Origin of smurf

[Prancing Mad]

I'll be brief here. How come people replace swear words with the word smurf? Not that I don't like it, in fact, I love it! But I'd like to know how it came about. I mean, why not replace with some other old school characters? Like, why not "fraggle". Any ideas?

[Shoden]

Fraggle is lame and sounds old manish.

Smurf rocks and makes no sense therefore it pwns.

[Meat Puppet]

I don't like it, in fact I hate it, but I suppose it's better than all those skulls. /xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif/xxx.gif

[Leeza]

Smurf is what the swear word filters to because swearing is not permitted on this site. It's not like the people have a choice in the matter. :)

[GunbladeMaster]

<!--do u want to know where the reeaal f word came from?
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GunbladeMaster. This is not a link that is acceptable to this site. Watch what you post and link to. This is a warning. ~ Leeza

[Shoden]

Leeza, I think he means "why is it Smurf?"

[Leeza]

Because that is what Shlup suggested and most of the Staff preferred it to skulls. :cat:

[Psychotic]

When will you people learn that the s in fuck when it is censored isn't capitalised? Sometimes I think I should start a fuck education campaign.

[Rye]

It should be stick in the butt.

[Yamaneko]

It's nothing original. I've seen it at other forums too.

[Zeldy]

what the smurf :)

[Old Manus]

I preferred *arf*

[Jowy]

I preferred whoever's idea it was to change the f-bomb to "Jeff"

[Spammerman]

i like fsck

[GunbladeMaster]

FCUK
LIKE THE STORE
XD

[Destai]

I bet it was stolen from Family Guy. It went something like "Hey did you see the smurfs on smurfette?" Yeah, Smurf, I could smurf the smurf out of that smurf" or something like that. It was funny anyway.

[boris no no]

fraggles are better then smurfs ^__^
http://images.allposters.com/images/DMS/841279.jpg
http://www.pathguy.com/lectures/smurfs_smurfette.jpg

[Gnostic Yevon]

I always thought it came because on the old TV show, the smurfs would replace random words with "Smurf, Smurfing, Smurfiest" and so when people wanted to say something not so nice, they self-censored with the word "smurf".

http://www.iamlost.com/features/smurfs/commies.shtml
Papa Smurf was a Communist, apparently.

[NeoTifa]

why smurf?why not liger? what the liger?! lol (XD im a loser ignore me)

[RSL]

Yeah, it's all ShlupQuack's fault.

[NeoTifa]

how

[RSL]

I'd link you to the thread in staff but you wouldn't be able to read it.

[NeoTifa]

yea, so i think it was..... really....... the sasquatches fault!!! *points finger*

[RSL]

I suppose you could think of ShlupQuack as a sasquatch.

[NeoTifa]

XD thats mean

[RSL]

You're the one who said it!

Well, I better close this thread since it's so spammy. Shame on you guys.

[rubah]

I would like to state that the best censor of recorded messageboard history was at Watch Out For Snakes, where smurf was "tango"

as in, "go tango yourself you tangoing tangoer"

and "Tango's for two"

return to your submissive locked!thread state now.