# Favourite fictional swearing **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2018, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084 "2018-02-18T21:38:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/41 "2018-02-19T02:13:57Z")
In Terry Pratchett’s _The Truth_, Mr. Tulip managed to convey quite a lot using only part of a swear word with “\_ing.” \*So called because it was an instrument for –ing young ladies! My word, was it? I thought it was just a sort of early piano! \* ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/42 "2018-02-19T02:17:37Z")
I caught myself saying “shrok” the other day after playing Shadows of War for like 10 hours straight. ---
**Author:** ![Capn\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Capn\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capn_Carl)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/43 "2018-02-19T02:20:16Z")
> [@CelticKnot](#): > > The Old Man from “A Christmas Story” > > Nottafinga! The Old Man was trying to think of a witty response, but only had “NottaTHinga! My buddy and I use this one. It’s handy when you’ve completely lost an argument, but you just have to say SOMEthing. I’ve always liked his furnace-fighting curse: “Frattenhousensnicklefeifer!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/44 "2018-02-19T02:20:53Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > 27 posts, and no mention of [Yosemite Sam](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnDxPG3KrtA)? > > Mel Blanc, rather. The story is that he would do his lines for this short soon after arriving in the sound booth building, after having endured LA’s notorious traffic. Funny thing, I posted the same link immediately after reading the OP. Didn’t even see yours. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/45 "2018-02-19T02:32:19Z")
Just thought of another one. In one of Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” stories, one character uses a lot of profanity. However, since they were published by family-friendly companies in the 1940s and 1950s, the publishers had to substitute the word “unprintable”, and let the reader imagine what word was being used. Toward the end of the story, Asimov hints that the character had a broader and more colorful vocabulary than the reader had been imagining. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/46 "2018-02-19T02:38:16Z")
From Pogo: Dog my cats! Rowrrbazzle! [“The very air was blued!” “Good. I blewed as hard as I could,” ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/47 "2018-02-19T02:42:14Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > In Terry Pratchett’s _The Truth_, Mr. Tulip managed to convey quite a lot using only part of a swear word with “\_ing.” > > \*So called because it was an instrument for –ing young ladies! > My word, was it? I thought it was just a sort of early piano! \* I was about to mention that given–coincidentally–that that is the book that I’m actually rereading right now. You left out the relevant part, where a few people reacted in confusion to his pausing in the middle of talking and saying “ing” all the time. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/48 "2018-02-19T02:55:58Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > “Melon Farmer” from the censored version of “Repo Man”. A friend of mine and I started using it at work and no one knew what we were talking about. That is good, but the classic bowdlerization is from _Big Lebowski_, where the nice version has Walter Sobchak yelling “_This is what happens when you find a stranger in the alps!_” ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/49 "2018-02-19T02:57:18Z")
Dr. Smith always had a good one for the Robot. Jonathan Harris, literally, had a paper and pencil on his nightstand in case one came to him in his sleep. ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/50 "2018-02-19T03:17:56Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “Drokk” from _Judge Dredd_. Grud! ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/51 "2018-02-19T03:18:45Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > “son of a biscuit eating bulldog!” “what the french, toast!?” “you lint licker!” shut the front door! wait what? no all caps? how the seven seven three four am I supposed to shout without all caps? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/52 "2018-02-19T04:23:09Z")
The D&D comic strip _Nodwick_ once had an arc with the all-purpose cuss “Krutz!”. Say it whenever you’re angry, and somehow it always makes you feel a little better about whatever you’re angry about. Except that, unbeknownst to everyone, it was actually an incantation of sorts created by the Big Bad, and whenever anyone said it, it incrementally increased his power. Another one that doesn’t really count: There’s a game I used to play where my first character was a fire sorceress. Now, fire sorceresses did the most damage, but the catch is that there are some monsters in the game that are just plain immune to fire, no matter how much damage you do. When playing, I referred to those as “asbestos” or “halon”, and used both terms as profanities. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/53 "2018-02-19T04:42:34Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > shut the front door! > > wait what? no all caps? how the seven seven three four am I supposed to shout without all caps? [noparse]SHUT THE FRONT DOOR! x[/noparse] The software won’t turn all caps into lower case if you also include a lower case letter. Put “white” color tags around the smaller case letter to make it blend into the background. I used [noparse] tags to make my coding visible. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/54 "2018-02-19T05:09:40Z")
SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!x aaaahhhhh, that’s better:D Thanks **cochrane** ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/55 "2018-02-19T08:21:02Z")
Noy Jitat! Chongo-longo! Nat-chut! Noy Borga! \*Pirates of Darkwater \*had the best swears. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/56 "2018-02-19T13:06:19Z")
Muttley, from the Wacky Races was always effing and blinding [as we say in real swearing] under his breath. Scholars differ on the exact wording of what he was saying: [One version](http://www.kgbanswers.co.uk/what-does-muttley-say-when-hes-muttering-angrily-at-dasterdly-in-wacky-races/16676341) [You decide for yourself](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj3DBcpfMNQ) ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/57 "2018-02-19T13:35:37Z")
“God rotten” from _Tai Pan_, as in “you god rotten sweaty lump of dog meat!” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/58 "2018-02-19T13:42:22Z")
There’s a _Richie Rich_ story that for some reason has stuck with me. Richie’s mom decides to impose a no-swearing policy on the household, with cash penalties for certain phrases. “Phooey!” costs the speaker a quarter. Richie’s father suffers a foot injury (I believe someone drops a bag of cash on him, such being a common hazard in the Rich residence) and he suppresses his response until he gets outside, cradling his foot aNd shouting “DAG NAB THE DING-DONG! KNOCKLE-DE-WOCK!” The table supporting the “curse jar” and all the accumulated fines eventually collapses, which for some reason infuriates Richie’s mom, who expresses her outrage as “ROWR! FAZZBAZZLE!”, which is apparently so severe she has to give up a $10,000 necklace to cover her fine. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/59 "2018-02-19T15:29:02Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Are you of the opinion that _Airplane_ was a documentary? Are you of the opinion that Airplane invented the word golly? ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2018, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/60 "2018-02-19T16:44:10Z")
Not fiction, but music: “plook” from Frank Zappa on the album “Joe’s Garage”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084.md?page=4)