And remember - Dick Dastardly could also let go too.
Old British ladies going: “Intercourse the penguin!” and “BURMA!”
Velma Dinkley (here refashioned as “Tabitha”) and her Jinkies!
Cartman vs Sadaam Hussien in killer cuss-off. Possibly NSFW
Oh yes. . . yes yes.
Last year, I actually worked myself into such a stupefying rage that I could not articulate words, and somehow ended up doing a reasonable impersonation of his rants. At the end, I even threw in a, “Nottafinga!” (which is how I always heard it as well). I was furious, but apparently not above making a gratuitous movie reference.
I know that he is actually supposed to be swearing, and that Ralphie is getting a earful of genuine, colorful curses, but I like to imagine that he actually swore like that, in the throes of a truly incoherent rage that no real words could adequately express.
In Bil the Galactic Hero, *Harry Harrison *coins the term Bowb. It’s an all purpose curse word that can be used in any occasion.
The book is hilarious and I highly recommend it.
Like a lot of y’all, I’m a big fan of the slang from Firefly, especially “gorram” and “shiny”, both of which I use in real life.
I’m fond of “tanj” but don’t use it myself.
If I have to express my anger in a public place, I try to stick to Muttley-style incoherence or, in case of real rage, Old Man Parker-style cursing, although I admit I have never managed to end a rant with “nottafinga” yet.
Conan the Barbarian would ejaculate a hearty ‘Crom!’ when things went pear-shaped.
Crom was the name of a Cimmerian deity, so perhaps no worse than Gorblimey or bloody. We may never know.
Then you’ll enjoy this as much as I did. My facebook friends didn’t get it at all. Someday I’ll outfit my whole kitchen with it.
I use his “Jumpin’ je-HOOS-ephat” now and then.
That’s where we all come from, honey.
To take it a step further; ‘Grud on a Greenie!’
How about ‘Great Krypton!’ and ‘By Toutatis!’
Interestingly, it predates Yosemite Sam.
Even though I can’t hear any of it, this is my favourite fictional swearing:
Buster blows off some steam.
^ For a moment, I thought you meant Buster on Mythbusters; THERE’S someone who needs to swear!
Oh, one I completely forgot in my last post…
Scrap, from various Transformers media. I actually use that one a lot, so I’m not sure how I forgot it. (Slag has also been used…and was used as the name of one of the characters, which…well, it fit him, actually. Both uses have been phased out (the character is now named Slug), due to real world obscene use, in the UK.)
The greatest all-time use of the “s” word.
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Yes, I use that myself.
It fit him because his fire breath could turn foes to melted metal aka slag.
How could I have forgotten this one for three pages?
Silflay hraka, u embleer rah.
Billy Connolly - no stranger to a damn good swear - used to talk about having invented “getifu” and “basa” for yelling at his kids. When shouted with sufficient ire, they sound like you’re swearing, but you’re not, so you can keep a clear conscience.
My wife and I use “Jeff” as our safe-swear. Ikea used to make a chair called Jeff; we decided to buy some and said “Let’s get Jeffed up”…but they’d been discontinued, so we declared ourselves to have been “Jeffed off”. Not comedy gold, exactly, but it tickled us at the time, and so it stuck: Jeff is now a synonym for any profanity you care to name.
To return to the OP’s point though…“smeg” appeared to become pretty mainstream in the kayaking world before I heard anyone other than Red Dwarf fans using it. I always liked “goit” from Red Dwarf too; I could never quite tell if it was a futuristic version of “git” or a bowdlerised one (or a bit of both). But, while I’ve said “smeg” numerous times, I can’t see “goit” ever really taking off. Not when we’ve got Jeff…