I said, "Jesus, Joseph and Mary!" in a meeting with my boss, who made a crack about being raised Catholic. Which he is, too.
At least I didn't say, "Shit, piss, and corruption!", which used to be one of my mother's more outrageous swears.
Darn your sinister attraction!
Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Consuela - Feb 23, 2012 12:18:50 pm PST #17951 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Amy - Feb 23, 2012 12:21:20 pm PST #17952 of 28266
Because books.
"Shit, piss, and corruption!",
Oh man, I like that one.
I was saying "Tartar sauce!" for a while, when the kids were little. It's surprisingly satisfying.
smonster - Feb 23, 2012 12:29:37 pm PST #17953 of 28266
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
My dad says "damnation!" and "I swanny." For real, no sense of irony, "I swanny." Or is it "swannee?"
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2012 1:06:20 pm PST #17954 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My parents used to just not swear around us, until traffic just got too much when I was about 14 or so. One branch of our family (one of the crazy ones) swore liberally around their kids, but only in Patois, so at least when the kid went to school (in the upper class white Detroit suburb where they lived) no one had any idea what she was on about.
Way to go to not put your heart into it.
flea - Feb 23, 2012 1:08:57 pm PST #17955 of 28266
information libertarian
My mother used to use 'Ayatollah Khomenei' as a swear.
My father was fond of "What the hell are you doing, shit-for-brains," which came back to bite him in the ass when my two year old brother said it to him one day.
Ginger - Feb 23, 2012 1:10:21 pm PST #17956 of 28266
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
"I swanny."
I was just thinking of this earlier. It really takes a swear-averse culture to use a euphemism for "I swear."
In the last 10 years, my mother has started saying "bitch" tentatively, when the person being described is one. I've never heard her swear. She slams things instead.
Scrappy - Feb 23, 2012 1:14:51 pm PST #17957 of 28266
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My mom says "Oh, ick," which is a very 1940's teenager way to not-swear.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 23, 2012 1:17:36 pm PST #17958 of 28266
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
A few weeks ago when my family and I were locked out of my parent's van after dinner, Mom yelled "SHIT!" in front of the restaurant entrance, which is absolutely hilarious considering how much of a goody two-shoes she is. Much of my own annoyance at the situation disappeared as a result.
smonster - Feb 23, 2012 1:31:16 pm PST #17959 of 28266
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
When I told my mom I had a boyfriend (after almost a decade of being a total lezzie, as far as she knew), she exclaimed, "holy SHIT!!" Which sent my sister and me into gales of laughter, and then she chided herself for cursing on the Sabbath, which just made us laugh more.
Connie Neil - Feb 23, 2012 2:03:33 pm PST #17960 of 28266
brillig
I said "Oh my god," once, and my mother nearly drove off the road, she was so busy telling me how horrified and disappointed she was in me.