Words I Don't Hate
Some words that I don't hate:
Singularity: not sure why.
Sphincter: It's a fancy-sounding word that's kinda nasty--the best kind. Plus I get the sense that I'm pronouncing every letter when I say it. Nothing wasted in sphincter, no siree. My junior year there was a girl I had eyes for who asked me whether I knew what it meant. Her assumption took some of the shine off of her, I mean the whole point of using a word like that is because YOU know what it means. When someone is in your face and you call them a sphincter, they know they should be insulted...they know that someone is calling them something bad, but since they don't know what it means, their brain puts out mixed signals, and nine times out of ten, they just sorta wander off--occaionsally towards the nearest dictionary.
Smegma: This is similar to Sphincter--obscure but nasty. Mostly I have to thank the UK TV show Red Dwarf for this one, although they claim that they never meant smegma, when they created SMEG as their all-purpose swear-word. Either way, I even made a t-shirt that said Smegma in big letter and wore it around school. Nobody objected.
Criminy: One of my favorite interjections---a double whammy of quaint and retro. According to the dictionary of slang, it's Etymology can be traced to Christ. It belongs in the same category as jeez, golly, goldarnit, sheesh, Jiminy Christmas--you get the idea. Hmm, pantheon is a pretty schmancy word too.
Frack: Yes. It's because of Battlestar Galactica that I picked up this gem. I usually combine it with bloody, to make bloody frack. I joke that I'm taking my typing teacher's name in vain. My freshman year my typing teacher was named Mrs. Frack. I think I got a C in typing, but as it stands, I can type about 80wpm, so I must've learned something.
Singularity: not sure why.
Sphincter: It's a fancy-sounding word that's kinda nasty--the best kind. Plus I get the sense that I'm pronouncing every letter when I say it. Nothing wasted in sphincter, no siree. My junior year there was a girl I had eyes for who asked me whether I knew what it meant. Her assumption took some of the shine off of her, I mean the whole point of using a word like that is because YOU know what it means. When someone is in your face and you call them a sphincter, they know they should be insulted...they know that someone is calling them something bad, but since they don't know what it means, their brain puts out mixed signals, and nine times out of ten, they just sorta wander off--occaionsally towards the nearest dictionary.
Smegma: This is similar to Sphincter--obscure but nasty. Mostly I have to thank the UK TV show Red Dwarf for this one, although they claim that they never meant smegma, when they created SMEG as their all-purpose swear-word. Either way, I even made a t-shirt that said Smegma in big letter and wore it around school. Nobody objected.
Criminy: One of my favorite interjections---a double whammy of quaint and retro. According to the dictionary of slang, it's Etymology can be traced to Christ. It belongs in the same category as jeez, golly, goldarnit, sheesh, Jiminy Christmas--you get the idea. Hmm, pantheon is a pretty schmancy word too.
Frack: Yes. It's because of Battlestar Galactica that I picked up this gem. I usually combine it with bloody, to make bloody frack. I joke that I'm taking my typing teacher's name in vain. My freshman year my typing teacher was named Mrs. Frack. I think I got a C in typing, but as it stands, I can type about 80wpm, so I must've learned something.
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