got to love word filters.
I remember my year 7 Netball team getting through 3/4 of a season with the name "The Far Cups" before anyone picked up the meaning.
Was actually an umpire who was so embarrassed when she said it fast out loud.
Something I like from my past. One of the kids shows I used to watch as a little 'n. T'was on the BBC but Auntie Beeb, nor I, figured it out until much later. The show was "Captain Pugwash, a character associated with it called..............................Seaman Staines
Some of Captain Pugwashes favourite
exclamations or Pugwashisms:
"Dolloping doubloons/dolphins!"
"Coddling catfish!"
"Lolloping landlubbers!"
"Suffering seagulls!"
"Staggering stalactites!"
"Nautical nitwits!"
"Plundering porpoises!"
"Kipper me capstans!"
"Tottering turtles!"
"Dithering dogfish!"
"Scuttling cuttlefish!"
"Stuttering starfish!"
"Blistering Barnacles!"
Cut-Throat Jake has occasionally been known to utter the similar exclamation, "Scupper me skull-and-crossbones!"