“Schei…”–oh shit I am not saying shit in front of the kids…–“benkleister!”
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For some reason as a kid we used to say “shengus!”
I’m assuming most of these are because of a similarity to actual curse words so you can strategically as an adult back out of a genuine swear word half way through.
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“Son of a beech nut!” as an American former girlfriend of mine used to say.
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The first 30 seconds or so of this…
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There should be a special mention in English to Shh… sugar 
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Son of a beech I’ve heard, without the nut. Beech nut makes more sense, and is better deniable.
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We’re on vacation. Yesterday morning, at a time my wife and daughter were still in bed, the hotel engineer called to say the door had thrown a low battery alarm, and asked if he could come change it. I asked him to wait until we were gone for the day. Today, we came back, and the door wouldn’t open, because — you’re not going to believe this— the battery was dead. It has now been replaced. Interestingly (to me anyway, my wife rolled her eyes) there is no mechanical backup, you plug a usb battery pack in to power it. The battery itself is just 4 Aa cells in a pack with a little plug. The guy who changed it said they last a month or less.
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My wife taught me “Son of a biscuit,” which makes no sense but works. I often fall back on The Three Amigos with “Son of a motherless goat.”
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Now you make me think, due to my Spanish accent, I may say Son of a Beech more often than the female dog version… Or Son of a Beach. The English language and its tricky vowels…
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Just bought a very tiny bit of a pub (0.016666667%).
The oub where we meet to game is being sold by the current owners, an EvilPubCo™ so the current landlords have got a community grant and mortgage on the property. They need the community to put up the rest, so we’ve gone in as a syndicate to help out.
Hopefully they’ll make it! They’re currently £30k short and need all offers in by 31 March
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Ha that‘s cool
Just the other day we got the email that the local outdoor shop who is turning into a Genossenschaft has finally got the paperwork done and they‘ll want the money for our „tiny bit of an outdoorshop“ soon.
The place is an institution… there are a couple of other places I‘d go in for buying a piece of it… FLGS among them of course… if they ever go that route.
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At my Mum and Dad’s. Been presented with a box of First Day Covers that my Nanna used to buy me.
Sorry, can’t work out how to rotate that
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Today I learned that the bit at the end of SPACEBALLS with the singing tiny alien is actually referencing a single Looney Tunes cartoon from 1955, and apparently that was famous enough for everyone to get it.
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The cartoon gave the song “Hello! Ma Baby” by Howard and Emerson a huge boost too, since by then it was over half a century old and not much remembered.
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This is also a great example of presenting an undying sanity blasting horror in an unconventional fashion.
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I guess an important point would be, how old are you? I grew up on Bugs Bunny and Tom & Jerry cartoons, so I saw this many a time before Spaceballs was released. But those older cartoons are not in syndication anymore (AFAIK), so I doubt younger generations are as familiar with them.
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I was born mid-70s, and I’m guessing a lot of people in 1987 would have got the reference. I saw the more famous opera Looney-tunes episode etc and a ton of Bugs Bunny, never saw this one!
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