I just couldn’t let that pass without adding this link.
Nice link it totally goes with this thread:D
What really needs to happen is that fool should get a copy of the Bible in Tok Pisin. I bet she’d freak out when she sees the Tok Pisin word for “ashes”! It’s shit belong fire.
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Aw, thanks. <blush> Too bad that website isn’t producing new material any more.
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My grandmother didn’t like us saying “Oh my God”, “Oh my gosh” or other such things.
It is meant to be a substitute.
Think about gosh-darn. (Yes, it’s a primarily southern idiom as far as I know) I know you can catch what that is a substitute for. I would hazard a guess perhaps, in times when women were delicate flowers, and men didn’t talk vulgarly in front of them, these words might have been used instead. (OR they might have been used by the women to keep from sounding vulgar.)
True, in this day and age, it’s fairly innocuous, and more than likely the writers, producers, etc. didn’t even have a second thought about it.
You have 5 years with your kids (tops) to get all the good in, without significant influence from other children and their parents. However, if she’s this upset about it, her kids should be banned from TV.
I respected my grandmother enough not to say those things in front of her which she found distasteful though. It’s hard to push that on a 2 year old.
~J
Goofy says “garsh” all the time in the old Disney cartoons, which is just a variation of “gosh”. The Disney Channel is of course banned in my home because of this.
Not to mention, Goofy is a dog, and that’s dangerously close to doggone:
Will her God save her when dread Oswald awakens in sunken Big City plunging humanity into madness and despair! FEAR the gibbering malformed hordes of necrotic sausages come to unnatural life, and the loathsome plants with intelligences NOT FROM THIS EARTH! In the end she will curse God for allowing her to exist in the vastness of the uncomprehending cosmos!
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Oswald Big City wagn’nagl fhtagn!
Yeah, I was wondering about that, lokij. A friendly octopus in an underground city? Methinks I need to watch this show. It may have some deeper unholy meanings than I originally perceived…
“Gosh” may not be the only danger of the “Cuddly Cthulhu Happy Hour.”
Sad as it seems, the woman in the OP is not alone. When I was a kid, we were taught that “minced oaths” were just as bad (read: sinful) as actually cussing. Either of which would send you to hell.
Freakin’ Jeezus freaks. Dang them to Heck.
Not only is Oswald a Blasphemer, but he also has large tentacles.
Heeeeee!
It’s funny how they’re going on and on about Oh My Gosh and then suggesting to use Oh My Goodness when it’s still a substitute for God. A substitute is a substitute.
The whole debate is still silly. The fact that the kids aren’t using worse words is a miracle. Targeting a mild children’s show over the word gosh is just dumb.
Mommy better not rent any old W.C. Fields videos. I hear tell that he occasionally exclaims “Godfrey Daniel!”.
That’ll warp the little buggers but good.
My all-time favourite blasphemy, which I read in a cheesy novel a while back:
“I’m so hungry I could eat the leg off the lamb of God!”
In order to keep from offending people with religious exclamations such as “Oh my gosh!”, from now on Oswald will say, “Well fuck me sideways and call me Sally!” instead.
Did she really not capitalize “christian”?
Hmmm.
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Mmmm, sacrilicious…
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Sacred cows make the best hamburgers, you know.
I always thought this won the most blasphemous prize:
Homer: The first meeting of Hell’s Satans is called to order.
Flanders: I move we reconsider our club name, make it something a little less blasphemous. After all we don’t want to go to hell.
Barney: How bout the Devil’s pals?
Flanders: Ummm… no.
Moe: The Christ punchers.
Flanders: The Christ punchers?!!
I remember way back when, my sister coming home from catholic high school and telling us that they couldn’t use terms like Jeepers Creepers, or Jimminy Cricket because they were just another way of saying Jesus Christ.
Better not watch “Maisy Mouse” either. I heard Charlie call Eddie a cocksucker! 
[hijack] What the fuck is up with “Maisy Mouse”? Have you seen the credits for this show? I swear, it takes more people to put out this cartoon than it took to land men on the fuckin’ MOON!
Check it out sometime. It’ll blow your mind!
I scream, you scream, we all blaspheme for ICE CREAM!
Gee whiz, I hope she never looks into the history of “Zounds!”