Has nobody mentioned “holy motherforking shirtballs?”
Or “Mother Pus-bucket”?
Ugh…some offenses are just too disgusting to even call out in The Pit.
Post #27 (except I forgot the “mother” part).
W.C. Fields: “Godfrey Daniels!” “Mother-of-Pearl!”
Others have mentioned Yosemite Sam, but not his most famous line: “Great Horny Toads!!”
Perry White (Clark Kent/Superman’s) editor was fond of “Great Caeser’s Ghost” as an epitaph back on the 1960’s TV show.
While others have mentioned “Bastidges”, it’s close relative “Bastich” is the go-to swear word for the comic book character Lobo.
I use “Gorram” all the time.
I hadn’t thought of Mork and Mindy for a while, but the term “bezurb” also means intoxicated. I will try to incorporate this into my lexicon going forward.
Epithet.
I like to use “blerg”, Tina Fey’s version of “d’oh!”, from 30 Rock
“You Teutonic twat!”
Well, since John Hamilton passed away in 1958, it could also serve as his epitaph. ![]()
Updated to “Great Shades of Elvis!” for *The Adventures of Lois and Clark
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The edited-for-TV version renders this as “Teutonic tramp.” Truth be told, that sounds funnier to me.
"Mother puss-bucket! "
-Ghostbusters
Exterminators of the year 3000 - a Spanish Mad Maxesque post-apocalypse movie - the sort that are mainly filmed in a quarry - dubbed into English provided the world with ‘Alright mothergrabbers, c’mon.’
Having never having been exposed to the bowdlerized version I was unaware of this until the album Stranger in the Alps was released by Phoebe Bridgers last year.
I think some of the vulgarity on Top Gear was artful. Those episodes where a car would have a name painted on the door and then when the door was opened, the profane bit of the word became evident.
I love the mindswap episode, it had some of the best uses of Smeg.
I think it was The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress that introduced the similar TANSTAAFL, for “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”
The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress helped popularize TANSTAAFL when it was published in 1966, but use of the acronym dates back to the 30s and 40s.
Also, I thought this thread was about swearing.