Words that sound dirty, but really aren't.

What the fuck is a curse jar?

http:// www .youtube.com/watch?v=EvU1t_mqB_w (pretty much NSFW)

How about you just explain it to the person who is allowed to curse at work but for whom youtube is blocked.

Aw, that’s no fun! It’s a tool (heh) meant to discourage swearing. Anytime someone swears, he has to put a certain amount of money in the jar.

Conjugate. As seen on Animaniacs:

Jackhole.

Seamen.

Follicular.

cummerbund.

Dill weed.
Dill hole.
I flubbed that. (My late MIL actually considered it bad and punishable! :confused:)
Mother Nutter. I just made that one up and I kind of like it!
Masticator.

You won’t get away with this one in the office. But if you were working in bulk stores, you’d have to use a bung tool to open and reseal 55 gallon liquid drums. They’re usually big, heavy brass things with lots of protrusions. Brass, because brass won’t make sparks against drums full of flammable liquids, and many protrusions, because different bungs have different cap shapes and your tool needs to be able to open all of them, even ones that have been stripped a bit.

Back in my old student job, I could never pick up the bung tool without thinking ‘blunt object’, which, given the amusement value of thinking ‘bung tool’, shows the level of blunt objectness it had.

**Defunct

Funicular

Spelunking

Volva

Bastard File**

Physics is full of edgy-sounding terms:

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Stimulated Emission

Spontaneous Emission

Degenerate Perturbation Theory**

The bung tool is used to insert the bung into the bunghole.

Also, vibraphone.

Also, defenestration.

Götterdämmerung

Shrubbery

Not so much dirty as offensive-sounding: niggardly.

Sex bolts. Vomitory.

Okay, okay, I should check before posting. A vomitory is an architectural feature, but it’s more properly called a vomitorium, seemingly. In fact, Cecil has written it up: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2421/were-there-really-vomitoriums-in-ancient-rome.

And there’s also a Swedish heavy-metal band called Vomitory. And one of the entrances to Hell is also called Vomitory, sez Wiki.

Huh. I keep learning things.

This rminds me of the actual designated vomiting area in Gulliver’s in Sukhumvit Soi 5 here in Bangkok. A large metal basin. They ask that you throw up there and not in the sinks or toilets. Quite a good idea, I think.

My dad taught me “farkleberry”, which he started saying to avoid teaching us wee ones advanced vocabulary too early.

As in, “Oh farkleberry, I have to edit this post because ‘to’ is not the same as ‘too’!”