Has there ever been a good euphemism?

[Bossy Monkey]

Name one if you can. Me, I'm all about the cacophemisms!:D

[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Cacophemism *is* a euphemism.

[Bossy Monkey]

6. No, just a coined word

or neologism, if you want to get all sesquipedalian about it. Though everybody around here seems to think that euphemism means a big word, actually it is supposed to be a pretty word, usually for an unpretty concept. Jail becomes detention center, prison becomes penitentiary or correctional center, etc. etc. As cacophony is an onomatopoeic term for ugly noise, presumably cacophemism would mean ugly words and thus would be as far from a euphemism as possible. And that's all the vocabulary words I know, so I'll sign off. :)

[Smarmie Doofus]

8. How 'bout "Dept. of Defense" for "Dept of War"? Gotta...

be the most significant ( and diabolical) example of linguistic mischief in the twentieth century; occuring, as it did, when Wash. decided to gear up for the "nat'l security state" and faced, for the first time, no real significant foreign threats against which the country needed to be " defended".

[Bertha Venation]

12. LOL

That was terrific!

[NightTrain]

2. Wind-surfing on Mount Baldy

:P

[Lautremont]

3. Taking the skinboat to tunatown,

and I hope I don't get this thread locked.

[Bossy Monkey]

4. I don't think that's actually a euphemism, but it's funny :D

[SarahB]

5. Hot beef injection.

Riding the hobby horse.

[Briarius]

7. Huh, imagine seeing you post to this thread...

oh and here's one more, getting some tail

[SarahB]

14. What?

:shrug:
How about slurpin' the gherkin?

[KitchenWitch]

9. "member"

[Bertha Venation]

10. At a party: "Excuse me, where's the euphemism, please?"

How's that?

[LynzM]

11. LOL

Nice :P

[Bertha Venation]

13. Glad ya liked it.

:bounce:

[northzax]

15. praying to the porcelain god

driving the porcelain bus

[crispini]

16. This thread is SO getting locked.

But before it does, I've always been rather fond of "rides the short bus to school" myself.

[SarahB]

17. Really?

I enjoy playing with the man in the boat myself.

[crispini]

18. LOL!