![]() ![]() ![]() "Pound Sign #?* !" as sung by Kevin Fowler is an example of this.From the Brass Eye pedophile special, with increasingly bizarre made-up euphemisms:.no longer in possessions of one's faculties. ![]() ![]() Stargate SG-1: Jack O'Neill in "Window of Opportunity" saying, "Lose it.Life On Mars also features Gene Hunt (who's not gay and is more like homophobic) doing a shorter, more offensive list of gay euphemisms.Gilmore (who was gay) in his first episode reeling off a long list of euphemisms for "gay". He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky." The beginning of Cleese's eulogy for Chapman: "Graham Chapman, co-author of the 'Parrot Sketch', is no more.Terry and Michael were incredibly surprised when the group decided it was still funny enough to be filmed. The above sketch was written by Terry Jones and Michael Palin as a parody of the Cleese/Chapman.A board comes down with a list of all the words he's saying, and the audience reads them off at the same time while Graham (also in drag) points to them. This was later lampshaded by Eric and Graham, when, during one sketch where Eric (in drag) is naming off different ways to say "predict". John Cleese and Graham Chapman would often write sketches together, using a thesaurus to come up with many ways of saying the same thing. Many other sketches had similar lines.The page quote is from the legendary Dead Parrot sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus.At one point he brings up the director's aversion to using breast implants in his films. In The Dresden Files book Blood Rites, Harry and Murphy are discussing a porn director that Harry is working a case for.(This summarises three pages of hysterically funny dialogue on pp 172–175 of the paperback edition). Spells "prick!" The root of the patient's anxiety is fear she is going to be raped when the blacks eventually rise in rebellion against apartheid combined with sexual repression. Unable even to say the word penis, the patient resorts to euphemism as the (not) good doctor pretends ignorance: They've got such big ones. In Tom Sharpe's black satire of life in apartheid South Africa, Indecent Exposure, the Nazi-inclined psychiatrist Dr von Blimenstein has to deal with a hysterical and sexually repressed Afrikaaner woman who is suffering from that common phobia, Blackcock Fever.The humor book A Guy's Guide to Dating has five full pages of euphemisms for A Date with Rosie Palms, from "adjusting the set" to "yanking the yo-yo," and including such gems as " dating Rosie Palm and her five sisters," "being your own best friend," "sheathin' the heathen," and many others.In the thirteenth Valhalla album, when Loki upon finding himself in the underworld tries to ask Hel if he's really dead or not, he uses every every possible euphemism for "death," only to have her completely misunderstand them all, until he breaks down and screams the real word.In The Savage Dragon, when Super Tough, after years of being Trapped in Another World, reunites with his former sidekick Mace AKA Young Tough, they greet each other with a passionate kiss, prompting Noble Bigot with a Badge Howard Niseman to spend the whole rest of the scene in the background muttering euphemisms for "gay".or would, if that "Barry Ween" chip didn't translate all his swearwords into non-offensive terms, and actual hurricanes into excerpts from show tunes. Zodon from PS238 does this a fair bit.All of Haddock's curses can be found here, in alphabetical order.Then it became a definite quirk of the personage. This was originally to please the Moral Guardians, as Hergé couldn't have his character using foul language in a comic read by children.Captain Haddock of Tintin loves to hurl hurricanes of obscure euphemisms at his enemies.The real beauty of that is that the usual onomatopoeia for "chirp chirp" in Japanese is "chin-chin", which doubles as a childish way to say "penis". ![]()
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