# Favorite fictional swear words? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126 "2003-03-05T00:47:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/61 "2003-03-05T17:16:02Z")
**Sheeting hole!** from John Brunner’s _Stand On Zanzibar_. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/62 "2003-03-05T17:19:47Z")
Eddie Murphy channeling Bill Cosby from_Eddie Murphy Raw_: Filth flarn flarn filth!! Or how about from _Star Wars_: nerf herder ---
**Author:** ![DaddyTimesTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@DaddyTimesTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaddyTimesTwo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/63 "2003-03-05T17:21:57Z")
My favorite cursing is the dad fixing the furnace scene from _A Christmas Story_. The voice-over tells us his father was a master swearer, he “could weave a tapestry of profanity”, or something close. As a father, I fail regularly at censoring myself ☹ , and my goal is to learn to curse like that! ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/64 "2003-03-05T17:30:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzoron \* > \*\*Wasn’t there another Dark Water curse, something like: Jongolongo! > > But it doesn’t hold a candle to Noi-j’tat! \*\* Yeah, I forgot about “jongolongo.” It wasn’t as common as “Noi-J’tat,” however. In fact, Ioz is the only person I can remember using it. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/65 "2003-03-05T17:36:30Z")
Another Legion of Super-Heroes one: Nass. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/66 "2003-03-05T18:31:03Z")
This one is slightly off the path, but when Grant Morrison was writing _Doom Patrol_, one story arc involved bad guys called the Scissormen who spoke entirely in anagrams. There was a great scene in which one of the heroes dispatched a Scissorman, causing him to exclaim “ **This!** ” ---
**Author:** ![Politzania](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ab097/32.png) [@Politzania](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Politzania)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/67 "2003-03-05T19:23:54Z")
The OP mentioned Klingon … so how about Varool = Romulan for assh\*le (Can anyone help me with a cite for this? ) ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/68 "2003-03-05T19:36:08Z")
Adams uses “Carp!” in _Dilbert_. I like it. I think it was on an episode of _Remington Steele_ that I first heard someone use “Sugar!” as a replacement for another _sh-_ word. It’s most effective if you draw it out a little. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/69 "2003-03-05T19:37:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzoron \* > Wasn’t there another Dark Water curse, something like: Jongolongo! > > But it doesn’t hold a candle to Noi-j’tat! I think **Diceman** ’s right–I only recall Ioz using this one. It always seemed to carry overtones of awe, I think; he only used it for extraordinary events…the nearest equivalent I can think of would be a drawn-out “Holy $#!+”. It sounds too silly for me to use. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/70 "2003-03-05T20:02:36Z")
**Harzass** If anyone recognizes the reference, I will give them a nice shiny quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/71 "2003-03-05T20:22:10Z")
You n’wah! ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/72 "2003-03-05T20:39:03Z")
I’ve always been partial to “shendi-fleckin’” from Jacqueline Lichtenberg’s Sime~Gen series. It’s quite satisfying, and I’ve infected several of my friends with it who’ve never even seen the series. “Get that shendi-fleckin’ thing out of here!” I also like “fraggin’” and “drek” from (among other places) the Shadowrun RPG. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/73 "2003-03-05T20:40:59Z")
Szronified = “descended from countless generations of dwellers in stinking, unflowering mud”. Betcha there’s gonna be a Doper who recognizes the reference in less than four hours. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/74 "2003-03-05T20:45:18Z")
In the movie _Ghostbusters_, they kept a PG rating by having Bill Murray’s character express his reaction to the 200-foot-tall marshmallow man thusly: “Mother Pus-Bucket!”, which caused me to do a spit-take. ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/75 "2003-03-05T22:11:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Askia \* > \*\*What the grok is THIS? \*\* I’m surprised that **Fenris** or **Podkayne** or one of the other Heinlein fans hasn’t commented on this. Unless I’m completely misreading, or “grok” has been used in something other than Stanger in a Strange Land, I don’t think that it comes close to counting for this. First of all, I don’t remember it ever being used as an explitive. It meant… hmm… let me get my copy and I’ll quote from a portion of the discussion about the word. > [@](#): > > ‘Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes part of the observed–to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everthing that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science–and it means as little to us color means to a blind man. The entire discussion is somwhat longer than that. In it’s most literal translation, “grok” means “to drink” and it’s clear that it’s a complex word with many meanings, but it doesn’t appear that any of them were meant to be as a swear word. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/76 "2003-03-05T22:12:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > \*\*Another Legion of Super-Heroes one: Nass. \*\* I slipped that in in my earlier post, but I spelled it wrong. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/77 "2003-03-05T22:12:24Z")
I’ve developed an entirely new vocabulary based on network television showings of movies. When I’m around my daughter, I try to use it. “Forget you, you cork soaking slug in a ditch!” I’m also partial to Mr. Tulip’s use of “ing”. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/78 "2003-03-06T03:40:12Z")
I’m not positive that I’ve got the spelling right, but in Barry Longyear’s _Enemy Mine_ there’s a Drak word _kizmat_ which literally translates as “shithead.” ---
**Author:** ![Shemem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@Shemem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shemem)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/79 "2003-03-06T04:10:47Z")
In _A Wind in the Door_, Madeleine L’Engle tells us that “fewmets” are dragon droppings. Both Meg and Calvin use it as an explicative. I don’t know if L’Engle was making it up or if it’s a real word, but I’ve used it, too. “Die-die, man-thing!!!” isn’t really vulgar, but it _is_ fun to say. (It’s an exclamation used by Skaven in the Warhammer game.) ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126/80 "2003-03-06T05:17:00Z")
Some nice invocations and exclamations from the wonderful Alien Legion comic-book (which isn’t there a Grokkin’ animated series of that?). Ayal! Grokk/ Grokk bokkin. there’s many more, ‘specially from ol’ Jugger Grimrod. Mayhaps Fenris could assist. (if he sees this). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-fictional-swear-words/159126.md?page=5)