Saturday, March 18, 2017

Creative Swearing

I read a post on The Simple Dollar - http://www.thesimpledollar.com/ - about a book with a guy who was very creative in his swearing. He was one of the first straight make-over volunteers on the US 'Queer Eye for the Straight Guy', and he got around socially-inappropriate swearing in his book by such phrases as 'What the Fred Savage were you thinking?' I'm sure you can think of other examples.

My creative cursing is somehow never so innocent. My OH does love the one that sprang to my lips when he was having parking troubles at his father's house last Christmas though - 'Fuckinabucket!'

What does it mean? Nothing! Why does it have to mean anything?

I remember the girl at a bank where I temped, whose response to any customer query I relayed to her was invariably 'Tell them they can just SHIT OFF!'

Trouble is, I don't think she was joking...

And there's my current favourite, 'Shite Almighty!', another that keeps OH innocently sniggering for hours...

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