# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2018, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/81 "2018-02-20T00:38:28Z")
_What a maroon!_ -Bugs Bunny (No, that’s not directed at anyone posting here.) ---
**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 20, 2018, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/82 "2018-02-20T02:04:35Z")
We believe you. Really. We do. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/83 "2018-02-21T00:34:55Z")
“I Have Had It With These Monkey-Fightin’ Snakes On This Monday-To-Friday Plane!” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/84 "2018-02-21T01:17:49Z")
I would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes… like yourselves. > [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > "Mother puss-bucket! " > -Ghostbusters I use it all the time. To myself. ---
**Author:** ![Gray\_Ghost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Gray\_Ghost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gray_Ghost)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/85 "2018-02-21T01:28:17Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > …“Tanj” and “Finagle’s festering testicles” from Larry Niven’s works… I love that in some of the Gil the ARM works and others around then, “Censored,” was itself a swear word. The whole effect reading like the "unprintable’ mentioned below as being used by Asimov. One of the most fluid ways I’ve seen to censor, but get the gist past the radar, was in TV shows to simply remove the sound from a speaking character when they were swearing, but leave everything else alone. No "bleep, or “strangers in the Alps,” just a brief silence and then immediately back to the non-swearing dialogue. I can’t remember the show where I saw that first. I think it was the Jay Mohr vehicle, “[Action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_(TV_series)),” but I want to say that it was newer than that. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/86 "2018-02-22T01:55:01Z")
I still catch myself saying “Meps!” sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/87 "2018-02-22T02:00:44Z")
No love for [felcagarb](https://futurism.media/making-battlestar-galactica)? ---
**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 22, 2018, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/88 "2018-02-22T04:38:09Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > No love for [felcagarb](https://futurism.media/making-battlestar-galactica)? Post #21. And it’s “felgercarb”. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/89 "2018-02-22T04:40:00Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Post #21. And it’s “felgercarb”. That’s what I get for not knowing how to spell it. :smack: (I _did_ do a ‘find’!) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/90 "2018-02-22T15:10:31Z")
Old Tomnoddy and Attercop are my default ones. Pushdug and Bagronk are for when I’m really upset. ---
**Author:** ![Zyanthia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Zyanthia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyanthia)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/91 "2018-02-22T15:18:37Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > Frell, meaning fuck, from Farscape. Wow, I’ll never be able to watch Ella Enchanted the same again. So Ella is literally from Frell. ---
**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 22, 2018, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/92 "2018-02-22T15:28:59Z")
I’m thinking of an SF novel here, maybe someone will remember which it is (paging Andy L.) A long-term space traveler returns to Earth. First thing on his return he is expected to get naked with (and possibly have sex with, though that wasn’t mandatory) his female guide to prove that he was suitable for the highly sexual Earth culture. But despite the casual nudity and casual sex, there was very good birth control and the idea of reproduction itself became a slur–“proc” or “prok”–short for “procreation.” ---
**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 22, 2018, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/93 "2018-02-22T19:32:46Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Old Tomnoddy and Attercop are my default ones. Fun fact: Spiderman in Norway is called [Das Edderkoppen](https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/5/51585/4673892-1979-6.jpg). “Edderkopp” is Norwegian for spider, and cognate with the Old English _attorcoppe_, or spider. ---
**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 22, 2018, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/94 "2018-02-22T19:44:06Z")
Which is also, of course, the root behind “cobweb”. ---
**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 22, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/95 "2018-02-22T19:57:14Z")
Attercop, attercop Friendly neighbourhood attercop ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/96 "2018-02-22T20:14:13Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “Frak” and “felgercarb” from _Battlestar Galactica_. While the BSG reboot used “frak” extensively, “felgercarb” was apparently only used once, as the brand name of the [last surviving tube of Colonial toothpaste](https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3631/3530898678_a07387758d_b.jpg). 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/97 "2018-02-22T22:15:02Z")
Shut your quiznak! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2018, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/98 "2018-02-22T22:23:29Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > ‘Gorram’ from _Firefly_ What I thought off. Really don’t care for “frell” though, someone on another board used it a lot (years before I’d ever seen Farscape) and it got really annoying. Frack is barely a fictional swear, and close to frick anyway. Marvel 2099 had “shock”. It just seemed like they’d fill the script with “shit” and then cut.replace it, rather than give it any thought. Adam Baldwin, he really made “gorram” work though. edt: and how could I forget Mork’s “shazbot”. Nanu nanu. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/99 "2018-02-23T00:17:37Z")
> [@Penfeather](#): > > Fun fact: Spiderman in Norway is called [Das Edderkoppen](https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/5/51585/4673892-1979-6.jpg). “Edderkopp” is Norwegian for spider, and cognate with the Old English _attorcoppe_, or spider. Does attorcoppe literally mean poison-head? ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2018, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084/100 "2018-02-23T00:34:47Z")
I have affectionate memories of “Fossilised fish hooks!” from the _Jennings_ books. Oh, and _ozard_. (“If something’s good, it’s _wizard_, right? So, obviously, the opposite is _ozard_.” It’s all perfectly logical, somehow.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-fictional-swearing/809084.md?page=6)