# Cursing without cussing?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [May 13, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853 "2002-05-13T17:50:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2002, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/21 "2002-05-14T19:52:44Z")
My favorites:
Cheese and Rice!
or, the slightly more advanced:
Jumpin’ Cheese and Rice on a Pogo Stick!
or, I do my yosimite sam impression, which always is the same:
bough bough bricka frou brough brick
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2002, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/22 "2002-05-14T20:42:37Z")
[More in MPSIMS](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=107545).
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/23 "2002-05-14T21:47:33Z")
I use utterly, stupid and my favorite, you bucket. For some reason, they work well.
I love Cheese and Rice. A euphamistic Jesus Christ. I always add on “Superstar,” and wonder what composer Tim \*\* RICE \*\* thinks of it.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/24 "2002-05-14T22:34:26Z")
I like made-up curse words from comic books and cartoons.
“Aw, shock it!”
“Get fragged!”
“That’s some cold hard slag.”
“Zark you!”
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### Author:  [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/25 "2002-05-15T01:24:43Z")
Try learning to swear in another language.
I have a book called “Dermo! The Russian Tolstoy Never Used”
😉
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### Author:  [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/26 "2002-05-15T02:14:09Z")
I certainly can’t quote it, I don’t think anyone can, but listen to the father from a A Christmas Story when he’s “fixing” the furnace. Excellent! Excellent! Excellnet! And very similar to Yosemite Sam. I’m attempting to model my own swearing after this dialogue. Especially with a very perceptive two-year-old around the house. It hasn’t worked yet, “motherfucker” still explains how I fell too appropriately most of the time. 🙂
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### Author:  [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/27 "2002-05-15T07:51:20Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Miller \*
> \*\*Allow me to direct you to [David’s Favorite Captain Haddock Curses](http://www.interlog.com/~tbaikie/homepage/haddock.htm)
>
> Nothing relieves that frustration like an ear-piercing “Blistering barnacles!” \*\*
I wonder if Anthracite will be pleased to discover she is one of Capt. Haddock’s favorite curses.
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### Author:  [@Burnt\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burnt_Sugar)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2002, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/28 "2002-05-15T11:27:33Z")
Cow Poo!
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### Author:  [@Spritle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spritle)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/29 "2002-05-15T13:24:07Z")
> [@](#):
>
> by **DaddyX2**
> but listen to the father from a A Christmas Story when he’s “fixing” the furnace
So true. I love the the Narrator’s response…
“In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obsenity that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.”
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### Author:  [@Buck\_The\_Diver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_The_Diver)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2002, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/30 "2002-05-16T03:48:57Z")
You can’t go wrong with a few **Spongebob Squarepants** curses. Ultraclean, they roll well off the tongue and hip, to boot!
Barnacles!
Tartar sauce!
Fish paste!
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### Author:  [@Billy\_Baroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Baroo)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/31 "2002-05-16T04:09:01Z")
Motherfreshener!
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### Author:  [@Neptune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptune)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2002, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/32 "2002-05-16T04:09:11Z")
Dagat Frack!
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### Author:  [@AveDementia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AveDementia)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/33 "2002-05-16T14:45:43Z")
I like the really long ones that sort of roll off the tongue. My current favorite is:
Hermaphroditic spawn of an inbred leperous weasel!
Also:
You festering pustule of a maggot-infested crustacean! You heinous abomination a of slack-jawed spineless brain-rotten troglodyte! You disease-ridden dung-swilling toad-loving cancerous bottom-feeding bowel-purging excuse for an unfinished gargoyle!!!
:::happy sigh::::
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### Author:  [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/34 "2002-05-17T03:39:35Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by sturmhauke \*
> \*\*
> I wonder if Anthracite will be pleased to discover she is one of Capt. Haddock’s favorite curses. \*\*
From the page:
> [@](#):
>
> Addle-pated lumps of anthracite!
:eek: 😉
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### Author:  [@lunamation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lunamation)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/35 "2012-01-02T00:08:42Z")
My own inventions: Dog-banged boss-rotten socktucker.
W.C. Fields used to say “Godfrey Daniel”
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### Author:  [@FuriousGeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FuriousGeorge)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/36 "2012-01-02T00:17:16Z")
Knowing a few choice words in other languages seems to work well for me… full satisfaction of a regular curse with half the comprehension from co-workers.
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/37 "2012-01-02T00:26:00Z")
So, have things gotten any better or more creative after ten years? And do zombies cuss?
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### Author:  [@UFC\_Is\_Sux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UFC_Is_Sux)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/38 "2012-01-02T00:28:10Z")
Corksocker! (or Corksacker!)
Bun of a sitch!
Dastard!
Futhermucker!
Piece of twit!
“Sic sookim seem!” (bastardized Russian phrase describing questionable parentage)
“Baka Gaijin!” (Japanese phrase describing a stupid foreigner)
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/39 "2012-01-02T00:39:52Z")
“Blast!”
“Blasted!”
Are two I use on my job as replacement words.
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### Author:  [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/40 "2012-01-02T00:59:08Z")
Sonoma Beach
It’s a state park in California, Google it!
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