Wednesday, September 07, 2005

AMG's Words That Sound (And Should Be) Dirty, But Aren't.

uvula
moist
Volvo
masticate
dinghy
penal
wad
cunning
titter
Uranus*
kumquat
organism**
ramrod
shuttlecock
banal


*Of course.

**Remember laughing about this in high school, and how there was always that one kid who accidentally mispronounced it and died of embarrassment, and there was also always that one kid who purposely mispronounced it for laughs despite the faked wrath of the teacher as she herself was trying not to laugh ?

19 comments:

Blake said...

My girlfriend and her friends hate the word "moist". So I say it as much as I can.

Blake

MJL said...

"Say Car Ramrod! Say Car Ramrod!"

Zeppelinlady said...

I remember having to page someone over an intercom with the last name Dumas.(pronunced doomus)
Of course I said it too fast. Needless to say, he didn't like being called Dumb ass.

exile said...

you left out titmouse

David Stehle said...

"and there was also always that one kid who purposely mispronounced it for laughs despite the faked wrath of the teacher as she herself was trying not to laugh ?"

Lol, that kid was me. I guess I enjoyed being the class clown. I still chuckle over stuff like that. I guess boys never do growup.

Osbasso said...

J.S. Bach's favorite type of composition--the "fugue".

Or that parsely-like spice known as "cumin".

Chixulub said...

Don't forget what Chuck would term 'euphemisms that just aren't.'

Ramming, slamming, pumping, nailing, jacking, or gusshing (two ss's in Lobster Land). These are things tha could mean reconstruction of New Orleans, or demands placed on a girl from an escort service...

Blonde said...

I love the word *moist*.

No HNT?

ALRO said...

More dirty words.

emancipation (never did that when i was young!)

dipstick: *raises hand* Have one!
tierod.
balljoint

one of my favorite phrases - that we all know:

Cunning array of stunts.
goop. (you can buy it at your local hardware store now just like "Crack Sealer")

Oh there are so many.

Anonymous said...

yea.. i hate the word moist. call it wet. it's not moist. gross.

ThatIsMeWhat said...

Don't forget matriculate!

Grafs

Ritmeyer said...

I had an old Volvo in highschool and we all called it the vulva. I miss that car.

Me! said...

I can't stand the word 'moist' either. I guess I'm not crazy after all.

jamwall said...

i can remember being in biology class in 10th grade, we were looking at little tiny critters swimming in pond water through the telescope.

the kid next to me was looking in his telescope, when he jumped up and exclaimed "hey! we found an orgasm!!!!....we got an orgasm over here!!!!"

the teacher had to explain the difference between an organism and an orgasm to everyone...

Lara said...

NamesAreHardToPick - Haha, "premature evactuation" sounds like pooping before you're ready.

PoshPaws said...

I had a 10th grade 'orgasm' thingy too... only it wasn't a KID in my class, it was the TEACHER!!!! And a guy at that. And he never did realize he was saying it. But several of us nearly peed our pants and one guy fell his chair over backwards! Coach couldn't figure out for the life of him what was so funny... and what made it even funnier was he was talking about "micro-orgasms"! LOL!

And I'm with you, Jamwall... I think we need a little more COWBELL!!!!

jamwall said...

i suppose this teacher would confide in his doctor that he's having trouble giving his wife organisms?

yeah! more cowbell!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

These words, you're so right, they just sound dirrty even though they shouldn't.

Except, well, banal. I suppose it LOOKS dirty but it's pronounced "baa-nal", not "b-anal".

Am I being petty?

*

Jess said...

i just thought of one days later... conch WTF? who made of that word?