Harmless and silly words you thought were really rude when you were a kid - or that kids you know giggle about.

Nah, I was more a laugh hysterically when I heard a curse word kinda kid.

I was quiet growing up.

“Head wreck,” and “sassafrasin’ blond” were the big bad words of my little childhood posse. Those were reserved for jerk boys and mean girls. Hey, I was a weird kid. ;)

My cousin and I would and still do cross our pinkies into an X in a very angry tone when we would argue with each other. It’s our way of saying “fuck you”.

“Red-eyed-barn-monster” was also a common insult for my family. We’d get yelled at for saying it because the adults figured out it was a bad word to us.

fart

I remember laughing out loud in geography when I first heard of Lake Titicaca.

@dalepetrie

I remember cracking up while looking at a map of Bolivia and seeing that the country was home to both Lake Titicaca and Lake Poopo.

High Schoolers laugh at everything. They’re like big little kids, especially Seniors.
Even if you say something like “do do” it triggers their giggling.

I demand that the moderators censor any reference to barn (cough) um, creatures regardless of the color of their eyes. What kind of forum is this where people can willingly use such terms regardless of their audience?

fart
titty
pupu (a word that meant anything/amyone bad or nasty)
and my personal favourite: bird droppings (which is what I called my aunt)

From my children:
“You weirdo head!”
“You are one weird potato.”
“F-U-N-K. That’s a bad word.”
“You stupid bucket idiot!” – a lucky mis-hearing, repeated ;)

And the words I told them were bad, just because they sounded wrong coming from a toddler:
Butt
Fart
Stupid
Shut-up

It took several years before they realized that those weren’t bad words to everyone, just to me. They’ve never let me hear the end of it, either.

I was convinced the word ‘flange’ was rude when I was a kid…. pity it’s not, but it still makes me smile :)

Shut up. I know. It’s terrible.

@augustlan
“Some people may think you’re cute, Babe. But to me you’re one very large baked potato!”—Sylvester Stallone in Death Race 2000

breast and dick.

Removed by self.

Penis. vagina.

A 6 year old and a 4 year old are upstairs in their bedroom.

“You know what?” says the 6 year old. “I think it’s about time we started cussing.”

The 4 year old nods his head in approval. The 6 year old continues, “When we go downstairs for breakfast, I’m gonna say something with ‘hell’ and you say something with ‘ass.’” The 4 year old agrees with enthusiasm.

When their mother walks into the kitchen and asks the 6 year old what he wants for breakfast, he replies, “Aw, Hell, Mom, I guess I’ll have some Cheerios.”

WHACK! He flies out of his chair, tumbles across the kitchen floor, gets up, and runs upstairs crying his eyes out with his mother in hot pursuit, slapping his rear with every step. His mom locks him in his room and shouts, “You can just stay there until I let you out!”

She then comes back downstairs, looks at the 4 year old and asks
with a stern voice, “And what do YOU want for breakfast, young
man?”

“I don’t know,” he blubbers, “but you can bet your fat ass it won’t be Cheerios!”

Words that have ‘K’ sounds.

I remember the day in 9th grade history class when I learned both the words “buttress” and “pinnacle” (which my teacher pronounced ”[PEEN-icle]”). I could hardly stay in my seat from laughter.

When our kids were young (7 -13) and lined up, grumpily, for a group photo. I’d say, “Say ‘penis’ ”. That did it.

I remember there was this one little kid, five or six, who was in my group when I was a camp counselor. He over heard me when I was telling off a group of counselors who were just sitting around doing nothing when the kids were running around like crazy. I called them a bunch of apathetic freaks. This kid started calling everyone he wanted to shock an apathetic freak. I told him that he shouldn’t say freak because his parents might have an issue with that one but after, he would still run around calling people apathetic thinking he was getting away with something big!

When kids in my 8th grade class we’re reading aloud from the text book and would say orgasm instead of organism..

I used to shout at my brother “You fat pig” I think I should start using that term at work loll

I think Shut Up got me in trouble a lot. And definitely STOOOOPID!!!
XD
I wouldn’t get mad and use those a lot though. but when i did i got pretty loud and mean xD

I went to a big HS reunion in Sept. 2001. We got to talking about this and we all remembered having to read Alfred Noyes’ The Highwayman (and the landlord’s dark-eyed daughter, Bess) in ninth grade. Everyone was embarrassed at having either to read or say the word “breast” out loud, 50 years earlier.

One of two appearances in 19 verses;

“Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and warned him—with her death.”

@sliceswiththings I also remember during history class, the giggling about “flying buttresses”.

fiddlesticks. I heard it on a ferry up the Inside Passage in Alaska. For some weird reason, it’s still funny.

I remember seeing my nephew and his friend entertain themselves endlessly with simply the word poop. I also remember them being silent in the back seat making inserting gestures using both hands and stifling giggles. I used to use the word “Bitchin’ because it made me laugh I guess.