[PW] Plut and Shazbat! - TANJ!

[Marian Drabkin]

My mother's favourite expletive was
"Fiddlesticks!"  (She was a violinist.)

Marian Drabkin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John P. Dyson" <dyson at indiana.edu>
To: <list at project-wombat.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: [PW] Plut and Shazbat! - TANJ!


> Quoting Dennis Lien <Dennis.K.Lien-1 at tc.umn.edu>:
> 
>> At 11:00 PM 4/30/2008, you wrote:
>>> My favourite made-up expletive is TANJ! - used in Larry Niven and Jerry
>>> Pournelle's Ringworld series of Sci-Fi novels. It's an acronym for
>>> "There Ain't No Justice!".
>>
>>
>> Marvel Comics used to have such tough-guy characters as Luke Cage,
>> Hero for Hire "swear" by shouting "Spit!" and describing things
>> as "freakin' ."
>>
>> My favorite personal expletive substitute is "squid and petunias!"
>> Doesn't mean anything in particular, but certainly *sounds* as though
>> it ought to do so.
> 
> 
> When I was in college I worked summers for a straight-laced farmer who 
> expressed his exasperation with "GOT DOWN a PITCHFORK!!!!" He varied 
> that with "GOT poison ivy and SOME OF IT ITCHES!!!!" From a distance, 
> they sounded worse than what he was avoiding.
> 
> John Dyson
> 
> 
> 
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