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Saddletank
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There is this stand up comic (I won't say who he's VERY rude) but he did a sketch - as though relating a joke where he was talking to a vicar. His lines were delivered dead pan, even calm and friendly while the vicar said eff-this and eff-that all the time. So, role reversal. It was, I'm ashamed to admit, so funny it hurt.
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Loscil
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Lee Evans is a good comedian who swears a lot.
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Do I swear? F*** no.
Seriously though, I try not to swear at all. It's not really necessary. I prefer to make up my own words.
"You SHIZMONKEY!"
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I do actually make up my own swearwords sometimes.
Or I use every day words and convert them to swearwords, or rather, light insults.
A good example is my friend who too a particular liking to the insult "lemon", which was eventually substitued by "cheesburger".
My favourite made up word is not a swearword however. It is the word "woozle", which is a verb that describes being lazy and doing nothing significant. Not really doing "nothing."
It would be used in context as..
"So what did yuo do on sunday?"
"Oh, nothing really, I was just woozling about."
Strangely enough 90% of the people I mention it to, get the meaning, or at least, dont question the word.
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Farren
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when i call people geraldeens left leg they know there in trouble
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quote:
Originally posted by JRR
Strangely enough 90% of the people I mention it to, get the meaning, or at least, dont question the word.
Well i wouldnt question someone who came up to me saying "Lemon cheeseburger woozle!" either..
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| 10.07.2007, 08:24 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Saddletank
There is this stand up comic (I won't say who he's VERY rude) but he did a sketch - as though relating a joke where he was talking to a vicar. His lines were delivered dead pan, even calm and friendly while the vicar said eff-this and eff-that all the time. So, role reversal. It was, I'm ashamed to admit, so funny it hurt.
Theres this great australian show that did a sketch making fun of the type of comedians who are only funny because they swear..
i would post the link but i might get in trouble...
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did that show happen to be THE CHASERS WAR ON EVERYTHING one of the best show's on australian 
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Originally posted by Farren
did that show happen to be THE CHASERS WAR ON EVERYTHING one of the best show's on australian
haha. yes, of course.
one of the only two things i actually 'watch' on tv.
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I swear like a trooper, but only when by myself or people who I know won't get offended. I'd never swear around my children for instance unless the circumstances REALLY demanded it. I never swear in public either unless it was a place where I know minors won't be, like a pub - I hate it when I hear young kids swearing at the top of their voices with no care about who can hear.
But on my own or with my wife or friends swearing is fair game, often the filthier the better. It's a fun game to try and think up the most disgustingly filthy word you can and drop it in conversation as if it were mundane. Or if playing a computer game and losing... how can that not demand a swear word?
You puritanical people who are, "Oh, I don't need to swear to make me feel human etc. yadda bleh" are missing the point... swearing makes jokes and certain situations 23% funnier, FACT!
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Meh, different things are funny for different people, I suppose.
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Saddletank
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quote:
Originally posted by Ramah
I swear like a trooper, but only when by myself or people who I know won't get offended. I'd never swear around my children for instance unless the circumstances REALLY demanded it. I never swear in public either unless it was a place where I know minors won't be, like a pub - I hate it when I hear young kids swearing at the top of their voices with no care about who can hear.
But on my own or with my wife or friends swearing is fair game, often the filthier the better. It's a fun game to try and think up the most disgustingly filthy word you can and drop it in conversation as if it were mundane. Or if playing a computer game and losing... how can that not demand a swear word?
You puritanical people who are, "Oh, I don't need to swear to make me feel human etc. yadda bleh" are missing the point... swearing makes jokes and certain situations 23% funnier, FACT!
Well, I'd take exception to most of that:
1) How do you know people who hear you swear won't be offended. Did you ask them first?
2) Last 100 pubs I went in all had minors in... and I bet a good few of them were subjected to obscenities from people like you.
3) You hate it when you hear young kids swearing? I hate it when I hear grown adults do it - when they should know better.
4) Yep, on your own, etc no worries. We agree. ANd yes, PC game losing can be frustrating.
5) Now you're judging me, calling me puritanical. Don't do that please its very rude. I don't swear because I choose not to, in the same way you choose to. I'm not judging you, I'm just saying that I don't do it because I feel I have the intelligence to use exactly the right words for a given situation. Sure I find swearing funny in some circumstances such as jokes or comedian's acts but if I were in a shop or a pub or a restaurant and you started doing it, I'd politely ask you to stop, especially since you hadn't checked first to see if I would be offended or not - you simply assumed I wouldn't be and that judgmentalism is worse than the actual swearing.
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I don't think he was referring to you when he said puritanical, but anyways, that whole sentence assumes that everyone thinks swearing has comedic value, which as you can see by this thread, isn't really true.
I've always found the whole "swear-dropping" thing in comedy to be a bit lame - come up with some real material, jeez. I mean some people apparently consider Seinfeld to be the greatest comedy show and there was no swearing in it at all.
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Classic clean comedy: Morecambe and Wise (British, 1960s) and The Two Ronnies (British, 1970s). Not a single rude word in 100s of episodes.
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the british are the funniest fellas on earth
and monty python saddle
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| 10.08.2007, 06:57 PM |
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Yep, but Python succumbed to swearing towards the end when they ran out of ideas.
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Farren
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ohh that sucks
the holy grail was awesome though
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Saddletank
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Indeed, but the Grail was just at the point they began using bad langauge, and Life of Brian had plenty in it. Before "Grail" they wrote pure comedy that relied on proper brain functions for its humour. Not just all muckiness.
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Farren
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in somthing completly different
my fathers favourite is the parrot scetch that is funny
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