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The boys have had the worst POTTY mouths lately! Where did my angel sons go? The more I reprimanded the worse it got...until.... I ran across a 'Learn to Swear in Chinese' CD! I sat the little sailors down and brainwashed them with Chinese expletives. It worked! The house rule is that they are only allowed to no-no in Chinese. (I probably should have picked a more obscure language) Da-shiong bao-jah-shr duh la-doo-tze!
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Swearing Like a Chinese Sailor
Posted by Marie Reed at 6:02 AM
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44 cool cats commented:
Oh, the wonders of the Internet. I Googled your phrase, and I know what it means...!
Clever tactic you took!
this is fun and so inventive! But it would be bad if they meet one that knows Chinese:) so better train them to be still quiet about it:)
Happy Monday!
LOL! Bibi's advice to Google the phrase was a blast. Now, I know what it is too ;). Have a wonderful week, Marie :)
They swear in english and in french ? Cool, that means they're bilingual...With your very creative idea, Marie, they'll know one more important language for the future.
Bonjour dear Marie! You are so clever! I'm very impressed! Cool!
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Luna
Very creative solution. GREAT idea! And I'm glad it works. ;-)
LOL That is the funniest thing ever! You're so creative!
Marie: What a cute card, the
W(hole family) eh!
Hi there, followed the link from Luna's blog today. Yes I remember those potty mouth days well. Good tactic on the Chinese phrase. I had a Chinese friend who taught me some very rude phrases way back. When I met her years later she said, "I bet you can't remember what I taught you." I rattled them off without hesitation. Those rude words have a way of staying in your head - lol.
Very good idea! Wish I had thought of that years ago..Once they had friends in the car and the language got a bit colorful, so I pulled the car over to the side of the road. The looks on their faces was worth it..
Penney
That is so funny.
The three-holer, by the by, looks just like the one on Grandma's farm in northern Minnesota...
I love that card & what a creative mom you are! Very clever idea! I'm going to have to google that phrase now!
My son likes to complain about school (we homeschool) so I told him he could only complain in Latin! I figured if he's going to complain anyway, he might as well be learning something!
YOu have SUCH a wonderful sense of humor, Marie! Too funny... hope you're having a wonderful day, Kathy
OMG..you are too funny....and so creative...I'm off to google that phrase....
LOL, I'm Chinese and didn't know what it means until I googled the phrase!!
You are creative!!
Thanks for your comment....
I had to laugh though... I think the person who commented before you might be pregnant.
I WAS pregnant about 24 years ago... whew.... no.. no more for me... way past that...
:-)
Oh I am SO laughing ... soon they will have mastered Chinese and then what will you do? Yiddish!
I was listening to a group of 13 year old boys rattle off swear words like they were talking about groceries. It amazes me what is acceptable these days...I guess I had my own language going on when I was 13, but I don't think I ever said that in front of anyone's mom!
I like you tactic. Maybe I can suggest this to my own soon to be 13 year old :)
That was a good idea about the swearing. Wong foo oogie boogie. ha ha ha Really cute postcard. Loved the double entendre "drop all your cares here". :)
Well that's a first for me! You certainly come up with some creative child-rearing ideas!!! LOL You're too funny! Have a great week! ~Lori
Thanks for stopping by my blog! I love the idea...Chinese. I never would've thought of that! Hope that they get bored with trying to find all the swear words and leaned towards clean words instead....like, "Mom, can I help sweep the floor, please???" LOL
Funny! And probably safe, because, unless they're very good with accents, even a Chinaman probably won't recognize the swear words. Ingenious mothering, I must say.
Good evening, Marie! Very funny post indeed!
About your question, my improvisations are works I create at the computer.
Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment! Love this idea with the Chinese! Think it would work with adults as well? :)
Amy
My husband has a "two holer" up at his rustic camp in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. I don't think I could share an outhouse!
That's hysterical about the Chinese.
I've heard that phrase as "swearing like a drunken sailor" but in this case, your title is better. And if you're anything like my older sister, you'll say, "of course it is." :)
They used the same tactic of swearing in Chinese on the tv series Firefly, but it never quite came across as naturally as a real, honest-to-goodness swearing.
What a clever idea! I distinctly remember when I was around 7 and learned the "worst swear". I had no clue what it meant, but I knew it was extremely taboo to say. Yet I told it to my little brother and before long we were parading around the house chanting it as if it were the most innocent of words. My mother took the neat approach of letting us say it as much as we wanted to that day and then explaining that we were not to use it again because it wasn't an appropriate word for children. This approach worked like a charm because I don't think I uttered it again until I was a teen.
Hopefully the novelty of naughty words will wear off on your little guys soon, too ;)
Happy Monday wishes,
♥ Jessica
Okay the translation was funny! If I tried this with my children they would've said I was
Fong luh.
Very creative way to curb the potty language. Thanks for sharing.
that card is so awesome for MYM.
Happy Monday!
Creativity wins every time! Love this for sure ;--)
Hugs and blessings,
Tsai boo shr!
Funny and clever idea! Now I need to google your phrase. LOL
tina :)
Don't go visit China Town!
love the postcard..where do you get them to go along with your post?you really are amazing!! wish i'd thought of that...my beautiful 25 yo daughter has a potty mouth that would make a sailor blush..thank goodness ,not around her children!!
Oh this is hilarious! Thanks for the laugh! :)
Interesting way of coping with a problem. Definitely with you on selecting a more obscure language though...you chose the 2nd most used language in the world (the first is English)..:)
Great postcard - and great strategy on getting them to learn a language!
One of my daughters *is* a sailor and swears like one, but swearing in Chinese wouldn't work. Her ship has stopped in several ports where Chinese is spoken. Better she doesn't know if they're swearing at her, and better for international relations if she can't mispronounce those phrases on the CD back at them!
Cute postcard, btw! Any idea what state it came from?
Lol, that's cute and funny! I loved how you solved the swearing problem, hehe.
Happy MYM!
Thats very funny . lol
I couldn't get my kids to do that though.
lol
What a clever mom you are! What a funny twist! Have a great week!
Marie, you could teach those little rascals this one - bao bay -and just tell them that it's naughty
I think this is hilarious. I wish I would of thought of it when my kids were younger, but then again I could learn it for myself. :)
Kris
Oh my goodness....
Love the card....great idea.
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