Juno's cunt! What slang/swearing has historical/fantasy fiction taught you?

It originally appeared in a live version, intermingled with other material, on Not Insane in 1972. It was later expanded to full album length and released as a studio LP under the title Shakespeare’s Lost Comedie, and finally released in a slightly further expanded form on CD as Anythynge You Want To. I personally like the (somewhat chaotic) live version best.

I’ve been known to let flee with the occasional “God’s Cock!” when appropriate.

Not from a fantasy, but Stephen Fry’s The Hippopotamus

I’ve been known to say ‘Hail Eris’ in public. I also often wish people ‘GodSpeed.’

But never while listening to GodSmack. That could be dangerous. Kills Actors, you know.

Damn, I missed the memo that we can say “cunt” in CS.

SSG Schwartz

Removed the “c-word”

SSG S

Considering that William Moulton Marston, creator of WW, was deeply into S&M/bondage, & lived with 2 bisexual women who were as well, “Suffering Sappho” may be an “in” joke.

I am not a mod, but it was once explained to me that there is no rule prohibiting swearing - only name-calling.

This is not historical, but a line from a recent movie. In The Inside Man after Jodie Foster fingers Christopher Plummer as

a nazi sympathizer

he calls her a “magnificent cunt”. I love that. Magnificent cunt, I wish I were that worthy.

Now, see, one of the reasons I cannot be a magnificent cunt is I have no idea how to do spoilers. I looked but found no button to help me.

Try [ spoiler ] whatever you want to put in the spoiler box [ /spoiler ], removing the spaces between the brackets and the “spoiler” or “/spoiler” word.

Ever since I heard Ajax exclaim “By the Hand of Zeus, what manner of Deviltry is this?” in Duckman, I’ve been searching for an appropriate situation in which to use it real life. :slight_smile:

I did not know that

To Martini Enfield I appreciate your help but I do wish the Dope were more like TwoP in that they can click a link to do spoilers.

Glad to help, and I agree with you that it would be helpful to have a one-click “spoiler” UBB code button the way we do for weblinks, quotes, and smileys. Maybe in the next upgrade? :slight_smile:

I picked up “bollocks” from, I think, Dickens.

I picked up a “Od’s little boddikins” out of the OED, when using the compact edition for Fictionary. Which is also where I got “gadzookers.”

nitpick: It’s “felgercarb.” And it’s one of my favorite swear-word substitutes. I’ve also been fond of “shazbot!”

“Touching Cloth”

Belgium

“Crazy as Frith up a tree (or in a barn)” from Watership Down

“Oh, my duck!” and “They knew not their holes from an ass on the ground,” from Firesign Theater

Does Perry White still say, “Great Caesar’s Ghost”?

“Jumpin’ Jehosaphat!”

“Busy, busy, busy,” Bokonon, in Cat’s Cradle

“Merlin’s beard!” from Harry Potter.

I was surprised to find “By the Great Ceasar’s Ghost, I believe you!” in Mark Twain’s Life on the Mississippi. He puts it in the mouth of pilot Horace Bixby, who was real, and thwe story is autobiograophical, so I assume it probably really was one of Bixby’s expressions.

I first learned of it from Pwerry White, of course, but this seems to be the case of an expression that really was in common use (at least at one time) and not made up by the writers at DC.

“Godsfuck!” - from Thomas Berger’s Arthur Rex

“Oh, bugger!” - Pirates of the Caribbean (but no one can say it just like Capt. Jack Sparrow…)

“Rape it!” - The Mote in God’s Eye

“By Grabthar’s hammer!” - Galaxy Quest

“Mebs!” - “The Coneheads,” SNL

“Judas Priest, Frank!” - Hill Street Blues (best said with an air of disgusted resignation, as Lt. Howard Hunter so often did)