This week I had the BEST discussion on Facebook and Twitter I have ever had. SO FUN!
I decided to continue the fun here, because I KNOW you all will have some funny stuff to add to the conversation!
It all started when I asked this question on my Facebook Page:
“What’s your favorite non-swearing swear? I mean like, “Shut the front door”, or “Frick”, or “Holy Shiz” or something like that…”
My fellow weirdies never fail to entertain me, and I got some awesome responses!
From Facebook:
- bottomly pots. and if its really bad. bottomly pots, covered in spots. its a character in a hairy mclary book. hes a dog. it just comes out good.
- Razzer Frazzer
- What the French toast.
- I like to say “Oreo“, but on the other hand, it’s wrong to take the name of such an awesome cookie in vain…
- dadgummit or mother trucker
- Holy Schneike! Feckin. or Mother grabbin son of a biscuit. (that looks soooo stupid typed out but those words sure come in handy when you’re not in a position to have a blue cloud of profanity hanging over your head.)
- So I love to say “Here we Fricking Go!” or my moms favorite “Son of a thousand fathers” .. lol
- Frickinfrackin works best for me. I won’t lie my favorite word, right wrong or indifferent, is the f bomb… Not one I want my kids using however
- ”Son of a Biscuit!“
- Gosh Darn It!
- for the love of JELLY BEANS!
- I make the word up off the top of my head
- BOB SAGETT!!!!
- Jeepers or What The.
- bugger
- Argus Filch! Blahlalalapooface!
- Your Sofa king stupid! Lol
- fire truck
- Son of a biscuit eater!
- when someone cut me up in Calgary on my way to the show with the boys that night, I shouted “Mother funky!“
- We’ve started actually using text speak…WTF and OMFG said out loud. We also use Frack a lot.
- LOL text speak here and my fav is FFS
my kids think it means free for shipping LOL - My mom used to say, “Son of a biscuit eating biscuit eater.” And my granny would say, “Got dandruff….. some of it itches” or “Sunny beaches” all the time.
- good grief!!
- son of a motherless goat! (I actually stole that from a friend of mine years ago lol)
- Sugar Honey Ice Tea (got that from Madagascar the kids movie… look at the first letters)
- Coodie Queen.
From Twitter:
- I am a big fan of Shut the front door and holy crapballs…although some would not be a fan of the latter
- holy hellholes?!?
- Affabuckacha! I think my mum made it up but it feels good when you say it. Said like af-fuh-buk-at-cha. Stamp your foot and say it really loudly!
- At times my expletives reference books or movies. I am fond of, “Suffering cats!” from Shakespeare in Love. I also put into frequent use, “Fraggidy-wakka-wakka!” from one of the goblins in Labyrinth. I have also been known to mutter, “Your mother is a fragging aardvark!” from the same source.
- “frigg” is the short version of “friggedy“, which is more severe than “murglefraster“
I have to admit, I’ve had “fraggidy-wakka-wakka” in my head for 3 days now, and have found it very effective! I will definitely be adding some of these to my own vocabulary!!
My dad always used to say “Yo mama was a snowblower” (from the movie Short Circuit) and that one seems to come out some more now that we actually live in a place where they USE snowblowers! And he loved Bill Cosby, so he often said, “Filth flarn filth flarn flarn” or some other variation, and I say that quite a bit (usually just “filth flarn filth“).
SO, what’s YOUR favorite non-swearing swear? I can’t wait to hear them!!
Thanks to my It’s OK to be WEIRD! Facebook Page Weirdies and to some special tweeps who joined in the conversation: Amber, Elaine, and Rhiannon (sorry if I missed anybody from the first round of conversation on Twitter).
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bush-bush! That’s how my aunt’s parakeet interpreted bullsh**
LOL! Glad it wasn’t a parrot who could pick up the whole thing!!!
*giggle* I loved this conversation on your wall too!
I also say “For the Love of Peter Paul AND Mary” and “oh for the love of all things” and “MERCY!” which SOUNDS like it might be said nicely… but no… you’d be surprised how angry I can make that word sound!
When my son was little he was so very angry at daddy one day and so he called him the very worst name he could think of … “you you you GARBAGE CAN YOU!!” and recently daddy was called a “bum head” so apparently there are always options in our house
ROFLOL – Peter Paul AND Mary! Awesome! I think you taught me ‘craptacular’ too, didn’t you?
Kiddos are funny when they are trying to find an appropriate interjection. I will sometimes call one of them Buster Brown, and one night got called a roughy Buster head…. whatever that means! lol
So funny…
I’m like to say Jiminy Cricket.
Susan, this one comes up sometimes at our house too. More like, “Aw, Jiminy Crickets” lol
Thank you for the laugh! My favorites at home are *fudge* and *holy shrimp!* =)
Holy Shrimp would definitely get me in trouble. It’s too close to the real thing, but I like it a lot! Especially if you string out the SHHHHHHHHHH part! lol
LOL – great idea!
trying really hard not to say the real word..so I often start out the real word…and then catch myself and add something completely weird to it.
favourites here are “frack” and “holy crap”…..and if I am really getting steamed any phrase can end or start with “you’re even lovin mind”.
kids favourite is definitely from movie ELF, “son of a Nutcracker!”
I’m hearing ‘frack’ more and more. It always makes me laugh for some reason.
I had a friend in university who loved to say, “Are you out of your ever lovin’ mind?” Ah, good memories!
Love this article! Lately, I’ve found myself exclaiming, “Kittens!” when I need an angry word. It’s especially useful when I’ve stubbed my toe or burnt myself in front of my parrot of a toddler!
Crystal
HAHAHA! Those parrots!
“Kittens” is random enough that hopefully the toddler won’t catch on to anything. That’s awesome!
I like to say… Shishkabob
Funny post Raylene. Love Son of a Buscuit. I might have to use it!!
For a while we said “Skiskabobbers”. Kind of a silly sort of swear! haha! Son of a Biscuit is classic in my family, a real keeper for sure! lol
Huge LOLz!
Current faves are “Crab Apples!” and “Sunken Ditch!”
If the “ffff” sound starts to come out despite all efforts, it usually becomes “Fluffy Kittens!” or “FLARG!” (Mark Chang’s Yugopotamian holiday from The Fairly Odd Parents, but it sounds bad if you say it right).
Crab Apples? That’s awesome. Never heard that one before!! Sunken Ditch is excellent!!!! Close enough but still sorta random. PERFECT!
I often say BLARGH, but Flarg could be substituted just as easily. That’s a good one!!
This might sound tame, but I keep going back to it: Ah, Fudgicles! Sometimes it’s substituted with Oh, flip-flop! I know, I know…harsh, eh?
Fudgecicles is hugely popular with moms apparently. I hear it quite a bit. “Oh flip-flop” is fantastic! I like that one.
I have been known to tell people to “Back the TRUCK up!” and I also use frig, friggin or for frigs sake!
Great post, Raylene! I might have to use some of those!
ahhhhhh, I remember my uncle saying, “Back the TRUCK up!” lol That’s funny! Frig lends itself nicely to friggin and I’ve used that one myself, but not ‘for frigs sake’. that’s just funny to me! I love it!!
Let’s see…
Fudge Cake! though that’s not nice to fudge cake is it?
God Bless it!
Smurfity Smurf Smurf Smurf! (um yeah)
and those are just off the top of my head. Pretty sure I use more than those.
aw, poor fudge cake! lol
Smurifty Smurf Smurf!!!!! awesome. I haven’t heard that in a while, but it’s an excellent choice!
I have a bad habit of cussing in French. “Va te foutre” slips out quite often. Since I put my girl in French Immersion, I’m really trying to quell this one.
Oh, I totally use that quote from Labyrinth. My sister and I used to often yell at each other, “Your mother is a fraggedy aardvark.”
I also use:
Pucker Nuts. (From the Elfquest comic book series)
A made up word that comes from one of our roleplaying sessions and was orkish for something like there’s that damn dwarf. Phonetically it comes out sort of like Vak-neesh. Which is just satisfying to yell when you’re in a tizz.
Why yes, I am a geek, thanks for asking.
Thanks for the hilarious read.
OH, Deanna!!! You don’t want that French expletive to get picked up. It’s bad enough when they learn their animal names and come home saying how much they love SEALS, en francais!
LOVE the orkish! Vak-neesh could totally work in many many ways! haha!
(Yes, I am a geek, too! *smile*)
Somehow I ended up with “Fruit, Nuts, and Cake” a couple decades back, and decided it made me smile enough to keep it.
Do you run it all together, like “fruitnutsncake”? That is funny! How did you end up with it? Obviously not a common choice, but whatever works, right!?
Some of those responses you received are hilarious! I think my favorite is: “son of a motherless goat!”