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Deeply embarrassing confession #1:
I occasionally use the epithet "Szplitz on Szplug!" when I am frustrated at myself. This epithet was coined (In French, mimicking fake-Czech) in a Tintin graphic novel involving the Iron Curtain, intrigue, and that irritating blonde opera singer whose name I forget.
Deeply embarrassing confession #2:
When I feel the need to express my opinions of other people's driving and/or ambulatory habits, I have fallen back on "dumb bunny!" with increasing regularity.
I think the guys in white coats are on their way here right now.
It's very handy to have British curses handy, because most local folk think I'm being all quaint and PBS-ly. Then actual Brits wander past and hear me and I have to apologize to their poor shocked selves.
I always wonder what visiting Brits think as they drive around and see all the gardening stores proudly declaring "SOD!" on their signs.
"oh lord love a duck" for disgust
I've been known to burst out with an extremely unladylike "oh for the love of little green apples!" every now and then.
God didn't make little green apples
And it don't rain in Indianapolis...
In college my favorite swear was "Fuck a flying dead duck!" Thus pissing off both the hunting lobby and the necrophiliacs in one swell foop.
These days I'm more likely to say "Christ on a crutch!" or "For the love of jebuslug!", the latter primarily in fannish locations.
heheheheheee! Suela said "swell foop"!
Okay, spoonerisms make me giddy. What?
And there is always the late '80s classic, "Fuck me gently with a chainsaw."
I don't know if I could have learned to swear without
Heathers.
I like "Bugger this for a bunch of bananas" and "Sod a dog".
"Fuck me gently with a chainsaw."
Which, for reasons I don't understand, seems to have evolved into "fuck me with a SPOON" as a favoured epithet of mine.