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iphigenie:
Well I am sure everyone knows that when i am going "gmmmrrr" or "aargh" I mean just that. Animal instinct wanting to yowl or growl because something attacked me (or my toe, more often than not. pesky aggressive tables!), scared me (almost dropped something) or someone invaded my territory (i.e. frustrated by the dummy supplier or something).
We might be in the modern jungle but it's not that different ;)

Seriously, I didnt curse much. I'd go "ah this is so frustrating, grrr" or "darn, this solution didnt work either" and that was about it. Then I moved to england and they just curse all the time even on the phone to customers. And no matter what I try, it creeps up in your own language when all around you do it...  :-\

zridling:
My dad was a master cusser, especially when working on the car. Man, he could conjure up a shitstorm of words that was music to my pre-teen ears. I was indelibly marked (not marred) by his explosive reactions to anything that didn't work right. And if he misplaced or lost a tool, holy crap, steer clear. I see cussing as spice, as long as it's not meaningless. I hear people preface every other sentence with stupid qualifiers as "like," "actually," and "truthfully." Whaa? Just SAY it, and stop telling me you're going to tell me the truth.

Traditional British cuss words such as 'wanker,' 'bugger,' 'bloody,' and such have no real equivalents on the American side. But here's a few that do.

app103:
The first time my daughter ever used an expletive, I asked her what it meant and she didn't know. So I told her not to use words that she didn't know the meaning. That took care of things for awhile.

Fast forward to a few years later at about the age of 7 or 8 when she used another...and did know the meaning.

I handed her a thesaurus and told her to show her intelligence and choose more creative language, before someone makes a mistake and thinks she is either stupid or lazy.

She came up with a rather catchy amusing substitute. (I'll let you know what it was later in the story)  :D

A few weeks later, my husband was rather angry at a friend of his about something and called him the original expletive my daughter had used earlier. (he has a pretty hot temper and can cuss up a storm)

My daughter ran into the house and grabbed the thesaurus, came back out, handed it to her dad and told him the same thing I had told her.

He wasn't in the mood for it, threw the thesaurus across the courtyard and gave her a look like he was going to bite her head off.

She then said to him "Ok, ok, you can use mine if you want. You can call him a 'fanny cranny'." (I love this expletive substitute of hers!)  ;D

He replied with "How about I just call him a 'meatball'?"

"But Daddy...that doesn't mean the same thing." (brave girl, arguing with her dad while he is already angry)

He yelled out "I don't care...he has a meatball for a brain!"

Everyone else in the courtyard heard this and ever since that day, everyone has been calling my husband's friend by the nickname of "Meatball"...with most of them not knowing why.

This nickname has stuck with the poor guy for close to 14 years.

Even his bowling team called him that, and on occasion had even put that as his name on the scorecard.

Not long after that, I was having troubles with Windows Vista and it made me so very mad that for the first time in my life I really felt like saying some terrible things. Now App101 has a "welcome back" quote in the DC IRC channel of me saying the smurf word a lot. :-[
-Deozaan (August 26, 2007, 04:22 PM)
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<Deozaan> I have never purposely said a cuss word in my life and I'm ready to cuss big time!
<Deozaan> This is smurfing me off! I'm so smurfing smurfed by vista that I feel like smurfing the smurfing smurf out of the smurfing smurfer!

All that smurfing 'smurf' smurf really irritated the smurf out of my spellcheck!

cranioscopical:
app103All that smurfing 'smurf' smurf really irritated the smurf out of my spellcheck!

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C&P!  I was about to recommend the smurfchecker that I use but realized that, while it flags 'frums' and 'srumf', it misses 'surf'.  I guess it's one of these new-wave progams. 
Back to the drawing board. 

brownstudy:
WC Fields had several good ones: "Godfrey Daniels!" and "mother of pearl" and "Beelzebub!" and "Shadrach and Abednego!"

Other nice ones: chitlins! sugar! God Bless America! cheese and crackers!

And from the Simpsons, my favorite curse is from Apu: "Krishna H. Vishnu!"

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