Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 05, 2022

Bless his heart!

Also, ever notice that you can get away with “poop” and “pee” in polite company but not their exact synonyms?

Phil isn’t going to like this

Not as hard as that paint is getting while they discuss cussing.

What the fork?

My dad would hit his thumb with the hammer and say, “Fooeykapatcho!”

Oh shoot!

As they said in Encanto. Miercoles!

Caulfield, what are you pointing/looking at? See your eye doctor.

Jesum Crow. Don’t ask me. I think I’ve only heard it in my immediate family.

Certain ancient and still very popular Anglo-Saxon Incantations still work their magic on a hammered thumb, a stubbed toe, or a barked shin. Eases the sudden pain to a more tolerable level.

Gosh darn it to heck!

“Godfrey Daniel”, as W.C. Fields would say.

Monosyllabic Anglo-Saxon term for copulation?

A friend of mine used to raise a certain breed of fowl, and I always thought the breed"s name would make a good expletive. If I hit my thumb with a hammer, I’d yell “Oh, Saxony ducks!”

Cursing is a bad habit and a sign of weakness. Think of all the people you have looked up to and admired. Chances are they don’t curse.

i was in Navy…and i still don’t swear…was told by my favorite nun in grade school that only people with poor vocabulary skills used swear words

I don’t swear in public or around my family. I use made-up words like “constandrabble” or “rotten snitzenfritz”. But 80% of the people I work with are Navy veterans and we still swear like sailors at work.

I’ve wondered how much longer the societal disapproval of swearing in public is going to last. I hear women dropping f-bombs around their kids while shopping in Walmart, and I’m in the buckle of the Bible belt. Plus, of course, at least a third of the population has shown they approve of crowds chanting that same word in a public space with kids present.

When I was a kid, I was so scrupulous that when I read literature that had some vulgarities, I would substitute euphemisms in my head. Gosh darn it.

Frazz 53, C&H 128 @ 0540

Zounds! Even if you actually pronounce the words it’s a euphemism for, most people wouldn’t think of it as much of a swear nowadays.

Compare with THE BUCKETS today. https://www.gocomics.com/thebuckets/2022/04/05

“Why swearing is a sign of intelligence, helps manage pain and more” https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/26/health/swearing-benefits-wellness/index.html

To reduce vandalism on the tool box at the dam in our village, a sign was posted: “Nothing in here but damn operating equipment.”

Sometimes those words are the only ones that fit.

Shut the front door!!

‘Good,’ ‘Love,’ ‘Help,’ ‘Kind.’ All four-letter words…

Profanity is the linguistic crutch of the inarticulate… well, you know the rest.

hard as hmm… can’t think of a word.

Hockeypucky, horse feathers!

Nothing like a good swear word to help get a difficult job done…

There are three kinds of “cursing”:

Vulgarity

Obscenity

Profanity

Of the three, only profanity is what Christians would call a direct sin as opposed to being simply a cultural issue\preference and (possibly) keeping your speech sober and not loose

Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung!

(It’s German for “speed limit.”)

Swearing is a challenge for schools. How do you educate your students that there are some places certain words are not appropriate to use without ever naming those certain words? Especially if their families or cultures use those words in practically every sentence.

I hardly even use swear substitutes anymore. When I’m that angry, I stop talking.

My mom washed my mouth out with soap one time for saying “gosh”. A friend had told her it was a substitute for a term taking the Lord’s name in vain.

When my kid got a note sent home from church-operated preschool for using a word they learned from me, I cleaned up my vocabulary quickly.

Frakkin’ A, Muc.

My great grandmother – I guess she lived in the late 19th century – would not allow any swearing or substitutes for swearing. Heck, darn, gosh – none of it was allowed. One of my great uncles came up with an expression to get past her “Holy suffering bald headed pussy cats!” Would probably get him in trouble with PETA today.

We had to teach our son when he was 5 or so that there were people, like his grandparents and his teachers, who might have the power to make things unpleasant for him if he used words they found offensive—although we, his parents, didn’t much care what words he used. The first time we got back from my in-laws’, where he’d gotten a scolding from a grandmother for just such an infraction, he came in, sat on the couch, and started declaiming “Ca-ca! Doo-doo!” at us just to make sure we’d been honest about it.

It’s not hard at all if you never start in the first place.

Ding blat it…

There was a show (Apple’s Way?) where the father chewed out his daughter for using profanity when she said “oh, blubber” – WTF??

Freaking difficult.