So I'm coming up on three decades...

Bookie,

Ringo and Weber's "March Upcountry" series has a guy named Poertena for comic relief. But instead of "real life" swears, they swap them around with made-up words to keep it G-rated.

Feels like a swear, gives the satisfaction of one, just a bit more public friendly and good natured, and reminds me of that loveable little goof, so puts me back in a good mood. Great series.

But yeah, now whenever I get stung, hit my hand with a hammer, etc, I just let out a long "YOU BOOOOOOOOOOGER/Little Pocker." Working at a Scout Camp really drove it home. (Especially when the kid learning to fuse rope drips molten plastic on your hand. Restraint, restraint.)

Give it a try, it's hard to stay in a bad mood when you're spouting nonsense. ^_^
 
TheQuest said:
Bookie,

Ringo and Weber's "March Upcountry" series has a guy named Poertena for comic relief. But instead of "real life" swears, they swap them around with made-up words to keep it G-rated.

Feels like a swear, gives the satisfaction of one, just a bit more public friendly and good natured, and reminds me of that loveable little goof, so puts me back in a good mood. Great series.

But yeah, now whenever I get stung, hit my hand with a hammer, etc, I just let out a long "YOU BOOOOOOOOOOGER/Little Pocker." Working at a Scout Camp really drove it home. (Especially when the kid learning to fuse rope drips molten plastic on your hand. Restraint, restraint.)

Give it a try, it's hard to stay in a bad mood when you're spouting nonsense. ^_^
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Poertena isn't using made up profanity, he's using the real thing with a Filipino accent. Filipinos turn the F into a P. The reason the Philippines have an F sound in the name is because the Spanish named it.
 
Scara said:
Poertena isn't using made up profanity, he's using the real thing with a Filipino accent. Filipinos turn the F into a P. The reason the Philippines have an F sound in the name is because the Spanish named it.
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F and the P, yeah, but what about the U -> O? accent's part of it, but I'm sure the distancing is intentional, ie, the Aldenata and Looking Glass books where he just swaps to "Grapping."
 
TheQuest said:
F and the P, yeah, but what about the U -> O? accent's part of it, but I'm sure the distancing is intentional, ie, the Aldenata and Looking Glass books where he just swaps to "Grapping."
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Only Aldenata book I've read so far has been Watch on the Rhine, which didn't have any of that. I don't know the full details of Filipino accents, though I can ask my brother or a number of my friends. My brother speaks Tagalog, and I have friends who speak Cebuano, Visayan, Chupakano, and other Filipino languages.
 
You guys talk all that ferrin gibberish you want. This old pocker can do the same in pig latin. Now, you got me here, though. What's this "Ringo and Weber's "March Upcountry" series"? Truthfully, never have heard of it. Now, if it's on one of them televisions, we up here in Corn Patch don't get to watch them. The receptions bad and corn stalks don't make very good antennas. Only get shows like The Masked Bawanna Rides Again, Bawanna's Loves for Late at Night, and Bawanna & Scooby Doo, Sooper-Slueths.
 
Well at least you get the good stuff anyhow. Scooby Doo was always a good mate.
 
Bookie said:
You guys talk all that ferrin gibberish you want. This old pocker can do the same in pig latin. Now, you got me here, though. What's this "Ringo and Weber's "March Upcountry" series"? Truthfully, never have heard of it. Now, if it's on one of them televisions, we up here in Corn Patch don't get to watch them. The receptions bad and corn stalks don't make very good antennas. Only get shows like The Masked Bawanna Rides Again, Bawanna's Loves for Late at Night, and Bawanna & Scooby Doo, Sooper-Slueths.
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Science-fiction novels, sometimes called The Empire of Man series. I'm nearly done with the first, but they're quite good.
 
Nice pix and post, thank you for sharing
 
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