# 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:** 4
### Author:  [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2012, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/61 "2012-01-05T23:59:48Z")
smurf it!
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### Author:  [@Celidin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celidin)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/62 "2012-01-06T01:56:35Z")
My favorite? “Son of a submariner!”
Plus it has the advantage of other IT nerds thinking you’re a psychotic maniac with plans to destroy the surface of the planet.
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### Author:  [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2012, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/63 "2012-01-06T16:10:59Z")
> [@chorpler](#):
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> 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.
Yes, she used to be Anthracite
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### Author:  [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/64 "2012-01-06T18:05:44Z")
From the Fantastic Mr. Fox…
“Cuss”
Also, “Well, this is a Cluster-Cuss.”
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### Author:  [@tavalla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavalla)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/65 "2012-01-08T08:30:59Z")
I’m fond of ‘son of a motherless goat!’
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### Author:  [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/66 "2012-01-08T11:43:26Z")
> [@Scarlett67](#):
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> My mom had a co-worker who used to say “Sugar Jets!” (think cereal) instead of “Shit!”
My brother used (and still uses) that one! He grew up in the late '50s/early '60s, central NJ.
When I had kids, I very consciously changed my vocabulary. Now that the youngest is eighteen, I am slowly modifying it back.
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/67 "2012-01-08T17:55:33Z")
If you want go full-geek, and know any Orcish, it has the same satisfying mouth feel as Anglo-Saxon cusswords: “Ash nazg thrakataluk!”
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### Author:  [@StuffLikeThatThere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StuffLikeThatThere)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/68 "2012-01-08T18:15:47Z")
> [@tavalla](#):
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> I’m fond of ‘son of a motherless goat!’
That’s the one I came in to add. A friend of mine in college used to say this, and it made me laugh. It’s a nice one - long enough to be satisfying.
My brother, whose eight-year old daughter decided that they swear too much and started fining them a quarter every time they dropped one in front of her, now says, “Twenty-five cents.” You can get a surprising amount of mileage out of it, depending on emphasis.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/69 "2012-01-08T19:40:15Z")
I had my entire office using “stupid” (instead of shit) and “utterly” (instead of fuck) as cuss words.
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### Author:  [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/70 "2012-01-08T22:18:44Z")
South Park:
Barbara Streisand!!!
or my favorite from the movie “Hook”
Substitute Chemistry Teacher!
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/71 "2012-01-08T23:25:59Z")
Fun fact:
“Curse” and “cuss” were originally the same word. A few hundred years ago only the word “curse” existed but it was pronounced “cuss.” Eventually the modern pronounciation took hold inthe eastern USA, but the old was still common elsewhere, and people started writing it that way, thus giving us two similar words for essentially the same thing.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/72 "2012-01-09T02:46:22Z")
Oh for the love of Christmas
D’oh!
Zut alors
bafungu
you deceased rhinoceros pizzle
kiss my grits
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### Author:  [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/73 "2012-01-09T03:21:44Z")
Just for the record, if you were my cubicle neighbor and I heard you exclaim “you noxious piece of shit!” to your misbehaving computer, I would consider it quite endearing.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2012, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/74 "2012-01-09T05:08:47Z")
Shut the front door!
That one actually surprised me in this… [- YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nr0PPUruWd8)
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### Author:  [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2012, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/75 "2012-01-10T20:07:36Z")
I’ve been known to borrow from Perry White and exclaim “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” vehemently.
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### Author:  [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/76 "2012-01-30T01:33:29Z")
Hill of Megiddo!
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### Author:  [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2012, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/77 "2012-01-30T01:50:10Z")
Son of a Happy Meal and what the fahoozy have been known to leave my mouth. Credit to the Wayans for ‘fahoozy’.
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2012, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/78 "2012-01-30T05:11:21Z")
Not a minced oath, but from Japanese ‘kuso’ (shit) and ‘baka’ (stupid/fool) both feel good off the tongue. For extra fun you can repeat ‘baka’ a few times. Bakabakabakabakabakabakabaka!!!
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### Author:  [@bmasters1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmasters1)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2012, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/79 "2012-01-30T10:50:04Z")
One I use quite frequently is “Oh, smoke it!”
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### Author:  [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cursing-without-cussing/108853/80 "2012-01-30T13:06:15Z")
Bugger, buggery
Feck, Fecking
Shite
Shitey-buggery-feck
These tend to be lost on nearly all Americans, and are just as satisfying.
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