Anyone else have any "near beer" cuss words?

My favorite one was 'Hell's Bells'. My Mom's replacement word for the 'suspicious hole in tree'. I overheard it recently in a store and cracked up laughing..
Chunna

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My mother-in-law was always quite indignant that her mother once punished her for taking the lord's name in vain, when all she said was "Cheese and Rice." YEARS later she was still telling that story!

Oh, man! I thought my mom would KILL me in 3rd grade when I came home with "Where do bad elephants go when they die? Ellifino!" I was in 8th grade when I understood WHY she was mad! ;-)

The Sprite

My husband has always had the habit of sneezing by saying "ahch--" ending with "it" instead of the traditional "oo". When my children were little I tried to avoid having them learn how to swear so I always yelled "No choo"" at him. When Archimedes' Screw was about 3 we were shopping and an irate stranger yelled the "s" word. She marched up and firmly told him, "No choo".

-Cape Cod Lightning Bug

I went camping this summer for the first time with a friend whose children came along. In watching our swears (which gets more and more difficult with more and more beers) we finally just decided to use fork and shirt for the respective f and s words. It must have sunk in a little, b/c everyonce in a while I find myself saying "what the fork!" without even meaning it.

Hmmmm...... beer, campfires, and fear of snapping twigs in the dark.... what could be better? It's certainly winter right now here, daggum it!

Moonduck (an accomplished curser, especially with a full beer belly and a story to tell)

My father is a burly little italian guy who started out on the loading docks of Remington Arms gun factory and retired 45 years later as a top executive with the firm. But executive or dock hand..he still swears as blue as ever....lots of g-damns and son-of-a-b's. My mother was a WASP graduate of Keuka College...when only women were allowed to attend. And she NEVER swore EVER..which made it quite an interesting household when you were one of 6 children. I had my mouth washed out a few times by my mother after emulating my father! lol So I switched to "frikking"...which I still use to this day, although I could never say it in front of my mother because she would say..."Look, I know what you MEAN!"

My father says he heard my mother swear only once....while in college...and she was so angry she burst forth with "PISS DAMN SPIT!" Sort of a latent Tourette's thing....

LW

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Alright, on THAT note, let's talk watered down curse words, the kind your parents used around you or that you'd use to avoid getting in trouble for real cursing

These are mostly from my better-behaved Vermont relatives, because back home in Cali we just used the real ones!

Sugar (oh shhh... ugar!)
Fudge
Jeezum Crow
Criminy (I'm not even sure what that was supposed to replace)

-- Princess Lea

ok this thread makes me think of Johnny Dangerously every time i see it in the boards......ya fargin' bastages!