The Breakfast Club had "hot beef injection" replaced with "hot love and affection."
My favorite was "Stuff you, man! Stuff you!".
You're talking to Serenity. And, Early... Serenity is very unhappy.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Eddie - Aug 18, 2005 10:37:09 am PDT #9171 of 10002
Your tag here.
Jesse - Aug 18, 2005 10:38:17 am PDT #9172 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sixteen Candles, Jake Ryan on the phone with Sam's grandparents: "Oh, hug me."
Betsy HP - Aug 18, 2005 10:38:32 am PDT #9173 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Frell is REALLY satisfying. I think it's the "fr" combined with the similarity to "hell".
Calli - Aug 18, 2005 10:39:51 am PDT #9174 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I auto-censor around my parents, my editor in chief (who reminds me of my parents), and anyone who looks like they are past retirement age. Auto-censoring tends to be a mix of the standard "darn" and "drat" with SFisms, such as "frelling."
"Frelling" really works for me. (Er, well, yeah--I think I'll just leave that out there. Anyway.) I think it's because it feels like a combo of "fucking" and "hell". Or maybe "frigging" and "hell." Which may be how they powers that create came up with it.
ETA: another frelling cross post.
JenP - Aug 18, 2005 10:39:55 am PDT #9175 of 10002
Jake. My first and best car was named after him.
(And I know I've posted that before, so I am all about keeping with the thread title)
-t - Aug 18, 2005 10:40:12 am PDT #9176 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I do like frak. I think I forget it's not really swearing, sometimes.
I think Eliot has been saying it on Scrubs since before the current BSG, though.
sarameg - Aug 18, 2005 10:40:20 am PDT #9177 of 10002
(who let fly with her first "fuck" a couple of weeks ago after her mom couldn't keep herself from yelling at other drivers on the way to the Children's Museum)
It must be a two-year-old mimicry thing. My nephew did that just recently, to his grandmother.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 10:41:49 am PDT #9178 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I say "Curses!" a fair amount now. Covers work and anything I may say loudly at krav. And "Fothermucker!" but that's not really like hiding anything.
I don't think F/X will show anything, or Dennis Leary was showing restraint -- their most profanity ridden ep lacked both cunt and nigger, IIRC.
Atropa - Aug 18, 2005 10:50:25 am PDT #9179 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I say "Curses!" a fair amount now.
That's a delightful image to have in my head. A very cross ita saying "Curses!"
I also say "Curses!", and "Bother!" I've apparently started using "squalling" to replace "fucking" (thanks to reading the Hopeless Savages comics).
Nutty - Aug 18, 2005 11:05:48 am PDT #9180 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
"Frelling" just rolls off the tongue. Another upside is that (a) most people don't recognize it and (b) although it flirst with profane sources, it cannot be mistaken for a curse word.
Whereas, I have one coworker who mutters "motherfletcher" to himself when he's in a bad mood. If you don't know, you could easily mistake it for the real thing.
I use "effing" at times, or "fricken" or other F-variant nonsense terms, but usually only for effect.