Seven Days of Euphemisms (day 7)

Wow, what else is there?  I know I have missed a lot of them out here.

 

The final list:

 

Crazy

Loco

Looney Toons

Off your rocker

Gone 'bye bye'

Nuts

Section 8

Whacko

Cuckoo

Batty

Unglued

Psycho

Kooky

Bonkers

Mad as a Hatter

Daft

Slipped a Cog

and, of course my favorite...'Anne'

Seven Days of Euphemisms (day 6)

Brain...freezing...up.

 

I'm grasping for a category...

 

So, in honor of the horrendously large marguerita I had last night (car keys surrendered to dinner companions, of course).

 

I give you THE DRUNK LIST:

 

Smashed

Snockered

Soused

Three Sheets to the Wind

Pissed

Tipsy

Buzzed

Plastered

Plowed

Sloshed

Inebriated

Juiced

Tanked

Lit

 

 

Seven Days of Euphemisms (day 5)

What else do they have euphemisms for?

How about killing?
Whack
Dust
Splash (Naval Term)
Sleep with the Fishes
Dirt Nap
Wasted
Liquidated
Passed Away
Finish Off
Put to Sleep
Dispatch
Knock Off
Ice
Do In
Hit

Leave it to Hollywood to leave lots of these.

Seven Days of Euphemisms (day 4)

Let's go to the lighter side of things for this one:  Literary and Entertainment

 

"He Who Must Not Be Named" - Lord Voldemort (oops, guess I named him)

 

"The Scottish Play" - It is considered bad luck to refer to MacBeth inside a theater.

 

Frak - I can't wait until the censors REALLY start getting into BSG.  The FCC is the thought-police, right?  So if we give meaning to it that they don't like then they are morally obligated to protect the children.

 

 

Seven Days of Euphemisms (day 3)

Ah, the time honored pastime of coming up with new names for vomiting. I'm not quite sure why we have come up with new names for it (perhaps ashamed of the behavior that led to it?).

Anyways, here goes:

Ralph
Blow Chunks
Toss Chunks
Blow Cookies
Toss Cookies
Drive the Porcelain Bus
Pray to the Porcelain God
Heaving
Velching (the belch that is almost a vomit)
Hurl
Retch
Spew
Puke
Upchuck
Barf
Spit up (let's face it, a baby vomits A LOT)
Throw up
Regurgitate (technically a medical term but I thought I would throw it it)
Urp (ever the onomatopoetic)
Be sick

and the tragically popular...

"My diet."

Seven Days of Euphemisms (day 2)

Why are all the good euphmemisms sexual?

Here is one that my folks used:

"We are going to the Submarine Races."

When I was little I wasn't sure if the submarines raced above or below the water but they were apparently held often and were also apparenltly quite enjoyable.

Seven Days of Euphemisms

A Euphemism is a word or phrase that describes a thing or event using (hopefully) socially acceptible language.

I'm a big fan of them.

So, in an attempt to start posting again. I am going to put up one a day for a week. Some will be widely known ones, others will be just my own.

The first is one that my ex used.

Tallywhack - Male to Female genital reassignment surgery

We did have some major differences. Life was not often fun. But she did have her funny moments. I like the fact that this is a euphemism of a euphemism (Tallywacker refers the male anatomy itself) and it is an amusing play on words.