# My new swear word... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 9, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517 "2006-12-09T23:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![susan\_foster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@susan\_foster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan_foster)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/1 "2006-12-09T23:48:51Z")
I just got a spam with the subject (objectionable words blocked by me, not the spam): am i allowed to say ‘f_cking’ and 'sh_t’ and ‘b\*lls’, or do I have to say ‘EARMUFFS’! (And yes, I do realized the irony of \*ing the words in my post) So now I can say: EARMUFFS! Makes a nice addition to others like: Nut Bunnies! \_\_\_\_\_\_ing! Susan ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/2 "2006-12-10T01:04:45Z")
Hmm. Maybe. “Earmuffs!” sounds like there’s a pause before the _really_ naughty word. I’ve always liked “nut bunnies”, though. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![No\_Power\_In\_The\_Verse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@No\_Power\_In\_The\_Verse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Power_In_The_Verse)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/3 "2006-12-10T02:01:44Z")
When I counseled this summer at a camp I had to get creative. Always wanting damn it to roll off my tongue I eventually turned that into danish. From there it evolved into the most amazing swear word substitute ever; cinnamon danish. I now mutter that under my breath more than any thing else. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/4 "2006-12-10T02:36:23Z")
The comic strip _Out of the Gene Pool_ suggested “garf” as a swear word in today’s installment. My swear word is “panda.” I don’t know why, but I’ve trained myself to say “panda” when I’m angry. Although a couple of days ago I shouted “d’oh!” at the top of my lungs when I messed up at work. The OED defines “d’oh” as expressing realization that the thing you have done is foolish, which explains how Homer Simpson uses it and how I used it. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/5 "2006-12-10T04:19:45Z")
The best thing to come out of Spongebob Squarepants was the swear word Bar\* barnacles!\* Go ahead, try it. ---
**Author:** ![Strinka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strinka/32/512_2.png) [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/6 "2006-12-10T05:04:21Z")
Pancakes! ---
**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:** [December 10, 2006, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/7 "2006-12-10T05:14:07Z")
“Pants!” Thank you, Stephen Fry. ---
**Author:** ![Lobelia\_Overhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@Lobelia\_Overhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobelia_Overhill)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/8 "2006-12-10T12:35:53Z")
A friend coined the word Twannie as she’s not allowed to swear at work and has _the_ most annoying co-workers ever. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/9 "2006-12-10T14:20:25Z")
Or > [@Butters](#): > > Aw, hamburgers! ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/10 "2006-12-10T14:32:13Z")
_Piscatronium!_ First syllable rhymes with ‘risk:’ short ‘i,’ hard ‘c.’ It’s the element that powers electric fish. Incredibly obscene in certain circles. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/11 "2006-12-10T14:32:58Z")
Larry Niven’s “Gil Hamilton” stories (Gil’s a 22nd century police detective) feature a rather amusing quasi-euphemistic expletive: _“Bleep!”_. As in “What the bleeping hell did you think you were doing?” It is, of course, derived from the bleep that TV censors used to mask over an impermissible language choice, turned into profanity itself. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/12 "2006-12-10T14:46:44Z")
_Twunt_…says it all, really. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/13 "2006-12-10T17:27:37Z")
My favorites, in no particular order: Cheese and crackers! Frickin’ frack! Sons of mothers! ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/14 "2006-12-10T17:52:07Z")
Crab Spackle!! ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/15 "2006-12-10T18:53:24Z")
“Earmuffs” is from a movie. It’s some crappy Vince Vaughn movie but I can’t remember which one. I know that doesn’t narrow it down much because all Vince Vaughn movies are crappy. Was it Old School? ---
**Author:** ![Tully\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ab992/32.png) [@Tully\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tully_Mars)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/16 "2006-12-10T18:54:02Z")
My grandmother liked to use “teawaddy” as an expletive. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/17 "2006-12-10T19:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=susan\_foster] Makes a nice addition to others like: Nut Bunnies! \_\_\_\_\_\_ing! Susan [/QUOTE] Yeah, but it sounds better if you really scream it. “SOOOOO-SAN!” I’ll try it next time I hit my finger with a hammer. ---
**Author:** ![Yeeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/96bed5/32.png) [@Yeeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeeter)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/18 "2006-12-10T19:43:02Z")
Granddad used to say “rats in a bucket!” **Cisco** Yes it was “Old School” he was having his child cover his ears so he could swear in front of him. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/19 "2006-12-11T04:22:23Z")
My grandma says, “God bless America!” when she’s particularly irked. She says it like it’s the most foul words imaginable. ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517/20 "2006-12-11T06:56:19Z")
[QUOTE=No Power In The 'Verse] When I counseled this summer at a camp I had to get creative. Always wanting damn it to roll off my tongue I eventually turned that into danish. From there it evolved into the most amazing swear word substitute ever; cinnamon danish. I now mutter that under my breath more than any thing else. [/QUOTE] when I was a camper, we did the same sort of thing. summer between seventh and eighth grade, I think. And most of the kids were a bit older. When we would swear, we’d be admonished- “that’s not camp appropriate.” Of course, since our counselors were mostly college-age or so, they weren’t too hardass. They still wouldn’t let us swear, but they’d joke about it. So we all made up replacement words “cupcake you!” “no, cupcake you!” or just say “NCA” in place of things. (NCA=not camp appropriate) and of course we’d end up stepping on a rock and being all, “shi… cra… jesu… GOSH DARN IT! GOLLY GEE WHIZ! HOLY MOTHER OF CHEESE BALLS!” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-new-swear-word/383517.md?page=2)