Creative profanity

[banned]

There is a fine art to swearing and hurling epithets. You can't just throw it at the wall and see what sticks or you just look like a fucking dolt.<br><br>So, what are your favorite cuss words/epithets?<br><br>'Fuck' will never go out of style. It's a noun! It's a verb! It's an adjective! You can scream it, growl it, snarl it, holler it, or whisper it through gritted teeth. My favorite variant lately is 'clusterfuck' which is military jargon. A clusterfuck is worse than FUBAR (fucked up beyond all repair) which in turn is worse than SNAFU (situation normal, all fucked up.)<br><br>I have always been a fan of 'asshole'--it's short and to the point and usable in so many situations, sort of a Swiss Army knife of an insult. But recently I have fallen in love with 'fucktard.'<br><br>I prefer 'shite' to shit these days. <br><br>I stole 'asshat' and 'assclown' from "Television Without Pity", a hilarious teevee fansite. <br><br>It's always fun to swear in foreign languages too, like French ('merde!') and Italian ('vafongul!')<br><br>I also swear in Dutch, having had a Dutch co-worker for awhile. He used to crack up when I'd pop off with 'Potverdoorie!' (Poteferdooree, literally, 'pot of shit') or 'Godverdomme' (Hoteferdohmah), God damn.)<br><br>I can also say "Stick it up your big fat ass" in Slovak, but can't spell it. It sounds like "Polooh na kloosta velky reetz." Any Slovaks out there, feel free to correct me.<br><br>British English isn't really a foreign language, but I picked up 'sod' and 'sod it' from an English co-worker. I thought it meant drunk till he told me it's short for 'sodomite/sodomy.<br><br>C'mon, you silly sods, get off your kloosta vlky reetz and share the shite you talk when you're faced with a real asshole!<br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>

[jenz]

with the blunt end of the ragman's trumpet is an oldie but goodie imho <p></p><i></i>

[jenz]

one too few, should be scew not f word, as screw has extra nuance for trumpet players apparently.<br><br>calling someone towrag has pedigree, harks back to days before toilet paper, when a person could hope for royal preferment if he were a gentle hand with same. good for bush boys if you fall for the claptrap about royal lineage.<br><br>like the nuances in "ta mere" french cite insult. understated, with absolute contempt<br><br>putain or putain merde more general, but not as verb - with a nasal snarl on last syllable it has potential, .... <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

I was starting to think I was the only one around here who cussed!<br><br>One of my favorites has long been "Fuck you and everyone who looks like you and the horse you all rode in on" which I picked up from a friend in theater--have no idea where he got it. <p></p><i></i>

[Watchful Citizen]

Lots of his comedies have a kind of raunchy sit-com tone with lots of put-down humor, kind of 'Married With Children' tacky..<br><br>My fave is quite simple but phonetically satisfying: "Froth and scum!" <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

1. "I could shine my ass, back into the post office, and pick up his mail any day."<br><br>2. "If my dog looked like him, I'd shave its ass and teach it to walk backwards." <p></p><i></i>

[jenz]

disappointed that no-one is letting rip here banned, and wonder if we should allow gentler minds to distance themselves from the responsibility of admitting that they know any of this stuff . say enlarge the collection to political epithets. example, one of my favs, seen in the birthplace of Le Pen during last election time, was the laconic piece of graffiti LE PEN FILS DE PUTE <p></p><i></i>

[banned]

...that contained insults and bad reviews given to artists of various sorts from the Renaissance or so on. I was surprised to find that the most vituperative, not to mention creative, comments were directed at composers. When you figure that it's a rare writer who has someone show up at his house to throw rotten vegetables at it because they didn't like his book, but many composers have suffered that, not to mention riots and near riots at the conclusion of their opuses (opi?), I guess I shouldn't have been that surprised.<br><br>I began to realize that we've all become wussified. The nastiest theatrical reviewer I can ever remember reading was John Simon, and he was only a shadow of the rhetorical bombs that critics routinely lobbed at their subjects Back in the Day. (I've never forgotten the time he dispatched the subject in his title--it was a play called "PS Your Cat Is Dead" and Simon's title was "PS So Is Your Play." However, the briefest bad review may well be apocryphal, being the critic whose entire review of a production of "Much Ado About Nothing" consisted only of repeating the title of the play.<br><br>I also once read a list of things that people had said about historical figures Americans now mostly consider sacrosanct, and they were more vicious than anything I have heard a politician say about another in my lifetime. I mean this stuff was utterly scurrilous.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>