Your Favorite Fake Sci-Fi Profanity

[Fajitas]

Hmmm. Well, so far I count 11 write-in votes for smeg (12 if I count the person who said they *would* have voted for it had it been there, but instead voted for something else), and it's unclear how many non-posting voters might have gone for it. A definite contender. It completely escaped my mind when I wrote up the poll. More's the pity.

I think it'd still be losing to Frell, tho'. Hard to say where it would stand compared to Frak, Belgium, and Nerf-herder.

 

[Stone Angel]

I wish Frag was on there too.


The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[Scarbonac]

"Lords of Light!"

"Demon-Dogs!"

I like it when Amy Wang from Futurama starts cussing in whatever phony asian language she speaks.

Hot cartoon chicks with dirty mouths. Friggin Awesome!

Well, SPLUH! Amy Wong (Not "Wang" -- tsk, such a dirty mind! ) is the kewtest li'l ole Martian gal with a nasty talk-hole that there is!

Smeg is a real word and really gross too.

"Smegma", as has been noted, is the word you're thinkin' of; IIRC, the producers/writers of Red Dwarf came up with "smeg" because it sounds nasty but actually doesn't mean anything in particular.

 

[broghammerj]

Joshua Dyal

It is? You sure you aren't thinking of smegma? I'm not saying you're wrong, but I don't know that word, and can't find it in my dictionary either.

You would be correct sir!

Mystery Man:

Yeah I figure smeg is short for smegma. Bleh...Reminds of a radio call in show talking about the worst jobs people ever had. One guy called in and told about one of his jobs at the horse track was cleaning smegma off of geldings. *hork*

Well as a urologist I could comment on your commnetary, but instead I chose to just chuckle to myself and shake my head. By the way I'll throw in my vote for Drek from Shadowrun.

 

[Mark]

By the way I'll throw in my vote for Drek from Shadowrun.

Drek (Drec, Dreck) is not a fake sci-fi word, nor originally from Shadowrun, but rather a Yiddish word (from the German Drec) for "filth" or "dung" commonly used in modern times (Dreck) as "crap(py stuff)" or worse.

 

[stevelabny]

Firefly is great.
Frag is fun.

but the winners are sprock, grife and nass.

and once again the comic book industry can kiss my rear for dropping one more piece of identifiable dialogue from modern comics.

 

[spyscribe]

Having spent far too much time thinking about this question, I think the genius of "frell" is that it is 1) easy to say, 2) obviously an expletive without actually being inappropriate for public use and 3) those not in the know either assume they misheard you saying "hell" or figure you made a quick save from saying a more well-known word that begins with f. That last is, I feel, an important characteristic in a stealth swear, which loses some of its utility if its inherent strangeness calls attention to itself.

Gets my vote hands-down.

 

[jshelky]

Ee Chuta


"How rude"

 

[Tonguez]

"Rimmer, you are a smeg-head."

I'm voting for smeg.

Personally I vote for Rimmer

oh and Shag as in the often quoted "Scooby Shag Daphne" MWAHAHAHA

but if those are disallowed then Smeg you all

and 2000AD also had the word Funt - which I always thought was really pushing things!

 

[Tonguez]

Oh and I had almost forgotten Shazbot (used that extensively as a kid at school!)

and one of the best is

"You farging, corksocking, somanumbatchin' ice-hole!" from ?