My grandmother grew up in many early Utah mining towns and had the mouth of a coal miner. She tried not to swear but to no avail. She massacred many typical Mormon "swear words". Her favorite was "God Dangit" another was "gosh dammit".
I would die from laughter when she would barge into our play room and yell "God Dang it, you kids have your shit scattered from hell to breakfast". I miss her!
I was an inveterate cusser by the time I showed up at Ricks 51 years ago this month. I was very naive about pseudo cussing and had to stifle a laugh every time one of the TBM guys in my dorm used a phony cuss word....I was like, if ya need to say fuck, just fucking say it!! lol
My sister used to say, "I swear to Buddha" as a substitute for "I swear to God." I'm pretty sure to this day she still knows zero about Buddha or Buddhism.
swear to gawd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > say it super fast > > > Got-dandruff-&-some-of-it-itches
I love it! Here at the Assisted Living, there is a very elderly woman, I'm guessing in her nineties. Every couple of days, usually at the dinner table, she will start in cussing for no apparent reason. Last time, it was, " Go home, you goddamned son of a bitch!" She doesn't use any substitute words but in her defense, she has extreme dementia, maybe Alzheimer's, I don't know for sure. Regardless, she is hilarious to listen to :)
If he's still alive (my condolences if he's not), play him some Parliament sometime...he'll *love* it.
"...Make my funk the P. Funk I want my funk uncut Make my funk the P. Funk I wants to get funked up I want the bomb I want the P. Funk I want my funk uncut Make my funk the P. Funk I wants to get funked up..."
One of the Mormon missionaries I knew years ago used "flip" excessively. It seemed like every sentence he said had multiple uses of it. Like, "Flip, man. I'm flippin so looking forward to flippin P-Day this flippin week, you flipper!"
I was told that flip was the preferred "missionary cuss word" in the mission, but the missionary referenced above was really into using it!
My TMB heroine runs her pickup off the road in a snowstorm.
"'Oh, crap, CRAP!' She banged the steering wheel. 'Forgive me, Heavenly Father, I didn't mean that.' She tried reverse. The wheels spun in vain. 'Maybe I did.'"
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Fetch seems to be the latest I hear. In a conversation with a TBM woman she used it just like fuck, and she said it a lot. I thought, how sad that you have to censor yourself. If you need to say fuck, just say it for fucks sake.