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Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-03-2002, 01:49 AM:
There are a lot of times during the day when it is necessary to use the word "fucking" or "fuckin'" to describe something. That's great and all, but "fucking" really isn't hip, is it? So what do I propose to remedy this extremely dire situation, so that we may remain hip and trendy? Simply use the word "phuggin" instead! Works great written down and shows everybody that U R tight bangin' yo. So you can now say things like "Phuggin Technicolor" and be hip instead of vulgar.
Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 04-03-2002, 01:55 AM:
What the phug? 
Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 04-03-2002, 03:37 AM:
One of the first chiefs I ever worked for used to write 'NFG' on the report sheets for worn or damaged prints. If anyone (e.g. a distributor 'phoned up) asked him what it stood for, he'd reply 'no flippin' good'. I don't think anyone was left in any doubt as to the real meaning. 
Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 04-03-2002, 08:55 AM:
Years ago, when I was a kid, there used to be a laundry detergent named "Duz". Back then the competition for the market was stiff. Along came a new detergent named, "Phug", trying to muscle in on their market share.Their slogan was:
If Duz don't do it, Phug it!
Posted by Joe Beres (Member # 678) on 04-03-2002, 10:24 AM:
I think that Benecio del Toro used that 'phug' quite a lot in The Usual Suspects. no?
Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 04-03-2002, 10:29 AM:
Phuggin A.------------------
The man with the magic hands.
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-03-2002, 12:56 PM:
I know a cat that uses the "Phugin" word. However we call him a "Pussey". 
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-03-2002, 02:01 PM:
Richard Pryor has a comedy routine about two competing laundry soaps on one of his early albums...."Fugg" and "Sugg." "If ya can't Fugg it...Sugg it!"
Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 04-03-2002, 04:16 PM:
Why use a word when the original has so much mure balls.When I drop the big one people have no doubt about my mood.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-03-2002, 05:25 PM:
Simple! Because it is more important to be hip! Being hip is more important than friends, family, disease, war, peace, Snickers bars, you name it! If you can't be hip you might as well just shoot yourself.
Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 04-03-2002, 06:11 PM:
Hip, Hip you sayYesterday my daughter bullied me into buying phuggin flares.
I hoped I had seen the last of those bloody things way back when "keep on trucking" was hip.
Shit I'm now so hip I'm bigger than Oprah.
Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 04-03-2002, 06:20 PM:
That is so phiggidy phuggin phatastic homey. Word to your doritos.------------------
--"That's my story and i'm sticking to it!"--
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-03-2002, 07:50 PM:
When Ethan speak's "People Listen!"of course...he can't speak at home ..cause he is a Newly Wed.
Posted by Arthur Allen (Member # 969) on 04-03-2002, 08:02 PM:
"Phuggin'" was the substitue swear word used in "Johnny Dangerously" to get around the then-fairly new PG-13 rating.
Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 04-03-2002, 10:05 PM:
From memory he refered to someone as a "fargin cork sarger"
My kids were not that old & still snicker about this
Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 04-03-2002, 10:50 PM:
To Bob Maar:Ha ha ha sighs (fake sarcastic laugh). Gotta to rememeber that one. Phew! 
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--"That's my story and i'm sticking to it!"--
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 04-04-2002, 12:28 AM:
It was 'Fargin' as used in 'Johnny Dangerously''Fargin Iceholes...This is FARGIN WAR!'
(as a news headline spins upon the screen reading 'FARGIN WAR!!!!)
-Aaron
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-04-2002, 04:16 AM:
Why are you laughing Ethan? It's not funny. It's not phuggin phunny at all! Ashamed you no longer have any say so anymore.
Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 04-04-2002, 11:00 AM:
What the phug is going on in here! All this phuggin language! there might be some phuggin kids out there reading this!
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 04-04-2002, 11:57 AM:
Anyone ever hear of Moe Fugger Malt Liquor? ------------------
This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....
Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 04-04-2002, 02:57 PM:
They din't use da ph fo da f, so it can't be too phiddgy, so I ain't phuggin drinkin' it.------------------
The man with the magic hands.
Posted by Will Kutler (Member # 770) on 04-04-2002, 03:33 PM:
So, ok, heres a low pun....in response to the current woes of the Catholic Church, our favorite word now means Found Under Carnal err Cardinal Knowledge !
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-04-2002, 03:59 PM:
Wiil....that's so bad, it's no phuggin good. What the Phug were you thinking? It's time for you to put on your phuggin thinking cap and try again.I wish you better phigganistic luck the next time.
Posted by David Favel (Member # 1125) on 04-04-2002, 05:02 PM:
Ken, no I haven't heard of that brand.But as for Dickens Cider
Theres nothing my wife likes more than a Dickens Cider.
(Say it out loud)
Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 04-04-2002, 05:23 PM:
To Brad and Bob:Ha ha ha sighs (fake sarcastic laugh). Gotta to rememeber that one. Phew!
No she does let me talk.
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--"That's my story and i'm sticking to it!"--
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-04-2002, 06:10 PM:
Ethan! Shhhh! She'll hear you!
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 04-04-2002, 07:04 PM:
To Eathen: If that were true she would be a member in good standing of "film-tech.com" since I havn't seen her post you must be quiet at home. Therefore you can not speak when you want...only as she dictates. Such is life......whoa is you!! sniff, sniff. 
It's a pluggin shame..that is what it is.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 04-04-2002, 07:30 PM:
Ethan, your talking when she is sleeping does not phuggin count.
Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 04-04-2002, 09:49 PM:
Oh you guys, heh heh (fake laugh) only on the internet can I be made fun of from people all over the world that like to eat hamsters.Joe: She cant hear me I am posting this from work.
Brad: She is not asleep, she is resting.
Plus, she let me keep the Hooters T -Shirt. I also still have the Hooters video. Too Bad no one else is interested in seeing it.
I take care of my womens.
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--"That's my story and i'm sticking to it!"--
Posted by Dave Macaulay (Member # 813) on 04-04-2002, 10:03 PM:
Norman Mailer used (copiously) the euphemistic word "fug" in his novel "The Naked And The Dead" because publishers would not print the real word in 1948. This was the first printed use I know of, either he invented it or had come across it. Mailer certainly knew of Alfred Jarry's use of "Merdre" (ie "shitr")in his play Ubu Roi and the riot resulting at the Paris premiere in 1896...
In 1964 a folk-rock-ish iconoclastic band formed, named "the Fugs" in a tribute of sorts. They were still together in some form in 2001, and still pretty weird. I have their early song "Wet Dream" on MP3 here if someone wants it (a classic!).Spelling it "phug" is new to me, but I haven't seen it written or heard it spoken lately. The need for a euphemism is gone... publishers don't give a fuck what they print, and I hear words every night on TV that would have earned me lots of trouble 40 years ago if I'd uttered them in earshot of an adult.
Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 04-05-2002, 12:57 AM:
ph instad of F....the new way instead of saying Fat it is Phat...
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 04-05-2002, 01:24 PM:
But Fat is not synonymous with Phat. Fat means fat, phat means cool, or something like that.------------------
This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....
Posted by Dwayne Caldwell (Member # 417) on 04-05-2002, 02:05 PM:
Slangwise, fat means stupid and phat means cool. So I guess to distinguish between an insult and a compliment (besides the tone of voice the line is delivered in), you could say "You are so fucking fat!" for the insult and "You are so phuggin phat!" for the compliment. Phug the phuggin phuggers!
Posted by Ken Lackner (Member # 1002) on 04-05-2002, 03:24 PM:
That's news to me! I had no idea there was a slang definition for "fat." But what the phug do I know? I ain't phidgiddy phat like dat.------------------
This one time, at Projection Camp, I stuck a xenon bulb....
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 04-05-2002, 04:23 PM:
Phiggidy! Ken, your constant e-mails to me about how to talk tight-bangin' are beginning to pay off! Here is your final lesson: Use "phiggidy", "phuggin" and "phat" as much as you can at work. Professional types love it. You'll get that tech job by the end of the week!
Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 04-05-2002, 05:22 PM:
Phuggin at Ricks??? I'm shocked!