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17 Old-Timey Swear Words That Are Anything But Offensive Today

17 Old-Timey Swear Words That Are Simply Funny Today
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Huff/Post 50 Editor, The Huffington Post

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Remember when you were a kid and you got your mouth washed out with soap for uttering that swear word you heard on the street? Although the obvious four-letter words were off limits, sometimes we came up with our own clever sayings to express ourselves without expletives.

Whatever your curse word of choice was, it's more than likely less coarse than the expletives we hear today. We decided to ask our Facebook fans which swear words from yesteryear are nothing more than some seriously funny crud nowadays. Here's what they had to say.

1. "Doggone it!"

2. "Shoot" or "Sugar"

3. "Holy moly"

4. "Jeez Louise!"

5. "Gosh"

6. "Dadgummit!"

7. "Oh, poop."

8. "Jesum Crow"

9. "Fiddlesticks!"

10. "Jiminy Cricket"

11. "Heavens to Betsy!"

12. "Bull corn"

13. "Consarn"

14. "Drats!"

15. "Oh, fudge"

16. "Son of a gun"

17. "Hell's bells"

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10 Things You Don't Know About Older People
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1. Every second, two people around the world celebrate their sixtieth birthday. (credit:Alamy)
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2. In 1910, life expectancy for a Chilean female was 33 years. Today it is 82 years. (credit:Help Age International)
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3. On 16 October 2011, British national Fauja Singh became the first 100 year-old to complete a marathon by running the Toronto Waterfront Marathon in Canada. (credit:AP)
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4. In the United Kingdom, one third of the babies born in 2012 can expect to celebrate their 100th birthday. (credit:Alamy)
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5. 65% of people over 60 live in less developed countries. Despite their growing share of the population in the developing world however, less than one percent of humanitarian aid was targeted at olderpeople in 2010-11. (credit:Help Age International)
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6. Born in Tennessee in 1896, Besse Cooper is the world’s oldest living person. On her 116th birthday this year she said: “I mind my own business. And I don’t eat junk food.” (credit:AP)
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7. Japan is the world’s “oldest” country, with the highest concentration of people aged 60 and over. (credit:AP)
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8. Forty-seven percent of males over 60 years old and 24 percent of females over 60 years old still participate in the labour force; in some developing countries, over 90 percent of [people] over 60 work. (credit:ShutterStock)
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9. Harlan David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders, founded Kentucky Fried Chicken at the age of 65. (credit:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="Flickr" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb6746de4b05271530a55aa" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="0" data-vars-position-in-unit="5">Flickr</a>:<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14812197@N00/3417380008" role="link" class=" js-entry-link cet-external-link" data-vars-item-name="vxla" data-vars-item-type="text" data-vars-unit-name="5bb6746de4b05271530a55aa" data-vars-unit-type="buzz_body" data-vars-target-content-id="http://www.flickr.com/photos/14812197@N00/3417380008" data-vars-target-content-type="url" data-vars-type="web_external_link" data-vars-subunit-name="before_you_go_slideshow" data-vars-subunit-type="component" data-vars-position-in-subunit="1" data-vars-position-in-unit="6">vxla</a>)
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10. Fewer than one in five older people globally have access to a pension. (credit:ShutterStock)
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