# 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:** 3
### Author:  [@Bloodless\_Turnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bloodless_Turnip)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/41 "2012-01-02T01:08:55Z")
Son of a Bean.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/42 "2012-01-02T01:43:10Z")
So Yosemite Sam, not Popeye?
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/43 "2012-01-02T01:45:55Z")
> [@Ich\_Bin\_s](#):
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> My favorites:
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> Cheese and Rice!
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> or, the slightly more advanced:
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> Jumpin’ Cheese and Rice on a Pogo Stick!
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> or, I do my yosimite sam impression, which always is the same:
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> bough bough bricka frou brough brick
[Obligatory link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnDxPG3KrtA).
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### Author:  [@SeaCanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaCanary)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/44 "2012-01-02T02:08:57Z")
“Tin-plated, stem-winding, plate-spinning, product of a Luzo-Brazilian kazoo and math book marching band.”
Or if you want something a little shorter:
“Foul Fiend of Darkness.”
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/45 "2012-01-02T03:17:45Z")
“Puppies!” “Kittens!” “Baby hippos!” Ducklings!"
[http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-adam-savage-swearing-test.html](http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-adam-savage-swearing-test.html)
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### Author:  [@truthbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/truthbot)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/46 "2012-01-02T03:19:44Z")
I realized I was channeling my dear departed Mother when I caught myself saying “Crap-a-Doodle-Doo!” a few years back. I also picked up “Horse Cruppers!” from my late father, who was a fan of the ponies.
I hope this helps, so help me Son of Smurf Spawn.
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### Author:  [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/47 "2012-01-02T16:07:59Z")
My “at work” cussing for years has been, “aggraVAtion and BOther”!
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/48 "2012-01-02T16:22:41Z")
I sent my formerly-Evangelical husband into fits of laughter the first time he heard me mutter “Jesus wept.” It’s satisfying, withering, and fundies won’t know whether to be offended or not. Try it.
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### Author:  [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/49 "2012-01-02T16:46:03Z")
I’m pretty fond of “bob dangit”, “crap appleton” (thanks Daddy) & [“Fewmets”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewmets)!
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### Author:  [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/50 "2012-01-02T16:56:56Z")
“Shiva H Vishnu”!
Thanks for that one, Apu.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/51 "2012-01-02T17:32:15Z")
Corksoaker.
Duck socker.
Muffin fudger.
Fudgepacker.
Dip stick.
Lug nut.
Son of a bachelor.
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### Author:  [@Shawn\_K\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn_K_1)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/52 "2012-01-02T17:36:20Z")
If you’re going to use “Ods Bodkins” you also need “Gadzooks!”
Judas priest
For Fox’s Creek
Flea bitten varmint
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### Author:  [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/53 "2012-01-02T21:23:38Z")
I’m going to say to not curse in a foreign language.
If you’re not cursing in English out of respect for coworkers, etc, you might not know what languages they speak. Many people that know me have no idea I’m half Mexican. Once I took my mom to a restaurant where we could hear the bus boys cursing up a storm (they were not Mexican from their accents). She was rather offended.
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### Author:  [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/54 "2012-01-02T21:32:25Z")
What you are after are technically known as “minced oaths”.
“By the beard of Zeus”
You could also use the fake profanity from Johnny Dangerously: Fargin’ icehole, corksucker, bastiges, summina batches, etc.
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2012, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/55 "2012-01-02T22:27:27Z")
didly another zombie
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### Author:  [@grayhairedmomma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grayhairedmomma)
#### Post date: [January 4, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/56 "2012-01-04T22:01:22Z")
**S** ugar **H** oney **I** ced **T** ea
Holy Mother of Cow
Good Gravy
Mary and Joseph **or** Jiminy Cricket
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### Author:  [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/57 "2012-01-05T18:58:00Z")
eff-in
diddlesticks
jumpin jehofafats
sheisticuffs
good don it
holy ballz
razzle frazzle…
well, frickasee me
balderdash!
ya fargin piece o garbage, go blast off, why donya?
yippy skippy
well, ain’t that just peachy keen?
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### Author:  [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/58 "2012-01-05T19:11:45Z")
> [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](#):
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> I’m going to say to not curse in a foreign language.
Zut alors!
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2012, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/59 "2012-01-05T20:30:04Z")
Shinola! Usually gets a smile.
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### Author:  [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2012, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/60 "2012-01-05T21:47:39Z")
My friend in junior high and high school always said “zarking” and, when he was really upset, “Zark Fard it!” Why yes, we were Douglas Adams fans…
Also, did **Una Persson** used to be known as **Anthracite**? Post 34 seems to imply that, and it would certainly be appropriate, but I could be misunderstanding.
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