Posted on 10/20/2009 9:23:45 AM PDT by GQuagmire
We would herewith like to place a ban on the following words, phrases, and expressions, for reasons of overuse, offensiveness, or just because. Plus: Profanity alternatives!
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/funny-slang-language-dictionary/banned-words-1109#ixzz0UUgXOwS2
(Excerpt) Read more at esquire.com ...
belly laugh on that one........
No man would buy a magazine that’s 95% clothing advertisements with heavy gay overtones.
Yep.
Agreed. If you’re not going to say it, then don’t say something that says “you know what I really want to say at this point but I’m afraid to so I’ll say something that isn’t it but everyone will understand anyway.” If A=B, then any use of A in place of B means exactly the same thing as using B, complete with all the baggage B has.
Cussing may be low, but using a “clean substitute” which is unmistakably a veiled version of the same word is both low and cowardly.
On a tangent, a pet peeve is people being outraged about person X saying Y, yet they keep quoting Y over and over, blaming it on X, not realizing that by saying Y they’re, well, saying Y.
Which would only work if there was some financial instrument of mine to which she did not have access.
Not necessarily. Some etymologists suggest that it may have been derived during the Middle Ages (or earlier) from the word friction.
So there's the real possibility that it's a "genuine obscenity" -- as opposed to some kind of circumlocution.
(It would be out of keeping with this thread's high tone, however, to speculate about where the "friction" in question might have been occurring those hundreds of years ago, when the Angles, the Saxons and the Normans were developing our language's four-letter words.)
Interestingly, competing magazine Men’s Journal has absolutely no risque content (explicit or implied), yet exudes far more “macho” than any other such magazine (and does so without getting absurd about it).
“I read it in Redbook!”
“The Cosmo article said..”
Outside of the Hardy Boys, I've never seen or heard an actual human male use "trousers" in a sentence.
Enough with both.
Thanks for these pings SaA.
I have a problem with “Boobs” being on this list.
No kidding.
If I was in the market for a 20 thousand dollar watch maybe i would check out this rag.
Ah...thats what c-— meant.
I thought it was some kind of new fag programming language.
It is what it is...
oops
Your place looks FABULOUS
Do these pants make me look fat?
My wife and I are pregnant
I'd like a LIGHT beer, please
There's a lot of unnatural phrases for men
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uxvXA8Aqh4&feature=related
If you’re a man who wants to live a long and hsppy life,these are the things you don’t say to your wife.
Remember Steve Martin’s “I believe”?
I remember the bit, just not the details.
OH, and Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeee Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
"My friends..."
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