What's your favorite mild oath or invocation?

[Smoke]

What's your favorite mild oath, or one you heard that you can't get out of your head? Not asking for anything that will tax the automatic censor, mind you.

My grandmother and great-grandmother both used to say, "Ye gods!" and so I do, too.

I knew an Irishman whose favorite exclamation was "Jesus Christ from Galway!" I think that's my favorite.

I always liked one found in Cheaper By the Dozen, too: "God's teeth!"

 

[Bishka]

Holy Hannah or Holy Hell.

I am not sure where I picked up either of them.

 

[Wandered Off]

My mom used to say, "Hell's Bells!"

 

[Engyo]

Oh, my Buddha!

 

[Aqualung]

Bollocks and crap are my favourites.

 

[SoyLeche]

I said "freaking" enough in Peru that it is now a Spanish word to me (for the record, it wasn't just me - a lot of the missionaries in my mission picked it up, including the Peruvians)

 

[Nanda]

Gaddangit! (My friend from Alabama got me saying that one. It amuses me 'cause I'm a yankee.)

 

[Booko]

Oy vey and begorrah!

Zut alors!

Dog danglers!

Fudge!

Rats!

Sugar!

Consarn it, I've been hornswoggled!

 

[MaddLlama]

At some point I started saying "Christ on a cracker!"

This probably won't make sense to anyone else, but I also say "speeze on a stick".

 

[Booko]

At some point I started saying "Christ on a cracker!"

Ah...reminds me of "Jesus H. Tapdancing Christ"! I uh...try to stay away from that one.

This probably won't make sense to anyone else, but I also say "speeze on a stick".

Reminds me of something else on a stick.

I use a few choice foreign terms not generally understood in my area as well. I don't suppose I should type those, since they aren't exactly "mild."

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Most of mine will set off the censor.

Two of them me my co workers used at my last job, because we could actually be fired for swearing on the job (even though this was a job as a repo man, not customer service), was 'Bob Saget' and 'Tuba.' Allthough both words imply the same meaning as the words they replace, thus making them swear words, they worked.

 

[Azakel]

Lately when ever something crappy happens( like the saw blade braking at work), I say "By the Gods" Don't know why though.

 

[Isabella Lecour]

"I wish you a year of popped tires!"


Oh...yea wrong kind of invocation. So it would be Bloody Hell and that's as mild as I get. Anything else is usualy a sentence long.

 

[Booko]

My daughter's history class in 8th grade made "evolution" into a swear word as a joke, and...it stuck.

Her favorite curse: May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your nether region.

This is typically shortened to just "May the fleas"

 

[Booko]

I had quite forgotten until I was just in the Python thread:

Bum biters!

 

[Shadow Wolf]

One of my friends is known for saying; I hate you with the passion of a thousand suns

 

[Ðanisty]

My friend JD says "oh my higher being" and I've sort of picked up on that lately.

 

[Storm]

Great googly moogly

 

[Ðanisty]

Great googly moogly

ROFL...that reminds me of my first boyfriend. He used to say that all the time. He also used to threaten to kick people in the head with a hammer.

 

[MaddLlama]

My friend JD says "oh my higher being" and I've sort of picked up on that lately.

Similarly, in order to be more politically correct my husband and I don't really say "Bless you" anymore when someone sneezes. We say "may the Deity of your choosing cast felicitations in your general direction"

It's a mouthful, yes, but it's totally worth it just to see that deer in a headlights look on peoples faces.