Favorite fictional swear words?

[Hometownboy]

For extra credit, remember that Niven’s tanj is an acronym for “there ain’t no justice.”

Our own Podkayne would probably remember her fictional counterpart’s expostulation at the opening of Chapter 2 of Heinlein’s “Podkayne of Mars” – ** Oh, Unspeakables! Dirty ears! Hangnails! Snel-frockey! Spit! WE AREN’T GOING!**

I’ve always had sort of a nostalgic attachment to “snel-frockey.” Too bad it didn’t catch on.

And in Heinlein’s “Door Into Summer,” D.B. Davis discovers that the world of 2000, views “kink” and “host” as off-color.

[Some_Guy]

*Originally posted by Omorka *
**“Hraka,” from Watership Down; also, the rabbit deity-names, Frith and Inle. I took up swearing by them in high school, since my mother didn’t permit me to cuss “for real.” **

To which I must add that Bigwig’s cursing of Woundwort represent the single best line ever uttered by a rabbit.

Not that there’s much else to go with, there.

[5_time_champ]

"You cursed peaching sneakthief" one orc to another in The Lord of the Rings

[jsc1953]

Conan used to invoke the name of his deity…“Crom!”…as an expletive.

Then there’s Ross & Monica’s (Friends) invented obscene gesture–banging your wrists together twice, as an alternative to flipping the bird.

[Eternal]

Late Night with Conan Obrien introduced “krunk” as an all-purpose substitute to swears not allowed on TV.

[Mahaloth]

Frell from Farscape.

As in, “Frell the Sci-Fi channel for cancelling Farscape, the best show on television.”

[Mahaloth]

*Originally posted by Eternal *
**Late Night with Conan Obrien introduced “krunk” as an all-purpose substitute to swears not allowed on TV. **

I remember that! That was early on, like the first year of his show. I thought it was great, then I had a student whose last name was Krunk.

I felt glad for him that it never caught on.

[Protesilaus]

From the Simpsons:
Kang’s “Holy flurking schnit!”

[Koffing]

*Originally posted by Diceman *
**Anybody remember the cartoon series The Pirates of Dark Water? They had a good all-purpose swear word, pronounced “Noy-gee-tut!” It also had an adjective form; you could, for example, call someone a “gee-tutin fool.” I remember it because it was my first encounter with fictional profanity **

Remember it? Hell, I used to use those curses!

Another good one is krunk, made famous by Conan O’Brien. It’s extra-fun because it’s also the name of a Transformer’s Nebulan partner!

[Koffing]

*Originally posted by Diceman *
**Anybody remember the cartoon series The Pirates of Dark Water? They had a good all-purpose swear word, pronounced “Noy-gee-tut!” It also had an adjective form; you could, for example, call someone a “gee-tutin fool.” I remember it because it was my first encounter with fictional profanity **

Remember it? Hell, I used to use those curses!

Another good one is krunk, made famous by Conan O’Brien. It’s extra-fun because it’s also the name of a Transformer’s Nebulan partner!

[markdiscordia]

Star Wars characters like to say “stang,” “blast,” and “Sithspawn.”

[Dragonblink]

Just about any line of Captain Haddock’s dialogue. It’s great for building the vocabulary.

[Duke]

Someone on this board (can’t remember who, too lazy to search) reminded me of this gem from Bloom County:

“Snugglebunnies! Snugglebunnies! Snugglebunnies! Snugg—”

[SnugTheJoiner]

Whenever Boris Badenov swore, he said “Raskolnikov!”

(Sounds like a Slavic curse word, actually the name of the murderer in Dostoyevsky’s CRIME AND PUNISHMENT.)

[Miller]

Psst! Dragonblink! Check it out!

[SolGrundy]

The Honey, I Shrunk The Kids TV series (which was really underrated, IMO) had some great ones from Wayne Szalinski. Usually variations of cheese and rice!

[Larry_Mudd]

PANTS, used by Lord God King Stephen Fry, in his smashing novel Making History.

I’ve adopted it for regular use in this timeline-- it’s extremely satisfying, either as a standard ejaculation, eg, “Pants! There’s a hair on my toast!”, or as an intensifier, as in “There’s a pantsing hair in my toast!”, or even as an abstract verb, such as “It doesn’t matter whether I apply jam, marmalade, or just plain butter to my toast, it’s always contaminated to some degree by the presence of some folic material, usually somebody’s cussed cilium. What a load of pants!”

SolGrundy, my favourite variant of that is “Cheese 'n Rice all Muddy!” I didn’t know it was fictional-- it’s an invocation that I call upon at least once a month.

[CadburyAngel]

Firefly gave us “gorram” and “rutting.” They’re pleasantly close to the words they replace.

[sc913]

Frell for me too. My favourite use was when Aeryn and John were getting hot and heavy (under the influence of some gas in season 3).
Aeryn: “Frell”
John (breathily): “Yeah”
Aeryn (breaking off reluctantly):“No,no,no, bad frell”

I’ll also second Captain Haddock. Billions of blue blistering barnacles! There’s was whole educational string of them when (IIRC) pirates rob them in Red Sea Sharks.

[Edwardina]

I always thought the one from Pirates of Darkwater was “noy-chee-tawt”. But I use that one, too. I’ve used “frell” and “Holy Flurking Schnitt” as well. “Pants” is a good one, but I’ve never used it. I may from now on. Sometimes I like to mix them up. For example: “What a frelling load of pants!”