mr4fingers

[www.urbandictionary.com]

Acelander

IllusionaryLunch

cde

jamesi-kins

AS in "What the Zark are you doing?" or" Zarking Photons!" "Hell's Donkey's!" and "Bat's Doo!"
are a couple other colorful ones as well,as that country,Belgium...

YA'LL NEEDA RE-EDIT YER LIST...

ya wankers!!!!!!

wolverbunny69

Kevin Kelly

AmishJohn

Randomeis

MarkPritchard

Defendant

In regards to swear words from cartoons, when I was a high school freshman, the boys in my science class though "Snarf!" (from Thundercats) was hilarious. It would get yelled a lot when experiments went bad.

Michael Bauser

There is a great passage in "May the Source be with You" episode, where Andy the robot, who has said prviosly "Cowards live longer." later says "Oh grot."

Quark: "Don't swear, Andy."

AMStar

Delenn: "Abso-fragging-lutely, dammit."

drmaybe

Never heard the Mellon Farmer version.

fatcat99

Good times!

Princess Sparkle Pony

anvalisok

wristo

The thing that bothers me about such oaths is the delivery of them by most actors. It's almost like they're embarrassed to say them. Sort of ruins the moment.

Also, yes there was bad acting and plot development issues in the Star Wars prequels, but if one looks at the first trilogy with a fair eye they're not much better. Just saw A New Hope last night and, man, the acting is bad, some of dialog is excruciating, and the plot leaves some things to be desired (and don't get me started on all that is wrong with Return of the Jedi).

ALL the films are light entertainment. For every Jar Jar there's an Ewok. For every Hayden Christiansen face cramp that passes for emotion there's a Mark Hamill whine about power converters, badly delivered (I cringe every time it comes). And Carrie Fisher wasn't winning any Oscars either, I think they must have told Hayden to emulate her acting style regarding emotion. The best of the whole lot was when Lucas loosened control (The Empire Strikes Back) and Han Solo in the first two. The second Trilogy didn't have such a comic rogue and lost something thereby. But they certainly couldn't wedge in a counterpart without appearing too formulaic.

Pretty much all the movies a long on loud and short on plot and character development. You watch them to put your mind on idle for a while and to be entertained. And they all succeed in doing that. The order from good to bad is thusly - V,III,IV,II,I,VI.

:)

toolkien

Darkedge

Kevin Kelly

enjikunoichi

"DOS" and "Gates" are the two most common expletives.

Example:
"Oh my Gates..."
"What the DOS is going on here?"

Gives a geek-girl like me a shiver, it does.

Photogal

Dillenger69

"Don't be a stupid barstool!"

Although the recent ECLIPSE gum commercial where the wife catches her husband cheating but the gum "cleans up another dirty mouth" is equally good:

"Pickle you, kumquat!"

Cacafuego

scfaulkner

Taed

Jamesema

"She did WHAT?!!??"

"She Lewiniski'd him 'til he Clintoned all over the cat."

Counterglow

Ben

cde

Marcus117

I loved watching Resident Evil 2 on TV, when the black pimp like dude said MFer, they translated it "Motivator".

Shai

I also thought the joke was that the subtitle/translation of "Bantha poodoo" was cleaned up to be "fodder", the way they don't translate a lot of the swear words in foreign films into the English subtitles. Or the silly "melon farmer"-type substitutions.

Evil Tortie's Mom

Yatta!

childofthemachine

Lucas can't take calls at the moment. He's busy filming the prequel to Howard the Duck.

diverguy

Any word where the entire meaning is based on intonation and non-verbal cues wins in my book.

(And the fact that all of you could translate my first sentence however you wanted - and 79% of those translations would be dirrrrty!)

And if you don't agree, you're all a bunch of smurfbags.

92BuickLeSabre

bluehairedangie

Kevin Kelly

CrispyShot

mumblingmynah

tetracycloide

Ed Grabianowski

It's not that hard to look stuff up is it?

Marcus117

yummie, delicious beets.

zenpoet

Its not sci-fi, but your post reminded me of it.

zenpoet

dangrgirl

Phrugus

AlfaCharger

kaosdevice

Dybbuk

I've taken to using HHGG's "Zarking fardwarks!"

And don't forget that Douglas Adams also gave us "turlingdrome" and "swut."

Everything2 has a pretty good list of scifi swear words if you've got some time to waste: [www.everything2.com]

Roy Jacobsen

Photons

Mathmos

SeeingI

AmishJohn

diverguy

Wookipedia, fwiw, states that "bantha fodder" smells terrible, and thus is appropriate for use as an expletive, though I concede that a) this is probably from non-canonical sources and b) not all fodder is bantha fodder and c) getting into a debate over what poodoo means is probably the low point in my life so d) i'll stop now.

zerofritz

mumblingmynah

tomun

braak

If we include steampunk: Taff! from the Thief video games. Usually used about people: "Hey, you taffer!" or "You taffin' liar!"

Lars

btgoss

Kevin Kelly

Mouser_UK

You forgot tanj: "There ain't no justice," from Ringworld. And there's some other Niven stories where people actually say "bleep" and "expletive deleted" as swear words. And in Stephenson's the Diamond Age people use "fubar," which is just great.

mumblingmynah

To a lesser extent from Hitchhiker's there was "Zarqing" which was derived from The Great Prophet Zarquon. So probably a nice bit of using a lord's name in vain.

Yoat

zerofritz

Kevin Kelly

ManchuCandidate

animagnum

My favorite has to be "Mickeyfickey" which is supposed to cover up the more dastardly MF word concerning maternal units.

Lotusmonger

Jabba says (in huttese) to Solo "You may have been a good smuggler, but now you're Bantha fodder," subtitled English 'fodder' substituted with the voiced-over 'poodoo'.

zerofritz

Now smeg off!!! (Yes, I love Red Dwarf.)

NefariousNewt