of getting that.
I have seen enough of those memos in my day…too bad I can’t red-stamp the actual people.
Ok…so I have had a bad day today. (Used some of those infamous words too)
living in office cubicle hell…where is my WHISTLE???
That was funny Pat…although I would NEVER put my whistle through the torture of putting that in other’s anatomy…my whistles are tooo precious to be wasted on the ignoramous’s of this world!!
My momma was fond of the “I site ye the fecal matter of an adult male bovine” school of insult and seft swipe… it usually went right over the head of whomever was targeted, but it left a stain, LOL…
I’m all too adept at the down and dirty, single sylable stuff, but prefer to carry on her tradition.
One of my favorites is diagnosing cases of “severe cerebral-anal inversion”
I was working at a group home for disturbed teens and a counselor was sitting at a desk doing paper work. He looked around for a stapler or something and couldn’t find one because another worker had moved it. He issued an utterance with all the intensity and bile I’d ever witnessed: “Frickin frack!” I thought, ‘I’ll have to remember that.’ It was powerful.
My mom (that sweet little woman the Chiff gatherers met) back in the day,when we used to annoy her, would go, “Go to Blazes!” or “Go to Hades” (pronounced hay days). I’ve never heard her actually use an official cuss word in my entire life. My favorite outburst of hers was, “Ill box your ears for you.”
Tony