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the f outta here well the origins of f are supposedly just this perhaps a myth but a reasonable one after years of a puritan king in england when he was gone and edward took over a new era of relaxed inhibitions and libertine social behavior took over see the libertine with johnny depp the king decreed that not only could women act on stage now but that he wanted everyone to have sex as often as possible hence fornicate under command of the king became shortened to simply f ironically it was considered much more polite a word in society than intercourse which was the f word of its day this has to be british over there the word fanny refers to a woman s front side and not the derriere and is considered a very impolite word f has generally become one of those words like run that has so many uses that is serves for nearly every purpose f in a to that someone emailed me the basis of this list yrs ago then someone recently as well so i m sure this list has been circulating for decades by now i merely added some more and here it is comment with even more you re so f ing smart 1 surprise what the f are you doing here 2 fraud i got f ed by the car dealer 3 resignation oh f it 4 trouble i guess i m f ed now 5 aggression f you 6 disgust f me 7 confusion what the f 8 difficulty i don t understand this f ing business 9 despair f ed again 10 pleasure i couldn t be f ing happier 11 displeasure what the f is going on here 12 lost where the f are we 13 disbelief un f ing believable 14 retaliation up your f ing ass 15 denial i didn t f ing do it 16 perplexity i don t know f about it 17 apathy who really gives a f anyway 18 greetings how the f are ya 19 suspicion who the f are you and what the f are you doing here 20 panic let s get the f out of here 21 directions f off 22 awe how the f did you do that 23 paranoia who the f are you looking at 24 doom we re in some deep f ing shit now 25 monarchistic doom we re royally f ed now 26 agnosticism f god 27 bravado yeah you wanna f with me 28 disgust now that s just f ing sick 29 rage i m gonna f you up real good 30 inebriation man he was totally f ed up 31 intelligent retort yeah well f you too 32 greatness man that was some f ing concert posted by josé sinclair at 5 24 pm 4 comments labels euphemisms f funny words the f post tuesday september 29 2009 crazy for synonyms for insane for some reason there are far more words for the insane than we probably need they say eskimos have 26 words for snow we have more than that for the psychotic they have different kinds of snow we have different kinds of psychos some dangerous some fun some eccentric euphemisms like not playing with a full deck follow the synonyms a aberrant abnormal b bent berserk bonkers bananas batty c crazy cracked certifiable cuckoo d daffy demented deranged disturbed delirious demonic e eccentric extreme f flaky fanatical freudian flipped g goofy gone ga ga h hysterical haywire i insane j janus juiced k kooky l looney lunatic loco m mad mental maniacal multiple personality n nuts o odd off p psychotic peculiar perverted possessed q quixotic quirky quack r remedial s screwy schizo split t tilted troubled u unbalanced unhinged unintelligible v void w wacky withdrawn x xenophobic ok so i m stretching y yahoo ya ya z zany there s also the fun crazies who are madcap frivolous ditzy saucy topsy turvy wild and from above wacky and zany these are harmless crazies you d like to hang out with people who are bonkers can be these nouns card pistol loon cuckoo nutcase case study crackers bananas bats fruitcake they can be doing other things out to lunch waiting for the wagon men in white coats zoning out losing their marbles flying high marching to a different drummer coming from left field going solo even talking to god normal for some but don t tell the shrink or you may be certifiable euphemisms there s been a lengthy list of mental euphemisms circulating on the net since the 80 s called full deck isms someone didn t know the word euphemism of the thousand or so entries these are the more humorous entries he s a few fries short of a happy meal he couldn t pour water out of a boot with the instructions on the heel he doesn t just know nothing he doesn t even suspect anything he has a one way ticket on the disoriented express he fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down he s so dense that light bends around him quantum physics joke i d like to buy him for what s he s worth and sell him for what he thinks he s worth if he gets any denser the geocentric theory of the universe will come true if what you don t know can t hurt you he s practically invulnerable if you stand close enough to him you can hear the ocean he is living proof that nature does not abhor a vacuum he is proof that evolution actually can go in reverse if he raced fifty yards with a pregnant woman he d come in third he s so thick that mind readers charge him half price she suffers from clue deficit disorder the twinkle in his eyes is actually the sun shining through his ears he s unclear which of newton s three laws keeps his ears apart he s as useful as an ashtray on a motorcycle here are some new ones that i ve added from anthony weller s book the siege of salt cove his boots are not laced all the way to the top from jazz blues singer mose allison his mind is on vacation and his mouth is working overtime from jackie gleason as ralph kramden all in my head well you can look up there all you want and you know what you ll find nothing _____________ c 2009 william l sinclair ____________ posted by josé sinclair at 8 54 pm 1 comment labels crazy euphemisms insane synonyms monday september 28 2009 word origins you never knew it s pandemonium in bedlam adam s apple a bit of the forbidden apple that stuck in adam s throat there s no mythological explanation why eve doesn t also share this piece of the fruit bedlam in 1402 st mary of bethlehem in london became a lockup for the insane cockneys corrupted bethlehem into bedlam which came to mean any madhouse or scene of utter confusion tom and or bess o bedlam are wandering lunatics berserk named for an 8th century norse hero who wore bearskins berserk that he wore into battle which he supposedly fought with reckless fury his sons were known as berserkers a name later used for a class or warriors and much later a science fiction series from the 1960 s means to go into a frenzy or rage bevinism a mixed or confused metaphor from ernest bevin british cabinet minister after the war who said if you open pandora s box you ll find it full of trojan horses led to golwynism after movie mogul samuel goldwyn said an oral contract is not worth the paper its printed on booze a col e g booze sold whiskey in log cabin shaped bottles became popular during tyler s presidential campaign has become a name for cheap hard liquor boycott named for capt charles boycott a land agent in ireland who refused to lower rents after a disastrous harvest and attempted to evict tenants his servants departed and no one would sell him food he gave up and returned to england and his name means to abstain in dealings with in an effort to coerce or intimidate chauvinism for nicholas chauvin soldier of the 1st rep of france famous for patriotism and adoration of napolean his name was used in a popular play and became a byword but for bigotry and prejudice comic comical and coma from comus roman god of festive mirth the god was often found in a drunken stupor giving us also the word coma criss cross short for christ on the cross when you made your mark it wasn t an x but a criss cross or you were swearing to christ that this was your mark curfew from the french covre feu or cover fire the time when lights were to be put out after ringing of the evening bell brought to england after the norman conquest denim named because it was imported from de nimes in france a manufacturing center before the french revolution fiddle de dee from italian fedidio fe di dio by the faith of god has come to mean nonsense a dismissal of what the other person has to say dollar a coin minted from a rich silver mine near prague was called a joachimsthaler then a thaler which became dollar in english means from the valley expedite from saint expeditus advocate of urgent causes supposedly a roman soldier martyred in armenia in the 4th century fantasy roman god of sleep somnus also called hypnos had an assistant was called phantasus who tricked people into sleep with hallucinatons or fantasies ferris wheel a giant wheel with passengers built for the chicago exposition of 1893 by a tinkerer from galesburg illinois named g w gale ferris frank now means candor from the franks named for their weapon frankon or spear originally nobles meant free men hence frank became synonymous with free noblemen gaga mentally unbalanced from paintings of paul gauguin who some saw as evidence of an unbalanced mind in french it means foolish old man gerrymander is to unfairly redivide a district to give someone an unfair advantage in an election from eldridge gerry when governor of massachusetts redivided the state s districts an opponent said it looked like a salamander and anti gerry news editor benjamin russell said make it a gerrymander and the name stuck g i us military soldiers first called government issue joes then g i joes then finally just g i s goodbye originally a contraction of god be with ye googol now commonly spelled google this was actually invented in 1940 by a 9 yr old nephew of a mathmatics professor dr kasner to describe a huge number 10 to the hundredth power first thought to have come from sounds goo being a messy substance enjoyed by kids later thought to have come from the comic character barney google gossamer from the british goose summer the time in fall to eat the fatted goose a k a indian summer spider webs during this time are said to glisten with dew so it now applies to thin or translucent material gun originally for cannon later small arms both gunn and hilda mean war in norwegian likely from female name gunnhilda in 1431 a war inventory list for windsor castle lists a missile thrower named lady gunnhilda hocus pocus from the latin chant hoc est corpus domini from communion mass it now means nonsense and is a takeoff on the religious phrase a playground variation is hocus pocus dominocus from these come hoax ruse or practical joke and hokum fakery and hokey pokey a kid s song and dance that s what it s all about hoodlum likely a cockneyed back spelling of muldoon noodlum became hoodlum this was a common cockney practice police became ecilop then slop january saturn ruled italy with janus the two faced god of beginnings looking both forward and backward also led to janitor lush as related to drinking a reference to the drinking club the city of lushington formed in 1750 for hard drinkers also irish slang for to eat and drink mafia this is a reversal a capitalized word from a common noun the arabic mahyah for boasting came to mean lawlessness in sicilian later used by the underground terrorist organization now a worldwide crime cartel maverick usually means unbranded animal particularly a calf from samuel maverick a 19th century texas banker who had to take a herd of cattle as payment but had no land he leased an island in the nuecces river but in winter or at low water the unbranded cattle would wander onto neighboring ranchland causing the remark there goes another maverick money from juno moneta the roman goddess juno when presiding over the roman temple where coins were minted moneta became the name for the coinage then a synonym for money moneta s temple became mint monkey wrench type of wrench invented in 1856 by a yankee named monk employed by bemis and call in springfield massachusetts nightmare mara was a scandanavian demon that inspired fear horror and distress opportune portunus was the roman god that protected harbors portus ob means before and opportune means seasonable or timely opportunity is a time or place favorable for a purpose pandemonium in milton s paradise lost it s the capital of hell and site of satan s palace from greek pan all and daimon demon now means wild uproar infernal noise or wildly lawless or riotous place panic is from the god pan god of nature and wilderness also god of pastures and animals the name means everywhere a god being everywhere sends men into a panic pell mell meaning reckless confusion or headlong named for pall mall the london center of clubs in the 16th century the game was similar to croquet but the players all rushed heedlessly to strike the ball leading to the expression podunk the name of a small algonquin tribe on the podunk river in connecticut now means small town posh originally p o s h a steamer ticket abbreviation meaning port out starboard home for the english passengers on ships to india who wished to be opposite the sun in each direction during the trip romance means made in the roman manner or romanesque rome also gave its name to romaine lettuce and the french romier pilgrim to rome led to roam in slang rome means anything large or great sandwich named for the corrupt 4th earl of sandwich john montagu 1718 1792 two or more slices of bread enclosing a thin layer of meat or cheese john consumed these while gambling without having to stop playing he copied the habit from the romans silhouette for étienne de silhouette 1709 1767 controller general of france taxed people so heavily he had to resign his hobby became cutting portrait profiles out of black paper taken as symbols of his stinginess they were given his name sophomore sophisticated the sophists 5th cen b c derived their name from the greek for skilled or clever first to offer systematic education later disparaged for oversubtle self serving reasoning sophomore means wise fool and sophie means wise woman sorcerer sors was the greek god of change french was sorcier which became sorcerer in english meaning magician or wizard sort also came from sors teddy bear plush child s toy in the shape of a bear named for president teddy roosevelt likely for his penchant for hunting said to have been named just after he refused to shoot a baby bear tontine a form of annuity in which shares from each deceased member are added to the groups until the last survivor inherits them all devised by a neapolitan banker named lorenzo tonti ukulele hawaiin for little flea the nickname of its inventor edward putvis a british officer who played the instrument rapidly like little fleas dancing on the strings upside down a state of disorder formerly upsedown also topsy turvy from the time of queen elizabeth no one knows the origins valentine supposedly from saint valentine there are three on record sometimes your name gets you in legend has it he made secret gifts to the poor not to fantasy loves it s likely just coincidence that the saint s day falls in early spring as well as the lover s festival posted by josé sinclair at 10 53 pm 5 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