Author Topic: Favorite alternative swear phrase or word? (Read 1882 times)

Questor · « **on:** July 29, 2009, 01:08:30 PM »

What is heck? Heck is where people who say "shoot" instead of, uh, the other word go when they die.

Dad Gummit is good too.

I've never liked Gosh Dangit, though.

"Oh, crumbs" is a fine expression of disappointment.

45-70.gov · « **Reply #1 on:** July 29, 2009, 01:15:39 PM »

http://www.gboreloaded.com/forums/index.php/topic,179069.0/topicseen.html

how about this one

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #2 on:** July 29, 2009, 01:50:23 PM »

I kind of like the George Patton way of thinking.
If its worth a curse word make it a good one and LOUD.
But since those words are not allowed in polite society or here on GBO I think
the ones from Sarge in Beatle Bailey were good too.
you know &#@%! or %#@*^!
Leaves it up to your imagination as to what word he used.
I'm even sure you can change the font to something like "wingdings" and type the real words you want.

Heather · « **Reply #3 on:** July 29, 2009, 02:38:45 PM »

My children love the Hannah Montana coined phrase...sweet niblets. I'm an aww shucks kind a gal myself.

Heather

JustaShooter · « **Reply #4 on:** July 29, 2009, 03:43:10 PM »

I've always taken my cue from Pooh - "Oh, bother!"

Just a Shooter

Cheesehead · « **Reply #5 on:** July 29, 2009, 03:47:54 PM »

"WHAT THE!"

Cheese

Tommyt · « **Reply #6 on:** July 29, 2009, 04:52:29 PM »

Holy Cheese on Pizza !

Oldshooter · « **Reply #7 on:** July 29, 2009, 05:35:18 PM »

Well I'll be hornswaggled, a thread close to my own heart! Where in haites did this come from?

How about Dang it!

or dad gum!

dont get me started!

Dand · « **Reply #8 on:** July 29, 2009, 07:39:47 PM »

I had an 8th gr substitute English teach for a while who would say " shaving cream". She admitted that she'd had to learn to control a bad mouth and this worked for her.

Oh Beans worked for a long time for me.

Rats

Blast

hang it all

Hodr · « **Reply #9 on:** July 29, 2009, 07:44:01 PM »

I learned from Yosemite Sam "Rackinfrakenjabben Rabbit"

blindhari

Questor · « **Reply #10 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:02:08 AM »

Dash it all!

Curses!

Oh foo!

gypsyman · « **Reply #11 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:09:37 AM »

ah-crap,if an incident or accident. call another person ''buckwheat'', if their doing something stupid gypsyman

Oldtimer · « **Reply #12 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:39:58 AM »

My wife's grandfather used to use "bless-ed" in a way that meant anything but. In southside Virginia, we say "have a blessed day," but in northern Virginia, they say "have a bless-ed day." It always makes me pause, and I think of my wife's grandfather. He could pull more tobacco at 80 than most young people, including me.

williamlayton · « **Reply #13 on:** July 30, 2009, 02:21:49 AM »

I was raised in a enviroment of genuine cusser's. I tend to cuss and am not convicted of being a heathen for doing so.
Now you can cuss and it be funny or poking fun or you can do so to get to the point about a subject---you can also do it too belittle a person.
I have no problem with foul language.
Blessings

magooch · « **Reply #14 on:** July 30, 2009, 03:58:42 AM »

If cursing is any gauge of whether a person is mad, or shocked, or not happy, then the yutes of today must be in a pretty bad state.

Questor · « **Reply #15 on:** July 30, 2009, 05:11:05 AM »

Well spoil my britches! Swearing by yesterday's hop-headed youth was pretty intense too.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #16 on:** July 30, 2009, 05:20:49 AM »

yep i can vouch for that, I grew up on the River with river rats and I can tell you first hand that there is a whole new vocabulary in cursing. Had a guy come up to the pilot house one day(he was new) and said "I cant work around people cursing all the time". I put him off with the grocery boat when it left, its the boat he came aboard on. it was for his own good!

I've come to substitute "friendly" for the "F" bomb in polite company! Gall Darn!

Questor · « **Reply #17 on:** July 30, 2009, 05:57:54 AM »

Shucks! And all this time I thought it was spelled "Gawl darn"

Oldshooter · « **Reply #18 on:** July 30, 2009, 10:35:55 AM »

UHHHH.... I THINK THATS THE NORTERN DIALECT SOUTHERN IS GALL?

mcwoodduck · « **Reply #19 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:12:15 AM »

I always thought is was Gaul. Like what the Romans called the French.

Oldshooter · « **Reply #20 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:13:37 AM »

oH THATS THE EASTERN DIALECT!

m-g Willy · « **Reply #21 on:** July 30, 2009, 11:35:48 AM »

I heard that cursing was a sign of a small vocabulary.
I'd tell you all more about it , but I ani't got the words to explain it!

Mohawk · « **Reply #22 on:** July 30, 2009, 12:07:21 PM »

Shut the front door!!!

Foggy · « **Reply #23 on:** July 30, 2009, 12:34:44 PM »

slim rem 7 · « **Reply #24 on:** July 30, 2009, 01:57:12 PM »

no wait a min...i use heck outa respect for greybeards rules...
i too can sling out a respectable cussing but im working hard
to curtail it as my grand younguns come around more...
what i say depends on why i sayum...
if i somehow was to get the author of this computer junk that keeps popping up....
it might be,,,,here s something your daddy shoulda done a long time ago,,,you
--- --- sorry S. O. BEESWAX..
now if i hit my finger a couple times trying to put up little pic hanging nails for the wife...
all bets are off you just plug you ears.. she does. :)slim
ps what the blankety blank did i do to mess up my smiles

Elijah Gunn · « **Reply #25 on:** July 30, 2009, 06:12:40 PM »

Coo-coo birds!! or, Ding dang it!
I don't cuss in conversation with people, but I will when I'm talking to myself. The person I cuss out most is me.

gstewart44 · « **Reply #26 on:** July 31, 2009, 04:32:01 AM »

I have always been partial to "Dagnabbit!" with a Grampa McCoy twang to it. I have tried to keep the real cursing out of the home so as not to unduly influence my kids, but my 15 yr old really surprised me a few weeks ago when he hit his finger while hammering a board.....

He yelled out "Shiite!" (Yes that is the correct spelling). I was startled and asked him "What did you say?"

He replied back - "It's a word - it's the Iranian branch of Islam. I couldn't say the other word".

I pondered what I had just heard for a moment then came to the conclusion that the two "words" in question were interchangable.

Questor · « **Reply #27 on:** July 31, 2009, 04:35:24 AM »

How about this one:

Oh Bama!

That should get you kicked out of most places, and shock most bystanders.

Matt · « **Reply #28 on:** July 31, 2009, 07:43:54 AM »

I like --- "She-ite Muslisms if I know"

Brett · « **Reply #29 on:** July 31, 2009, 03:34:46 PM »

Dad was a Navy man... I didn't know there were substitutes for swear words.

Cursing is something I've struggled with for a long time.

Back when I was a painter painting new construction I had a young fellow working with me one day. I was spay painting a primer coat on the ceilings and walls on the 2nd floor of a house we were working on. I had a hundred feet of hose running back to an airless paint pump that was set up out in the attached garage of the house. Well the pump was giving me fits that day and I had to keep stopping and going down stairs and out to the garage to fiddle with it trying to get it to work right. I had reached my boiling point when the pump quit for the umpteenth time and a went barreling down the stairs, passing the boy, cursing a blue streak. Later his father told me I had made quite an impression on the boy. He told his dad I went from the back of the house on the 2nd floor all the way out to the garage spewing a steady stream of curse words and never repeated a single word! His dad had a pretty bad mouth also so we just had a pretty good laugh about it.