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Favorite SF Profanity

What's your favorite fictional/SF profanity?

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clayj

clayj

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OK, obviously there shouldn't be any use of real profanity in this thread... so what's your favorite fictional profanity? The three that immediately come to mind for me are:

  • From the new Battlestar Galactica, we have the wonderful "frak" and its derivations (frakking, frakked up, etc.).
  • From Farscape, we have "frell" and its derivations (frelling, frelled up, etc.).
  • And from Firefly, the ever-popular "gorram".
What are your favorites? Vote above for one of these three or click Other and tell us what you think.
 
Shards! (Shards of the Egg) -- Dragonriders of Pern
Falkercarb (spelling?) -- Oldschool Galactica
Shazbot -- Mork
 
I'm a bit of a Heinlein fan, so I'll have to go with "frimp" and "kark," as well as the classic portmanteau, "slitch."
 
I dont like profanity.


But, all this fictional profanity seems fun, from reading the list, I like frak.


FRAK!
 
Oooh, thanks. It's one of those words Ill have to use once a day to get it deeply entwined into my vocabulary. 😎
 
well in firefly they do swear in mandarin i believe.

however i love frack,frak or whatever
 
eva01 said:
well in firefly they do swear in mandarin i believe.

however i love frack,frak or whatever
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They do use Mandarin to say stuff you can't usually say, but Mal is known to throw a "gorram" out there at least once an episode.
 
clayj said:
They do use Mandarin to say stuff you can't usually say, but Mal is known to throw a "gorram" out there at least once an episode.
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Actually, they say that the Mandarin cursing in Firefly is incredibly intense. I probably would have voted for if the Mandarin if it were an option.
 
WildCowboy said:
I'm a bit of a Heinlein fan, so I'll have to go with "frimp" and "kark," as well as the classic portmanteau, "slitch."
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I have to go with the Cowboy on this one. Heinie got a bit out there at the end, but he remains my favorite SF author. It's a close race, but he still wins, and I like his "swear" words as well.
 
I don't have a fictional profanity that's a particular favourite, but when I looked at the poll and saw 'gorram' it made me think of schizophrenic shotstopper Andy Goram, so I voted for that.
 
Frell is a nice all-purpose swear word... 🙂

I also like smeg head, as an insult, but using that on this boards would probably wake up the ban hamster, and that quickly gets messy... 😉
 
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