Late Night Bowling With Daddy

[Shalom]

One day, when my son was about 3 or so, he got mad at me and called me a "stupid asshole." After I picked my jaw up off the floor, I told him that we don't say that. He informed me, "You say it in the car!"

I remember one comic, possibly the Family Circus, in which the kid was sitting on the floor playing with a toy car which at the moment is upside down.

Kid: "&^%$&#@ !!"

Horrified adult: "Do you know what that means?"

Kid: "My daddy says it means the car won't start."



Yeah, as the parent of a 3-year-old myself I've gotta start watching what I say around him, as he's starting to repeat new words after only one hearing. Last thing I need is to let slip something that I shouldn't, then hear him gleefully repeat it all day. Someone on Usenet came up with "BLORNFRAZZLE!" a long time ago, and I've used that myself on occasion.

[Mamadrae]

Yeah, as the parent of a 3-year-old myself I've gotta start watching what I say around him, as he's starting to repeat new words after only one hearing. Last thing I need is to let slip something that I shouldn't, then hear him gleefully repeat it all day. Someone on Usenet came up with "BLORNFRAZZLE!" a long time ago, and I've used that myself on occasion.

Yeah mine are all warped swears. Things like "Son of a submariner!" which btw I shall give a cookie to whoever knows where that's from. Son of a monkey mother is another favorite of mine. Then you have shinit, frackin, and just me going "EVIL!" instead of using the choice words.

Then of course I get away from the kiddo and I start swearing like the trucker my dad is. Always amusing to me.

[Andrew B.]

"Son of a submariner!"

Kefka's insult to Edgar after he sinks Figaro Castle in the sand in FF VI. A great game with a wonderful story.

[Imogene]

Kefka's insult to Edgar after he sinks Figaro Castle in the sand in FF VI.

All because the translation team didn't want to translate it directly... I want to say that's been fixed in the newer versions of FF VI...

[elsporko]

I played a fan translation that was suppose to be truer to the Japanese version. Kefka ended up being alot blander because instead of saying funny or interesting things he just swore alot.

[CaroPhoenix]

I have to watch what I say especially since Child Rum yelled out the b word that rhymes with witch 4 times in a row @ my mother's house!

Yeah, that was fun.

As for my music? I still listen to it. I don't censor it. I mean, my daughter has been listening to Marilyn Manson since the time I first brought her home from the hospital. And at age 4 months, when she decided naps weren't for her, I would play my Marilyn Manson CDs and usually by the beginning of the 2nd song, she was out like a light. (It either put her to sleep, bored her to sleep, or she figured if she fell asleep, she wouldn't have to listen to him anymore. )

[AnaKhouri]

I read that what you listen to while you're pregnant, will be soothing to your baby later.

I listened to a lot of Iron Maiden, just because I thought it would be funny if Iron Maiden konked Khan out.

But he won't sleep for anything during the day. WHY DOES BABY HATE SLEEP??

[dalesys]

...But he won't sleep for anything during the day. WHY DOES BABY HATE SLEEP??

Needs knockout drops... like my mother used... Don't worry, I'm all right now

[Shalom]

Yeah mine are all warped swears. Things like "Son of a submariner!" which btw I shall give a cookie to whoever knows where that's from. Son of a monkey mother is another favorite of mine. Then you have shinit, frackin, and just me going "EVIL!" instead of using the choice words.

My locksmith instructor, who was an electrician in the USAF, so you know he knows all the words, once banged his thumb in the course of a demonstration and hollered "Ow! You son of a mother." Whole class cracks up, and he says "No, it's very important not to swear in front of the customer. Even if you hit your thumb or something. You say 'Excuse me, I've got to go out to the truck to get some tools.' Then you shut the door and say 'You rotten razzle frasxt rargle!' " [like Dick Dastardly used to cuss, I don't remember the exact phonemes he used] "and then come back out like nothing happened. I once was taking the steering wheel off a Mazda, and didn't have the right screws for the puller, so I just took the nut off and yanked, and the damn thing came straight off and hit me right across the bridge of my nose. Customer says 'Oh, did you hurt yourself?' and I said," [holding his nose] "'Doe, I didd't hurt byself'... I couldn't take my glasses off for three days, but I wasn't going to admit that in front of the customer."

Cosby had something about this. I'll have to go through a stack of vinyl when I get home and see if I can remember where it came from.

[Kogarashi]

I read that what you listen to while you're pregnant, will be soothing to your baby later.

I listened to a lot of Iron Maiden, just because I thought it would be funny if Iron Maiden konked Khan out.

But he won't sleep for anything during the day. WHY DOES BABY HATE SLEEP??

Baby #1 I could nurse to sleep no problem, and she'd be out for a good 2-3 hours straight at naptime. Until she switched to one nap, when her two naps never got longer than half an hour. We fixed that by giving her only one nap a day and it was almost four hours long each time.

Baby #2, on the other hand, took after her Daddy a lot. We didn't sleep-train #1 until 5 or 6 months (and she didn't get the hang of it until at least 8, 13 for napping). #2, though, just would not go to sleep with all the rocking and nursing. So we did sleep-training at 2 months. By 4, she was a little pro at falling asleep on her own, thank goodness. Maybe that'll work?

[Jay 2K Winger]

Cosby had something about this. I'll have to go through a stack of vinyl when I get home and see if I can remember where it came from.

Knowing him, it was probably something like "filth flarn flackin' flarn filth flack" etc.

[Andara Bledin]

Ah, yes the creative non-expletive epithets for use around kids.

There's always Venkman's line of "mother pusbucket" in Ghostbusters.

Or you can go with foreign phrases. There's a Finn phrase (that I have no idea how to spell or say correctly) that translates to "shit pants," and sounds something vaguely like "puskahosel." Archaic or obscure words can be fun, too, such as "fewmets!"

And, of course, there's always the modfied words and phrases in pop culture. Heck, here's a site that's collected a list of them:
http://www.economicexpert.com/a/List...urse:words.htm

^-.-^

[Mamadrae]

As for my music? I still listen to it. I don't censor it. I mean, my daughter has been listening to Marilyn Manson since the time I first brought her home from the hospital. And at age 4 months, when she decided naps weren't for her, I would play my Marilyn Manson CDs and usually by the beginning of the 2nd song, she was out like a light. (It either put her to sleep, bored her to sleep, or she figured if she fell asleep, she wouldn't have to listen to him anymore. )

I only edit for swearing and once in awhile for content (my son is not going to sing along about shooting people in the hood no matter how much my bro-in-law wants it). Manson actually has a fair number of songs that lack swearing or only have 1 or 2 words (which I can get away with). It's rather funny listening to my 3 year old try to sing along with Sweet Dreams, Tainted Love, or Beautiful People.

Most recently I had Powerman 5000 playing When Worlds Collide and he was trying to sing along with it. Kid's got some serious lungs on him, and he likes songs that are loud I noticed. He's almost got Within Temptation's What Have You Done down pat. Can't wait for him to go singing that in preschool.

[Chromatix]

There's a Finn phrase (that I have no idea how to spell or say correctly) that translates to "shit pants," and sounds something vaguely like "puskahosel."

A little work with Google Translate gives me "paskahousut", which seems plausible enough. As a variant, "shitty" translates to "paskamainen". They are not hard to pronounce - all the a's are an ah-sound, all the vowels are enunciated, and the accent is always on the first syllable.

Slightly harder to say properly is "perkele", which is a milder word meaning roughly "bloody hell". It is only really hard to say if you have trouble rolling your R's. Don't forget to enunciate those E's, as Finnish does not have the "neutral vowel" sound.

[Magpie]

Can't wait for him to go singing that in preschool.

There's a group here that does RenFaires, and they describe themselves as singing "songs bawdy and beautiful". Before starting one song (ostensibly about poultry), two of the women had a discussion about how it was the cause of many letters home from preschool.