Another word for barstool without the word stool in it.

hitmouse said:
There is comedy gold in avoiding words with innuendo possibility:
Head
Gash
Hole
Erect
Ejaculate
We
Wee
Stool
Runs
Balls
Pole
Old man
Knocker
Squirt
Specs
Helmet
Moist
Dribble
Droop
Chopper

One has to admire Herman Melville for naming one of the most famous novels in history after a sexually transmitted disease.
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How many times did you grin while typing this?
 
hitmouse said:
There is comedy gold in avoiding words with innuendo possibility:
Head
Gash
Hole
Erect
Ejaculate
We
Wee
Stool
Runs
Balls
Pole
Old man
Knocker
Squirt
Specs
Helmet
Moist
Dribble
Droop
Chopper

One has to admire Herman Melville for naming one of the most famous novels in history after a sexually transmitted disease.
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Also row :)
 

What's the view on "bad" language

I have had a couple of comments on my first book that the language deterred a few readers. My story is Urban Fantasy and one of the main protagonists is a young female and it seems that a few readers are expecting the read to be YA. I have the F-bomb a bit and even the C-bomb, when I felt it...
www.sffchronicles.com www.sffchronicles.com
 
The worst swearing I ever heard was from a curly haired blond 10 year old ish girl, looked like Shirley Temple, and asked me for 50p to put in the phone to phone home (calls were 10p). I'd been watching her doing that to other passers by as I walked along the really long straight street, and wondered what she was saying. So when I reached being asked the question, I said "no". And carried on. Goodness me, the mouth on her. I did actually phone the police when I got home, to say she was there and vulnerable, so to speak. (Before the days of mobiles.)
 
Swank said:
You know, this has been a fun thread, but were you even moderately serious about this? This is a UK website - home of spotted dick. There is nothing wrong with barstool to normal people.


Anyway, if you are talking about writing, all you have to say is "Sat down at the bar" or "pulled his seat closer." Context does all the heavy lifting, because the reader knows what kind chairs bars have. AND, it doesn't matter if they are tall stools or not to your story.
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The word "Barstool" appears in the title of the chapter. I wanted to get a feel for how people would react to it. From the reactions here it seems safe.
 
Phyrebrat said:
That’s my opinion. Also let me know if you want me to assassinate any of your readers…
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We should take this to DM, then phone calls, then burn-after-reading notes. I understand the police are nosy about such things. Though I also understand "writers" are expected to have such things in their search history etc.
 
Because a word list is simply a challenge to us writers ...


My head ached terribly. I rubbed my fingers gingerly over the gash (I admit, I don't know the naughty meaning of that one) on my temple. Cursing Sir. Humphrey for his inane driving, I climbed out of the hole and stood erect. From somewhere in the bushes I heard Sir. Humphrey ejaculate (Ok, Ok. I was giggling helplessly while I tried to write that.). We were ten hours behind schedule and I for one needed to wee badly.

A stool from the luggage sat incongruously upright in the middle of the road. Even more unbelievably, our transistor radio lay undamaged on it, tuned to some infernal cricket match. "Ten runs, two balls," some super annuated commentator was saying breathlessly. "It's come right down to the--" I threw a pole I found lying next to me and put an end to the old man's (Ok, don't know that one) ravings.

It took me half an hour to half-carry, half-drag Sir. Humphrey to the nearest house. I banged loudly on the knocker and was rewarded by a squirt of water from above. Some old bag with granny specs (Don't know that one) and wearing a helmet (nor that) leaned out the upper window holding a moist rag from which issued a dribble of dirty washing up water. "Go away you loafers. I'm watching me telly" she yelled down.

"He's hurt!" I said. I saw Sir. Humphrey's eyelids droop again. "Stay awake, Fatty!" I said to him. "Don't fall asleep Fatty," and shook him roughly by the shoulders.

That's when I heard the chopper (Don't know that one).
 
msstice said:
The word "Barstool" appears in the title of the chapter. I wanted to get a feel for how people would react to it. From the reactions here it seems safe.
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When you consider the fact that Disney got away with a popular children’s entertainment called Bedknobs and Broomsticks, I think you are probably safe.
 
Which brings us once again to Captain Pugwash and whether some of the character names were done in all innocence or not.
 
"What's so funny about Biggus D***us?"

"Why, it's a joke name. Like Sillius Soddus or Naughtius Maximus."


I really, really hope that there was a Roman called Naughtius Maximus.
 
Double entendres have been a staple of the Enhlish language (and literature and television) since at least Shakespeare's time.
 
THX1138 said:
Or they never been to a bar or saw a tv program/western movie before where there was a Bar scene.

"Take a seat at the bar," might work. Or something kind of self-explanatory perhaps?
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Are we discussing this regarding a science fiction work in progress?

Because I can see it as a serious question if the alien species doesn't walk on two legs or sit on it's behind. It would be feasible that they didn't have seats or bars on their own world, and in that case, the concept of a bar with barstools might be quite beyond them.

I don't know how you would describe a barstool in such a case, however, I think that the idea of a "waterhole" would probably transcend the Earth's culture. Larry Niven's Tales of the Draco Tavern series have stories with very alien species who still come to visit the bar, even if some don't even drink.
 
Dave said:
Are we discussing this regarding a science fiction work in progress?

Because I can see it as a serious question if the alien species doesn't walk on two legs or sit on it's behind.
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Yes S.F. work in progress, but characters in question are humans.
 
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