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   What are some funny/strange/foul things that you say or have said in the past, or have heard someone else say in moments of frustration or anger?
    Mine range from the mild, yet frequent, "I need this like I need a______(fill in the blank, I really can't be that blunt here) and, "If I could drink, I would be drunk right now" to my most random: "God, I wish somebody would just throw me up against a wall and kiss me!".  Never saw that coming, it just fell out.
   I said it quite viciously at work (hospital) during a usual day chaos/no food/no bathroom/no staff running through a unit full of coworkers, bosses, and (unfortunately) patients. Today I'd be sent to HR and fired, but back then it broke the tension, that's for sure!  Big laughs, and nobody ever brought it up again except one person who gave me that kiss later, thank you very much!  Oh, to be young again!  
    Share with me your strange, your random, your funny utterances.  I'm hoping to find some new ones!

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My grandmother:
"Holy Hannah"
"Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!"

My brother-in-law's mother, to her two adult sons:  "If you don't cut out the roughhousing, I'm going to rip your arms out and beat you with the bloody stumps!"

Overheard in a parking lot:
"Judas Priest in a crack house, get your sh** together!"

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my grandmother was definitely of the 'rip yer head off and feed it to____' persuasion!!!
my mother grew up getting yelled at in Sicilian dialect by her stepfather and it must have been pretty bad (or maybe that part of her brain didn't get developed) because she never said anything in anger, ever (if we weren't practically biological clones I'd wonder if I'm even related to her).

We do a lot of multilingual threatening, but all in good fun. The dog, particularly, is often told that his tail is going to end up in the soup if he doesn't stop doing whatever annoying thing he's up to. Still, my most frequent utterance is probably the good old "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!"

(many years ago we had nursing care in-home when we lived in Rhode Island. the combination of crusty yankee personality and seen-it-all nurses was very fertile ground for diversified vocabulary!! one time my daughter's feeding tube came out and nobody, from the nurses to the chief GI surgeon, could get it back in. We heard some pretty salty talk that day.... hats off to nurses and hospital staff!!)
 
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A couple of my go-to's:

"Great Caesar's Ghost...!"

"Son of a thousand whores...!"

"Curses! Blast and drat!"

"We carry a new world here, in our hearts..." --Buenaventura Durruti
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When the casserole just coming out of the oven hit the floor my Mom let fly with the longest combination of swear words I'd ever heard - 8 plus an 'and' with lots of commas indicating a list    Colour me gobsmacked!
I'm fond of exclaiming "sausages" -  quite some satisfaction in the sibilance there;  or "well just bummer" or "bu**ar bum balls"  In moments of extreme stress when I was working (paid sort)  I'd go outside and deep breathe under the lemon scented gum - that was always good.  Otherwise it's just the go-to words usually printed using asterisks and such. . .

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My Grandpa said that his Dad worked with a very pious man who was known to be quiet and even tempered, and never said a mumbling word.  Except in times of great frustration or vexation he was known to exclaim, "MISCHIEF!"

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
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Jill Dyer wrote:When the casserole just coming out of the oven hit the floor my Mom let fly with the longest combination of swear words I'd ever heard - 8 plus an 'and' with lots of commas indicating a list    Colour me gobsmacked!
I'm fond of exclaiming "sausages" -  quite some satisfaction in the sibilance there;  or "well just bummer" or "bu**ar bum balls"  In moments of extreme stress when I was working (paid sort)  I'd go outside and deep breathe under the lemon scented gum - that was always good.  Otherwise it's just the go-to words usually printed using asterisks and such. . .



"8 plus an 'and' with lots of commas indicating a list  "
Great description! I can hear it now, hahahaha!
As for sibilance,  you made me remember using "son of a dog" when the kids were young.  They didn't pick that up, but the ONE time I slipped while dealing with aggressive bees in a parking lot led my daughter to instantly develop a happy "F***ing bees! F***ing bees" song and dance.

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George Ingles wrote:My Grandpa said that his Dad worked with a very pious man who was known to be quiet and even tempered, and never said a mumbling word.  Except in times of great frustration or vexation he was known to exclaim, "MISCHIEF!"



Love it.  It creates 2 alternating pictures in my mind:  a cartoon wizard and that of a  "a very pious man who was known to be quiet and even tempered"

It also reminds me that I used to say "Jiminy Crickets!"

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Tereza Okava wrote:my grandmother was definitely of the 'rip yer head off and feed it to____' persuasion!!!
my mother grew up getting yelled at in Sicilian dialect by her stepfather and it must have been pretty bad (or maybe that part of her brain didn't get developed) because she never said anything in anger, ever (if we weren't practically biological clones I'd wonder if I'm even related to her).

We do a lot of multilingual threatening, but all in good fun. The dog, particularly, is often told that his tail is going to end up in the soup if he doesn't stop doing whatever annoying thing he's up to. Still, my most frequent utterance is probably the good old "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!"

(many years ago we had nursing care in-home when we lived in Rhode Island. the combination of crusty yankee personality and seen-it-all nurses was very fertile ground for diversified vocabulary!! one time my daughter's feeding tube came out and nobody, from the nurses to the chief GI surgeon, could get it back in. We heard some pretty salty talk that day.... hats off to nurses and hospital staff!!)

 

    AH, feeding tubes and cursing.  They were so simple in concept and design,  yet, on rare occasions, took aggravation to a whole new level.  I hope your daughter did well.
    When my grandmother exclaimed "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!", I'd always be a little afraid. To have her invoking all three in a manner that did not seem quite respectful always produced an awed silence among the (many) grandchildren.  

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By myself, I pretty much use Paul Wheaton exponentially to the 10th power.   I was born and spent the early part of my life in Detroit.  We had a Syrian neighbor who I learned some colorful phrases from …in Syrian.  I used this when others are present.  It would appear I am still pretty much on target with the pronunciation.  In a hotel lobby in Atlanta I had a piece of luggage open and papers fell out.  Some ladies with covered heads turned and looked at me with big smiles on their faces.

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Whild dumpster diving last year I agitated some yellow jackets who very quickly informed me that they had the situation under control. While flailing my arms and running for cover, this came out of my mouth:

"This was not on the agenda today!"

There was a time when I may have used spicier words, of simply groaned outwardly as the spirit gave utterance. But I was proud of myself for staying in character.

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Harry Morgan from MASH tv program comes to mind as an actor that can express frustration eloquently.

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From my dad, "Aww, BUNK!!" Usually blurted out in frustration at something someone else said, that he thought was a bald-faced lie.

Some I've used: Horse feathers!! Dag-nab-it!! Sonuvabiscuiteater!! Oh, well that's just CRAPTASTIC!! Dadgummit!!  Vell, CHIT!!   Ritzenfritzenratzenmahbletsit!!!  GLARB!!!  BLARG!!

"The only thing...more expensive than education is ignorance."~Ben Franklin. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light." ~ Plato

 
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Hubby does *not* tolerate swearing - which in today's society where we live, makes him quite the outlier.

Generally, I managed to keep swearing out of the kids vocabulary when they were young by reminding them they has *much* more creative words they could use, and swearing was for people with poor vocabularies and no imagination.

So my eldest turned the words, "Bagel Box" into a swear word. I have only some guess as to why he chose those particular words, but never asked.

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My go to expletives for venting frustration are things like, Fiddlesticks!  Crabapples!  Hachi-Machi!  
When experiencing sudden physical pain, I usually make noises like a Kookaburra, a Cougar, or a Gremlin.

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
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A friend's son was watching his dad and I moving a vehicle onto a trailer when it went awry. Hands on his hips, instead of "Holy Smoke" he used "Holy Smokin Joes", I still use it.

Our inability to change everything should not stop us from changing what we can.

 
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