Ahhh, a meaningless topic. Good popcorn for the evo soul!!
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My wife and I once lead a high-school age church youth group. We challenged them to come up with more imaginative curses and oaths than the standard four letter word variety.
"May a thousand fleas infest your armpits."
(*wiggle your fingers rapidly*)
"What's that?"
"It's a hundred of these" (*extend middle fingers of both hands*)
For us secular beer drinkers, such insults will only make people laugh at you. Curses that take too much thinking end up making you look like a British Royal at a cockfight. The beauty of the f-bomb is that it can be used as a noun, verb, adjective, and an adverb. Or, all by itself to exclaim your extreme dissatisfaction. What other 4 letter, one syllable words can convey so much emotion? None that I have run into. Try losing 10 bucks on a game of 8-ball and telling your opponent to "roll around in piles of his canine's excrement" and prepare to be ridiculed. It is better, and correct I might add, to yell out "You MF, no way can you beat me two games in a row" in order to have a chance to win your money back. Of course, your youth group probably doesn't play money games before or after meetings, so just file this under information you will never use.
(to everyone) As to why God is taken out of goddamn is simple. By inserting God you are taking the lords name in vain, while damn by itself is not taking the Lord's name in vain directly, just some diety in general. That's the way I understand it anyway.
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