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!