W. C. Fields was a fountain of faux swearing. One of his most used was “Godfrey Daniels!” Say it like “God-DAMN-it!” and you’ll see why.
BTW, Muttley’s under-his-breath curse was (to the best of my knowledge):
Harry Harrison uses “bowb” throughout the “Bill, the Galactic Hero” series.
And now I remember “jhup” and “bleb” in Samuel Delany’s Empire Star … which are not only swearwords, but kind of a plot point, too.
How could we forget Yosemete Sam?
Rassin’ frassin’ varmint.
“Nadafinga!” from A Christmas Story
“Great Googily-moogily!” from Snickers commercial
Give the man a cigar, or rather an Alsakanite cigarette.
By Klono’s gadolinium guts!
I give up - what is ‘Mrifk’? If it is a E.E. Smith reference, it must be from the Family D’Alembert series, which I have not read all of. Every other work from the master I have read and own.
Regards,
Shodan
Some of the cuss words in A Clockwork Orange were pretty cool. Yarbles and all that cal. Wish I had the book handy so I could pick out some of the more interesting comments made by Alex and his droogs.
Sufferin’ Succotash!
Holy Guacamole!
Let’s not blame Smith, or even Stephen Goldin, for “Mrifk”. It’s the favourite oath of Grignr the Ecordian, in “The Eye of Argon”. It’s the sort of thing you would say if you were suddenly surprised by a giant, many-fauceted scarlet emerald.
Nobody’s mentioned “Zark off!” and “Holy Zarquon!” from the HHGTTG books yet?
Thanks, DarkJudicator. That site’s a polezny mesto, indeedy-deed. Real horrorshow.
“Suck an elf!” is my favorite, from The 10th Kingdom. I choked on whatever I was drinking because I misheard it the first time…
“-ing” from Terry Pratchett’s The Truth
Thundering typhoons! Blistering barnacles!
It’s an expression, like “Great God Almighty.”
It’s “Grab Billy Nuggets!”
Craptacular by Bart Simpson. Cracks me right up.
And I just remembered. Possibly the most potent swear word I’ve ever come across. Hard to spell though. Nyee!!! As in the knights who say nyee.
“Abro hakmo astab!”
Now let’s see someone place that one.
A lot of my favorites have already been mentioned. I’ll throw in the creative use of ‘Finagle’ from some of Larry Niven’s books, especially ringworld. " (Finagle’s heavy hand!!!)
Also, in ‘Firefly’ didn’t the characters often just slip into chinese to swear a blue streak? (Without the fox censors being able to do much about it LOL.)