What in tarnation are those symbols called that are used to replace letters in swear words?
You know what I’m talking about. Where someone writes something like d@*# or s#!& or other such.
Yeah, those have a name, and you can watch this video is you want to know what it is. Or what a “tarnation” is.
Now, it’s your turn. You pick the topics. Or tell a joke. Or share wisdom. Whatever. Just no really bad language, okay? Use your grawlixes if you must.
Who wants to start?
Sounds to me like tarnation is just some kind of defugalty going by a different name.
A ‘tarnation’ is a nation that’s been tarred and feathered – like ours has been for the last 8 years.
And remember, when a grawlix isn’t indicated but the word is still forbidden by blog filters, use of umlauts is always handy. All of these work:
ÀÁÂÃÄÅ ÈÉÊË,ÌÍÎÏ ÒÓÔÕÖ ÙÚÛÜ Ý
àáâãäå èéêë ìíîï òóôõö ùúûü ýÿ
Is the verbal equivalent to a grawllix something like “crazzle frazzle ranz?”
And then there’s shibit libanguabage. Ciban yibou ubundiberstiband ibit?
In the French comic book Astrix they got very creative with their swear symbols. Pictures of flaming skulls, swords, etc. I still have a bunch of those somewhere. In English. I was always impressed how well the jokes translated to English.
I have a friend who can shoot just about this good.
I have a friend who can shoot just about this good.
Of course, grawlixes should never be confused with 1337 5p34k.
Sally Kellerman was born June 2, 1936. She played Hot Lips Houlihan in the movie M*A*S*H, which was much better than the television series, since Alan Alda didn’t appear in it, but Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, and Tom Skerritt did. She was also in Brewster McCloud, one of the strangest movies I’ve ever seen. Have a Nehi soda to celebrate.
Just read up on Brewster McCloud. Never saw it, but I recall hearing about it. If I watch it, it’ll be the 2nd Bud Cort film I’ve seen. He doesn’t end up in the sack with Ruth Gordon again, does he?
Ruth Gordon does not appear. Bud does end up in the sack. Brewster McCloud isn’t nearly as good as Harold and Maude. It’s just weird. Bud, by the way, is in the movie M*A*S*H, so there are three Bud Cort movies that I’ve seen.
P.S. Do you think that watching Harold and Maude should be a requirement for all Moon Nukers?
I totally missed him in M*A*S*H. I didn’t care for Harold & Maude. But that McCloud thing might be just the right amount of weird for me.
In M*A*S*H, Robert Duvall, as Frank Burns, tells him to get a cardiac needle. Bud’s character rushes to bring back a needle, but it’s the wrong one (I have no idea what a cardiac needle is). Bud’s character goes off to get the right one, but Frank tells him, “It’s too late. You’ve killed him.” Shortly thereafter, Elliot Gould, as Trapper John, punches Frank.
Harold and Maude is one of my favorite movies. Bud Cort isn’t the only one who appears in both M*A*S*H and Harold and Maude; so does Tom Skerritt. He’s the Highway Patrolman on the motorcycle at the end of the old Dumbarton Bridge. He’s listed as M. Borman in the credits.
“What the grawlix?!” has just entered my lexicon of family-friendly cursing. (It’s all in vain – for years, my daughter thought “bleep” was an actual bad word, because I used it in bad-word-appropriate situations, such as getting cut off dangerously on the freeway. “Bleep! Bleep you, you stupid bleeper! Learn to drive, you bleeping bleeper who bleeps!” If they think it’s a cuss-word, it’s a cuss-word.)
I don’t know where tarnation comes from, but reintarnation is dying and coming back as a hillbilly!