Alternate curse words?

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Tis_Bearself said:
The Marines object strenuously if you equate them with the Navy
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Yes they have been known to do that a time or two. Different branches of the service in the name department with many missions intertwined. You will find marines aboard ships and sailors pounding the ground with the marines.
 
My husband as a hospital corpsman in the Navy. The Marines love “Docs” as they call them. There is that connection. Even now when my husband talks to Marines and they find out his past, they admire him. It’s kind of sweet, as I have mentioned before, my son is a Marine, and my daughter is a Navy officer.
 
Yeah, my dad was Navy medical corps. He had no training in medicine whatsoever. He didn’t even grow up on a farm caring for animals. He and his older brother volunteered in WWII after Pearl Harbor because they figured they would get drafted into the Army if they waited. (Or more likely, Dad’s brother decided this would be a good idea and Dad tagged along after him because he looked up to him and older brother was supposed to be the smart one in the family.) Dad said somebody just came into his recruitment class and said “everybody who finished high school, stand up” and the ones who stood up, including Dad, got sent off to medical corps.

Dad’s brother ended up a radioman in the VT-8 “Torpedo Squadron 8” and was killed at Midway along with everybody else in that squadron except the one guy who was rescued the next day.
 
Wow, that is some story! Did your dad stick with the medical stuff afterward?
 
No, he went back to driving railroad trains like his father did. Railroad work was a really great job then, it was like working in software is today - all kinds of benefits. Spent a year in college on the GI bill, but stayed in the reserves so he got called back up for Korea, and at some point after that he managed to get a desk job as a labor analyst/ lobbyist/ statistician with a railroad union and kept that job until he retired, despite having no college degree.
He liked economics and law but for various reasons didn’t feel he could go back to school.

The medical stuff pretty much horrified him. He didn’t talk about it when I was growing up and only started telling some pretty bad stories and crying when he was a few days away from dying.
 
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Irishmom2 said:
My husband as a hospital corpsman in the Navy. The Marines love “Docs” as they call them.
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I was a hospital corpsman too, and yes the Marines love us docs, and we love them right back. Out of my 22 years active duty I spent right around 7 of those, including a tour in Vietnam, with the Marines.
 
“Too much revealing of what kind of person I am. Sigh…” - crenfro

Lily says: Reading that list of yours, I could hear my Mama saying, “Don’t lower yourself to the other person’s level.”
 
I’ve noticed no one is suggesting praising God.
Praise you JESUS! Glory to God Almighty!
Lord have MERCY!
Say that when you stub your toe.
 
My neighbor is a veritable font of weird swear phrases. My favorites are “That really burns my biscuits”, “I sure as sugar am not going to do that”, “What in the sweet blue blazes”, and “Geezum Crow”. But I know when she’s really upset at someone because she says “Bless your heart.”

My ancient Greek professor taught us swear words and for some reason that stuck in my brain while the 2nd aorist active conjugation eluded me, so I’m in the habit of saying "eis korakas’, which basically means “go to the crows”, and “ma ton kyna”, which is “By the dog!”.
 
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