Belgium! Gorram Frackin' Sithspawn! Grozit, Frell You!

Contest: The first person who can correctly name where all those swears came from, tell me your first name and I'll mention you in a comedy sketch.

Questions:

What do you think of made up terms in sci-fi?

What do you think about made up swears? Does it take you out of the story? Do you use it?

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• novels
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[ISNirgal]

dam I've got too much to say. But I've also been on a bit of a Farscape binge so here are a few from there:

Frell, Ema, Farbot, Lomaz and Hezmarna.

When you wrote "Groit" did you mean Goit from Red Dwarf, now that I've mentioned The big Red One how can I not also mention Smeg and it's variations like the classic "sssmmmeeeggg hhhhheeeeaaadddd"- A direct quote from Kryton there.

[chudleycannonfodder]

I can't believe I forgot smeg! And no, grozit is not from Red Dwarf.

Also, I noticed that when I did a google search for grozit, my video came up on the first page. I'm guessing it's not as popular as I thought it was.

Anyway, I'll give some hints for grozit. I know of three different series that used it. One was a book series, another was a comic, and another was a kids show. They were all written by the same person.

[dreamflower530]

Gorram= Firefly, Joss Whedon

Grozit= ST New Frontier, Peter David (that's what I'm reading right now)

Frell= Farscape

Frakkin= (mine is always with just a K) Battlestar Galactica

The other 2 I don't know off-hand, but I'm assuming Sithspawn is part of the Star Wars book canon. And Belgium is part of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which feels like a distant memory from having read the books in middle school when I'm now in college.

[chudleycannonfodder]

Nice! Peter David's New Frontier series are some of my favorite Star Trek novels. Peter's used the curse in NF, Space Cases and his Captain Marvel comics.

I think those are all the curses I mentioned. Congrats, you win the game!

[ramsesvienna]

Hello chudleycannonfodder,

I don't know all the answers, cause whe haven't seen all the series in Belgium.

But I do know Fracking/BSG, Sithspaw/star wars, Gorram/Firefly.

And I use Frack, and, slipstream and even, Fhelgercarp every day.

BTW did I mention I come from Belgium?

Nice work,

sonja

[chudleycannonfodder]

Nice one! I didn't think of fhelgercarp.

And that's awesome that you're from that country that I'm too afraid to say.

[Aisubekihime]

Your shirt! I love your shirt!

[ZCRnotVCR]

I love me some technobabble. No one makes it hotter than the Doctor. And nothing is cooler than Firefly swears. Especially when you learn things in Chinese.

[komit71]

iT IS all fun and games..GAMES..now when you are young... But Fantasy will take over your life.... It will consume you.... And Reality will kick the shit out of you...  maybe in the form of an earthquake... maybe something else... so either pursue your intrest in fantasy writing,,,, get with the real world..and grow up.

[90sCartoonMan]

I found this video because I did a google search for "Grozit". I said it the other day and thought it was from Legion of Super Heroes, then I realized I got it from Captain Marvel. It's a Saturn thing, right?

[UnculturedProject]

Frack? Gorram? Frell? AND you reference Penny-Arcade in your video? This video is pure awesome.

[brojoghost]

lol! "if there's a small child or animal near you..." oops, my poor hamster!