Bleep words

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Should dam, the derivitave of damnation  be bleeped?

I don't think so. I keep forgetting it gets bleeped, and then it looks like I said something much worse.

Dammit

[cq_tech]

I was under the distinct impression that "berk" was English rhyming slang, and an abbreviation of "Berkington Hunt".

Of course, being well brought up, I have absolutely no idea what that means. 😉

[cherry*135]

Yes, bleepy Smith was funny.

We werent allowed to say dam n or that you hate someone either as kids... I have been moderated from a young age re profanity and hate speech!

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@cq_tech wrote:
I was under the distinct impression that "berk" was English rhyming slang, and an abbreviation of "Berkington Hunt".

Of course, being well brought up, I have absolutely no idea what that means. 😉

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Those Cockneys have a lot answer for.

It was either Berkington or Berk (pronounced bark) shire

[cq_tech]

Indeed they do. 🙂

BTW, I'm actually rather surprised that the first four characters of "Cockneys" somehow managed to get through unscathed...

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@cq_tech wrote:
Indeed they do. 🙂

BTW, I'm actually rather surprised that the first four characters of "Cockneys" somehow managed to get through unscathed...

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OMG! I never thought of that.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

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@paintsew007 wrote:

not directed at heffalump......I tell one of my bro's off constantly for calling people 'you TWIT!'......means a pregnant goldfish

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poppycock!   a twit is not a pregnant goldfish LOL

[cherry*135]

Tis so !

[ambercat16]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

Alll those little curse words

bother, dash and blow,

Lead to other worse words

And send you down below.

(One of of my Grandmother's old sayings)

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One of the nuns at boarding school used to say that too

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

'tis not!   (ya twit)

[cherry*135]

Or maybe not...

Pursuing the Australia angle, Jill E-mailed a fisheries expert down under, who replied, "I am perhaps not the best to ask about Australian slang (I'm a New Zealander, and for us twit and twerp are names for stupid people). However, I asked my colleagues and it seems that in Australia twit is indeed a name for a pregnant goldfish, as well as having the more normal meaning."

A solid lead or another dead end? Jill knew what to do. She posted a query on a message board run by Australian disciples of the Straight Dope. (They call themselves "the Teeming Handful" — check them out at http://pub31.ezboard.com/bgdope.) The response: (a) "It's definitely an Aussie [urban legend] that twit stands for a pregnant goldfish. It was one of those 'facts' we all knew at school." (b) It's not in the Macquarie Book of Slang, the definitive work on Australian colloquial speech, or in any other available book of Australian slang. (c) "I've asked my friends who are vets, and it's not a term used by either them or by fish breeders."

So there you have it. You can bull**bleep** the experts all you want. But the Teeming Millions know.