MetaFilter posts tagged with euphemisms

Dancing the Blanket Hornpipe

Isadorady — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 18:51:33 -0800

17 euphemisms for doing it taken from the Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. And previously on the blue.

A Heartbreaking Wank of Staggering Spunkage

wendell — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:13:33 -0800

61 literary euphemisms for masturbation…
via the always discreeet Miss Cellania
(and yes, we've had something similar here before, but it missed this list, which is, you know, literary)

[your name] & [partner's name], Fighting Crime!

not_on_display — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:37:17 -0800

[NSFW] • Baseball usually provides Americans with their first roundabout ways of talking about "Visiting Busch Stadium"... but what if you prefer golf? Or the Olympics? What if you're Canadian? An academic? Or like plunderphonics? Can any phrase be turned into a euphemism for sex? Maybe; here are the can oni cal lists. [perviously] [AskMe thread about sex euphemisms 'around the world,' IYKWIM]

Insert your favorite euphemism

aliceinreality — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:26:00 -0800

Rose George wants you to start talking about waste. And no, she isn't concerned with your recycling habits, your fluorescent light bulbs, or the packaging on your electronics. She's concerned with your, ahem, human waste. Ms. George has written a book on the way both first and third world societies deal with sewage, and now Freakonomics is talking with her about it.

Power, it starts with P like...

serazin — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 21:48:00 -0800

If you don't watch My Puss then You Suck. But what I want to know is, if you're gonna Eat to the Beat, How Many Licks until you go blind? Maybe we can find out Downtown. Sure, this post is full of video, audio, pop-ups, and is probably NSFW, but you know you want to join in with your favorite songs in praise of the empowered punani! Come on and Put a Little Sugar in My Bowl!

Politically correct hardware terminology:

sixtwenty3dc — Tue, 25 Nov 2003 06:25:09 -0800

LA County, leading the charge: Equipment vendors who do business with Los Angeles County received a message in November 2003 from the county's Internal Services Department (ISD) informing them that "based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles County," labeling or describing equipment with the term 'master/slave' is no longer acceptable. (via snopes.com)
the slashdot comments on this...

Goodness Gracious! What A Lot Of Ways Of Not Saying "God"!

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:10:28 -0800

Goodness Gracious! What A Lot Of Ways Of Not Saying "God"! Jeez may be MetaFilter's genteel exclamation of choice, but crusty and trusty old William Safire of the New York Times[registration required]has the gracious goods on other ways of not(quite)invoking the name of the Lord in vain; whilst proving en route that Donald Rumsfeld isn't, after all, the wilting sissy or pseudo-Southern belle we all thought him to be...

semmi — Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:56:18 -0800

The tendency toward euphemism, catchwords, bites and labels displacing description of uniquicity. Battles of rhetorical titans!

The Euphemism Generator

gen — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 14:45:01 -0800

The Euphemism Generator can create up to 68,289,490 unique phrases! Do you have a favorite euphemism?