Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things: An Unusual Book of Euphemisms

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Author: Linda Berdoll

ISBN-10: 1402208855

ISBN-13: 9781402208850

Category: Invective -> Humor

At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare...\ Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$! off.\ Includes:\ \ Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails\ That "F"-ing word and other intensives\ Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the...

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At a loss for words, hockey puck? You can always quote Shakespeare... Or delve into this entertaining compendium of insults and verbal abuse, all couched in language of the most uplifting nature. Filled with common and not-so-common zingers that will both shock you and make you laugh your @$$! off. Includes: Exactly how to address individual mounds of foul, undigested lumps of donkey entrails That "F"-ing word and other intensives Many, many ways to refer to the part that goes over the fence last More euphemisms, synonyms, phrases and descriptions than you knew existed for sexual activities, proclivities, untoward incidents, accidents of nature and the beast with two backs Addressing the mentally incompetent, the cerebrally challenged, the absurdly bureaucratic, the impossibly rational and other instances of ineptitude, obfuscation or obstruction and much more!

Chapter 1\ Censuring the Fool:\ The Lost Art of the Insult\ Few would argue that some behavior is so abhorrent, it demands redressing. Regardless of justification-idiot drivers, impudent clerks, adolescents who have been spawned by the devil-we as a society simply cannot condone smacking the offender upside the head. (Admittedly, this decision is instituted only partly in deference to decorum, but also to the distinct possibility that said transgressor might be packing heat.) Since throwing the bric-a-brac can become prohibitively expensive, our only alternative is to let fly with a few choice words.\

Chapter 1. Censuring the Fool: The Lost Art of the InsultOf Hos and HoundsInternational Culinary ObservationsAt a Loss for Words, Hockey Puck? Quote Shakespeare!Sacre Bleu: Minced Oaths, Profanities and ExpletivesThe Body and Its ImperfectionsSilent Disparagement: The Bird and His FriendsCircumlocutionWorshipping at the Shrine of BacchusChapter 2. Indisposition Gastro-Intestinal DisorderPussyfooting around the Curse Crawling CreaturesSocial DiseasesFoul EmanationsIn the PrivyWring Out One's SocksAfflicted by Time's Winged ChariotThe Bucket Kick'dChapter 3. Bewitched, Bothered and BetwattledOverborne by DesireTemporary PriaprismHumbled in the Act of LoveThe Long CarbineDallying, Firkytoodling, and FinkdiddlingBowing at the Altar of ErosSafe Sex or Sex "Sain et Sauf"Men Behaving Badly