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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!

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Box 4410, Naperville, Illinois 60567-4410 (630) 961-3900 Fax: (630) 961-2168 www.sourcebooks.com Originally published in 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Berdoll, Linda Very Nice Ways to Say Very Bad Things / Linda Berdoll p. cm. ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-0885-0 ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-2983-1 ISBN-10: 1-4022-0885-5 ISBN-10: 1-4022-2983-6 1. English languageEuphemism. 2.

English languageJargon. 3. English languageTerms and phrases. I. Title. PE1449.B4435 2007 427dc22 2006100787 Printed and bound in the United States of America.

WC 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 00FMqxd 71307 430 PM Page v Contents Aspersions brickbats carping cavil - photo 13 00FM.qxd 7/13/07 4:30 PM Page v Contents Aspersions, brickbats, carping, cavil, censure, denunciation, disparagement, reproach, opprobrium, reproof, stricture, vitriol, epithets, and vituperation 1v Censuring the Inherent Fool: The Lost Art Shakespeare, Addressing Individual Mounds of Foul, Undigested Lumps of Donkey Entrails Sacre Bleu: Profanities and Expletives Oaths and General Vituperation Silent Disparagement (The Bird and His Friends) 00FMqxd 71307 430 PM Page vi Circumlocution 33 Worshipping at the Shrine of - photo 14 00FM.qxd 7/13/07 4:30 PM Page vi Circumlocution 33 Worshipping at the Shrine of Bacchus Fits, disease, ill health, infirmity, breakdowns, affliction, ailment, attacks, bugs, collapse, complaint, confinement, convalescence, disability, disorder, disturbance, dose, failing health, flu, indisposition, malady, malaise, prostration, seizure, syndrome, v a bit of unwell, and whats been going around 53 Indisposition Going to Europe with Ralphand Earl in a Buick In the Privy Afflicted by Times Wingd Chariot 00FMqxd 71307 430 PM Page vii Gender specific activity femininity - photo 1500FMqxd 71307 430 PM Page vii Gender specific activity femininity - photo 16 00FM.qxd 7/13/07 4:30 PM Page vii Gender specific activity, femininity, manhood, manliness, masculinity, sexuality, womanhood, womanliness, intercourse between animate beings, coition, coitus, copulation, fornication, generation, intimacy, lovemaking, magnetism, procreation, relations, reproduction, sensuality, sexuality 73v Bewitched, Bothered and Betwattled The Long Carbine Dallying, Firkytoodling and Finkdiddling Sex Sain et Sauf Men Behaving Badly 00FMqxd 71307 430 PM Page viii A Pea in the Pod Misbegotten Unknown to Man - photo 1700FMqxd 71307 430 PM Page viii A Pea in the Pod Misbegotten Unknown to Man - photo 18 00FM.qxd 7/13/07 4:30 PM Page viii A Pea in the Pod Misbegotten Unknown to Man Trafficking with Oneself Daft, mentally strange, barmy, unzipped, batty, berserk, insane, bonkers, cracked, loony, crazed, cuckoo, demented, deranged, peculiar, erratic, flaky, fruity, idiotic, insane, lunatic, mad, maniacal, nuts, potty, psycho, touched, v unbalanced, unglued, unhinged, wacky The Gazelles are in the Garden N What? Acknowledgements 1-19.qxd 7/13/07 4:32 PM Page 1 spersions, brickbats, carping, cavil, censure, denunciation, disparagement, reproach, opprobrium, reproof, stricture, vitriol, epithets, and vituperation 1-19qxd 71307 432 PM Page 2 You clod of puke-stocking roastmeat for worms - photo 19 1-19.qxd 7/13/07 4:32 PM Page 2 You clod of puke-stocking, roastmeat for worms! Zounds, I have been bethumped by words.Shakespeare 1-19.qxd 7/13/07 4:32 PM Page 3 Censuring the Inherent Fool: The Lost Art Few would argue that some behavior is so abhorrent, it demands redressing. Regardless of justificationidiot drivers, impudent clerks, adolescents who have been spawn by the devilwe as a society simply cannot con-done smacking the offender upside the head. (Admittedly, we institute this decision partly in deference to decorum, but also in 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. That acknowledged, it is miserably apparent that standards about what is said or heard in public have become remarkably lax. What comes out of the mouths of babes nowadays would have once made a fishwife blush. Not that we deplore vehement notification of character flaws, but 3 1-19qxd 71307 432 PM Page 4 chucking stock profanities about does not - photo 20

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