I'm feeling very grown up and clever
In a year 7 English class today, the kids were looking at nouns and what differentiates proper nouns from common nouns. They made an alphabetical list for each and had to COME UP with a noun for each letter. They all managed proper nouns easily enough, but struggled with the common ones. Most of them had xylophone (without buggery, for that would be a verb) for "x" and zebra for "z". Several of them came to me saying, "Miss, we're stuck on "q"..."

I summoned all the maturity and social skills humanly possible for me and did *not* shout "QUIM!"
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 17:32, 10 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I have been in that kind of situation
I used to have a girl whose surname was Hucker. So hard not to rhyme!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 17 Sep 2008, 17:34, Reply)

ancrenne
The strain of KEEPING IT IN caused moderate bladder leakage...
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 17:40, Reply)

Mrs Liveinabin
I could not have coped in that situation - it's a spoonerism waiting to happen!

I'm the same with the surname Hunt - I want to call them "Warrick" or "Isaac" or "Yorik". Fucking childish, I am, and passed redemption.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 17:44, Reply)

*pfft*
If I were in your position I think I'd probably struggle to keep the "QUIM!" quiet too.

Full marks to Miss Tourettes for that one.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Wed 17 Sep 2008, 17:48, Reply)

Nicely done!
I think I'd have quim between my lips before my brain thought about it.

Er..
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 18:10, Reply)

...
It took me a moment, as that's an English term that hasn't crossed the ocean yet.

Nice restraint you showed there.

Could have told them "queef" though...
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Wed 17 Sep 2008, 18:15, Reply)

@ The Loon
"A queef is a vaginal expulsion of gas, mmm'kay"
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 18:23, Reply)

^ That sounds
like it's COME straight from the Profanisaurus?
It's new to me...

*stores queef for future reference*


*EDIT* Just looked it up:

queef n. Can. A Lawley kazoo, a hat dropped forward, a flap raspberry. Also kweef.
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 18:46, Reply)

Haha
It's from an episode of South Park.
It's a line from Mr. Mackey.

It's probably in the Profanisaurus though:)

Lawley Kazoo?

Nice!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Wed 17 Sep 2008, 18:48, Reply)