Why I love Kristen

FallinAgain · October 2009

She uses words like "shart" and "poot" and "wench." She's like JaneHunter that way without the Scarlet O'Hara vibe

FallinAgain · October 2009

"toots" not "poots."

KristenBtobe · October 2009

Aw, thanks. I am making an effort to clean up my vocabulary get rid of words like fart because I don't want Maggie to talk that way. I used the word toot in front of my nephew and he didn't know what it meant. Sad, really.

FallinAgain · October 2009

Now I have to ask: what makes fart bad? Or at least worse than toot when talking abouth the same event?

KristenBtobe · October 2009

I guess it's just an old fashioned idiosyncrasy of mine. I think it's a hard, ugly word coming out of a kid's mouth. Like butt. I'd rather call it a fanny or hiney or behind. Can't avoid talking about these things with children so I'd rather them use a more polite or soft word if possible.

KristenBtobe · October 2009

Cali, I saw a story on NBC nightly last night about an equestrian program in Compton. It made me smile.

FallinAgain · October 2009

Hiney makes me giggle.

CaliopeSpidrman · October 2009

When I was in 4th grade, I got in trouble if I said "sucks" as in "that sucks". Obviously I kept saying it around my friends, but I learned not to use it in front of my parents. I think it helped me learn to censor myself when in certain company.

KristenBtobe · October 2009

That's another good reason to use those words, they sound funnier than plain ol' butt or fart anyway.

ftnups · October 2009

I am riding in Kristen's horse and buggy. "Butt" was NOT allowed when I was growing up. Add "shut up" to the list but I'm assuming that is on everyone's list. Right?Confession: when I'm reading Pajamatime to Matt at bedtime I always change "ugliest" to "goofiest."

ftnups · October 2009

PS "sucks" was also not allowed in our household.

buddhagouda · October 2009

One of my friend's moms used to lecture us that saying things like freakin' and shoot were just as bad as saying the real word. Oh the fun we had sayint the real words and disguising them as other words.

FallinAgain · October 2009

In elem school, a friend wrote "To a little fart" in my yearbook. I was HTembarrassed so I thought I'd be all smart and turn it into "fam" by writing over the "rt." didn't consider that "fam" isn't a word and I'd be asked repeatedly what it meant. sigh.

KristenBtobe · October 2009

I'm sure I had a really long list. Sucks, butt, shut up, oh my God, any swear word (natch), poop (I had to call it BM), gay or retard, calling someone stupid or dumb...

MadameS · October 2009

I like fannie and bottom. They're more fun to say.And I like toot, but when a kid says she "passed gas"...oh! Be still, my heart.

ftnups · October 2009

Kristen, are we related? My sister and I still like to tell the story about when I told her she had a big butt. I think we were maybe 6? 7? She told on me and my parents called me down the hall and made me tell them what I said to her.A great deal of long, drawn out crying and anxiety ensued until finally I blurted out a sobbing "I SAID SHE HAD A BIG B-U-T!!!" It was so ridiculous at that point that my parents just made me leave so they could laugh at me. And my spelling.

shanollee · October 2009

My mom always said hiney, and my grandma said bohiney (which always made me giggle) and also fanny, but only in the context of "I'ma bust yer fanny!" if we didn't stop doing whatever it is we were doing Fact: using the word fanny in New Zealand does not have the same meaning as when we use it here. I learned that while over there for a student ambassador trip when I was 13

CaliopeSpidrman · October 2009

You had yearbooks in grade school?

FallinAgain · October 2009

"Butt" was NOT allowed when I was growing up. Add "shut up" to the list but I'm assuming that is on everyone's list. Context matters for me. I don't mind butt as long as it is in the context of "my butt itches" and not "kiss my butt." "Shut up" disrespectful if it means "stop talking" but I'd let it pass in the Stacy London from What Not Wear Way way of expressing excitement. Of course, tiny kids can't discern the difference.

MadameS · October 2009

What did you guys have to call your lady business? My mom never gave me any terminology to use. But now that I'm all grown up I like to use Lady Business, ChaCha, Chach, My Peachy- but only in drunkin' girls' nights out.

.MrsBailey. · October 2009

At the grocery store last week a mother told her daughter to stop acting retarded and then in the parking lot I heard a guy say to a little boy don't be gay. It made me sad for the kids.

katie.i.do · October 2009

i once intentionally misspelled 'shoot' as 'shot' on a thanksgiving themed vocabulary list because I felt like it was too close to swearing.

FallinAgain · October 2009

We did, Cali. I still won't say "Oh my God" in front of my mom (and it's ingrained enough that I feel bad saying it at all). I do remember trying to convince her that I meant "omigod" and that wasn't taking the LOrd's name in vain. She = unconvinced. My grandma wouldn't say "bad words" but would say "pppshhhhttt" which was the equivalent of "Shiit" and that was funny to me.

CaliopeSpidrman · October 2009

I still remember the one time my mother swore in front of me. ONE TIME. She couldn't find her car keys and was running late and stressed out and she just let out, "Shiit shiit shiit!" I also remember the one time my mother lied to me (that I was aware of). My kids won't be able to say the same about me.

wendyld · October 2009

Add me to the Toots Come From Your Bottom train. We haven't adressed girl parts, but I prefer peepee for now with Connor and he says "I poo poo" when he needs to go. I'm not a fan of totally made up words (see Bobo and shooshoo that MIL keeps pushing even with my objections). It's a fine line.

wingedbride · October 2009

My grandpa made a gutteral noise that almost sounds like "uh uh" for lady business. I will use that in the future.I have a terrible terrible potty mouth. It is something I am going to have to work on.

noisy_penguin · October 2009

I'm on the toots and bottom train as well.At the grocery store last week a mother told her daughter to stop acting retarded and then in the parking lot I heard a guy say to a little boy don't be gay.We ate lunch at a pizza place out in rural San Diego County last weekend after apple picking. There was a group there and they had two tables, one with a mom, two girls, and a little boy, and the other with two men an older boy, and a baby boy. The two men were giving the little boy at the girls table serious shiit for sitting with the girls, and talking about how next thing he'd be singing showtunes and flopping his weak wrist around and talking with a lisp. The boy was maybe five. And eventually they made him sit with the boys. "Just in case."

KristenBtobe · October 2009

I think I called my lady parts my crotch. I still hate that word. Maybe it was privates. We didn't talk about it a lot. I haven't landed on what we'll use, vagina is probably the most appropriate but I also don't like that word.

FallinAgain · October 2009

Dude, Noisy. That is horrible.

noisy_penguin · October 2009

I was outright staring at them with my mouth hanging open at one point, and said to Lorne, "You know, I'd be more inclined to think that my son was gay if he only hung out with boys." I don't think they heard me though.

AngieP900 · October 2009

My nonna used to call butt "coolie" and my mom called fartys "poofada". Poofada still makes me chuckle.

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