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to think that user names that are spoonerisms should mean something?

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:28

There are a lot of spoonerised sweary names about at the moment.

PatFenis and BettySwollocks get a big tick because they suggest proper names

I love buppy's name, especially as it takes something as twee as cupcakes and bunting and completely subverts the concept.

CunningStunt gets a double tick because it forms two new words.

What I don't get are the names which don't create something else - along the lines of ShuckingFit.

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:28

I'm overanalysing this aren't I?

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:29

Actually ShuckingFit could mean something, I suppose.

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bruxeur · 18/05/2012 09:29

Erm.

Fucking shit?

bruxeur · 18/05/2012 09:29

You need a better example.

thebody · 18/05/2012 09:30

Have you been drinking?

MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:30

What I mean, bruxeur, is when the sweary words get spoonerised, they should create a proper word, not something meaningless.

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:30

No thebody, I've just lost the plot.

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uberalice · 18/05/2012 09:32

I think the point BrardyMa Grin is saying is that whilst FuckingShit means something, ShuckingFit doesn't.

bronze · 18/05/2012 09:32

Erm what ?

GretaGip · 18/05/2012 09:32

I completely agree that you are ovre-thinking.

bronze · 18/05/2012 09:32

But patfenis makes one new word which the op said was ok. Is fit not a word?

bruxeur · 18/05/2012 09:33

A shucking fit is what fishmongers experience sometimes when they've been preparing oysters for too long without a break.

MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:33

OK, what I mean is that KuckingFunt, for example, doesn't actually mean anything when it's transformed.

But CunningStunt does.

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:34

Shuckingfit was a bad example. I agree.

I'm struggling to be uncreative.

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bruxeur · 18/05/2012 09:38

A kucking funt is a piece of furniture in Ulster churches that can double as a slow cooker.

MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:39

OK, fair enough bruxeur. IABU and a little weird

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BigDavesGusset · 18/05/2012 09:45

I'm with you MardyBra, I've always thought this too.

The ones that work are clever and funny, but some of them are just a bit lame.

MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:47

Finally someone understands me. Thanks BigDave. Phew.

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OhNoMyFanjo · 18/05/2012 09:48

Mardy, stop being so..erm.... Mardy

PrincessFiorimonde · 18/05/2012 09:51

But KuckingFunt does mean something when it's Spoonerised. It's just spelled wrongly differently (FuckingKunt).

PrincessFiorimonde · 18/05/2012 09:53

I see your point too, Mardy. It's just that your examples are a bit, umm, lame.

I like bruxeur's helpful definitions, though.

MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:53

PrincessF. What I mean is that when FuckingKunt gets spoonerised into KuckingFunt, KuckingFunt doesn't mean anything.

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:53

Sorry Princess, was replying to your first post.

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:54

Yes. Examples are lame. There are only so many swear words to spoonerise. And lots of them start with b. So fucking becomes bucking.

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MardyBra · 18/05/2012 09:55

Apologies to KuckingFunt, btw. I wasn't intending to name names, but I wasn't really explaining myself very well. Nothing personal intended.

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