swearing

I resent my mom for laughing at me when I asked, after a visit to the department store, "Why do men swear?"...of course it was the menswear dept.

R. Owen

I had a friend who thought Shumk was the most horrible swear in the world. Whenever i used it she would yell at me and hit me.

what a shmuk

t

My mom was an obstetrician, and I got into her books on labour and birth, so I figured I knew what's what. So a kid on the playground asked me a question about sex, and it started "When a man fucks a woman..."

I didn't have the faintest idea what he meant or how it was relevant to babies; at that point, I thought "to fuck" meant "to beat up"... because you tell someone "fuck you," right?

Matt

When i was very little, i thought God Damn was a name. My great grandma had been talking to my father and she said, "god damn!" and i heard her and said, "that not god damn, thats my daddy!"

libby

When I was a little kid, I wasn't sure if the middle finger or the pinkie finger was the bad one. I think it came after I went out for tea at the ritz and put my pinkie finger up. I must have forgotten which was which! After that point, I was scared to put either finger in the upright position, or risk being a very bad person! (so i thought)

Caroline

I used to believe that bastard was just like darn because everybody would yell " You Bastard!" and they would be irritated with them. I was mortified when I found out what it really meant.

Anonymous

i use to think sucker was a bad word because i called my bro that once and he told on me and i got in trouble

Suckor

When I was about 3 or so, my dad would take me to the park, where they had this donkey on a large spring that you would sit on and rock back and forth to pretend like you were riding it. He got tired of me riding it all the time and once he said to my Aunt "She's gonna go ride the damn donkey again." Some time later, I don't remember if it was to them or to someone else, I said "I was riding the damn donkey!"

Darci

I thought 'stupid' was a swear word up until I was in 2nd grade.

Smurfette

Once, when I was little, I watched this g rated movie (it was animated) and the person on the phone said the word 'crook'. From then on, I thought 'crook' was a swearword.

M

I used to think that "cops" was a bad word because my mom wouldn't let me say it. She would get really mad when I did

Anonymous

I used to think that the worst thing you could ever say was "fudge buckets", because thats what my mom said when she was really angry instead of swearing in front of us.

gabrielle

I used to call fish sticks 'fish dicks.' (It really sounds like that!) Of course I didn't know what a dick was, but I knew it made all the adults laugh every time I said it, so I just kept saying it over and over intentionally to get them roaring.

Heather C

I used to think that fart was a bad word and then i heard my mom say it once and I was so shocked.

Tara

I use to think that slow-poke was a bad word because my mom always used and she seemed to be mad when she said it.

Brooke