Shazbat

[nq:1]Is there a list of rude words invented for TV or films to avoid saying the real rude words? Have ... Smeg. Hmm. These are all from SF. Is this a phenomenon limited to SF? Do detectives not require alternative curses?[/nq]
Is /Mork and Mindy/ considered to be SF? Shazbat!
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[nq:2]Is there a list of rude words invented for TV ... phenomenon limited to SF? Do detectives not require alternative curses?[/nq]
[nq:1]Is /Mork and Mindy/ considered to be SF? Shazbat![/nq]
I originally added (or near SF) but took it out as unnecessary. Mork is an alien who drinks with his finger - it walks like SF and quacks like SF.

David
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[nq:1]Is there a list of rude words invented for TV or films to avoid saying the real rude words? Have ... Smeg. Hmm. These are all from SF. Is this a phenomenon limited to SF? Do detectives not require alternative curses?[/nq]
The Coneheads used a word that sounded something like "mibs", if memory serves, as a curse word.
But I don't agree with your premise. "Shazbat" wasn't intended to r

[nq:1]I can start with Shazbat, Frel, and Smeg.[/nq]
"Smeg" is not an invented rude word, it's a less-common word chosen because the media smegheads in London wouldn't realise it was rude. They probably thought it was a brand of kitchen appliances.

[nq:2]I can start with Shazbat, Frel, and Smeg.[/nq]
[nq:1]"Smeg" is not an invented rude word, it's a less-common word chosen because the media smegheads in London wouldn't realise it was rude. They probably thought it was a brand of kitchen appliances.[/nq]
Was it ever actually used as an expletive before Red Dwarf . Come to think of it, was it ever actually used at all before Red Dwarf

[nq:2]"Smeg" is not an invented rude word, it's a less-common ... They probably thought it was a brand of kitchen appliances.[/nq]
[nq:1]Was it ever actually used as an expletive before Red Dwarf . Come to think of it, was it ever actually used at all before Red Dwarf . "******", sure. But "smeg"? Let alone "smegging" or "smeghead".[/nq]
This is highly topical, because BBC2 aired Britain's

[nq:2]Is there a list of rude words invented for TV ... phenomenon limited to SF? Do detectives not require alternative curses?[/nq]
[nq:1]The Coneheads used a word that sounded something like "mibs", if memory serves, as a curse word. But I don't ... replace some rude English word, was it? I always thought it was intended to *be* a rude word in Orkish.[/nq]
Presumably yes, but Mork manage

[nq:2]The Coneheads used a word that sounded something like "mibs", ... it was intended to *be* a rude word in Orkish.[/nq]
[nq:1]Presumably yes, but Mork managed to translate all his other words into American English, so why not the swearing?[/nq]
Furriners always lapse into stray words of Furrin at moments of crisis. Thus the well-spoken Aristo will exclaim 'Sapristi!' as the villain sur

[nq:2]"Smeg" is not an invented rude word, it's a less-common ... They probably thought it was a brand of kitchen appliances.[/nq]
[nq:1]Was it ever actually used as an expletive before Red Dwarf . Come to think of it, was it ever actually used at all before Red Dwarf . "******", sure. But "smeg"? Let alone "smegging" or "smeghead".[/nq]

[nq:2]Was it ever actually used as an expletive before ... . "******", sure. But "smeg"? Let alone "smegging" or "smeghead".[/nq]
[nq:1]This is highly topical, because BBC2 aired Britain's Best Sitcom last night, in which the "top 50" were ... same programme, in the Porridge section, made similar claims for "naff orf" (highly disputable) and "nerk" (more credible).[/nq]
I feel sure "naff o