# Inventive cursing-- both clean and dirty.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventive-cursing-both-clean-and-dirty/306545>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 2, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventive-cursing-both-clean-and-dirty/306545 "2005-06-02T13:31:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventive-cursing-both-clean-and-dirty/306545/81 "2005-06-07T17:36:19Z")

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> [@raz](#):
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> Also, my dad’s best friend is notorious for making up random expletives. My favorite is “shit hook”.

Does he just use it as a random expletive? “Ow, shit hook!”

That’s kind of strange. “Shit hook” has been a course synonym for “hand” for most of the twentieth century – eg; “Keep your shit hooks off my tools, ya bastid.”

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventive-cursing-both-clean-and-dirty/306545/82 "2005-06-08T15:23:26Z")

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> [@JKellyMap](#):
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> I agree that it would also make a great band name.

[Actually, it is](http://www.golivewire.com/forums/topic.cgi?topic=55893&start=0). 😃

> [@Dragwyr](#):
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> “That person needs to get his feces congruent.”

I don’t know if it’s necessary to formally announce that I am stealing this, but I formally announce that I am stealing this.

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**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/inventive-cursing-both-clean-and-dirty/306545/83 "2005-06-08T19:29:22Z")

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> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#):
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> **Tenacious D**

In the “inward singing” bit on the album, Jack calls Kyle something like “cockass” or “cockayss”.

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