Fleas, camels and parking tickets

Interesting history as to where you got that 'curse' from. I remember you saying it in your discussion about hackers. Where I used to live I got fed up with cars parking in my space, so I concocted up an official looking letter which I left on the windscreen saying, if you park here again, you will be fined £200, this is private parking. Seemed to do the trick.

I saw that for the first time in some mail order catalogue or other a long time ago. Can't remember the exact one but they sell gag gifts and one of the things they sell is that fake parking ticket. I always thought it was cute but, when I come across a parking space hog, if I'm going to give them something that is fake, I'd much rather put a fake "scratch" down the side of their car, you know, like a vinyl stick-on thingie. REALLY freak 'em out.

My erstwhile hubby got one of those tickets but I don't remember the wording either. As for the fleas... I remember Klinger saying it on M*A*S*H, but I think it predates that.

First time I remember hearing that curse was in a Johnny Carson routine on the Night Show. But it is one of those that is memorable and worth using. I'm disabled and I may borrow your father's idea about the parking ticket. I cannot tell you how many times I've wanted to do something on my own about people parking in handicapped designated spaces when there has been tons of available parking for them to use. Especially teenagers who seem to think it is funny and laugh when a person with a cane, or in a wheelchair is inconvenienced by their selfish act. I also "invent" words and phrases for things rather than the normal cuss words. My favorite is "gritch," a combination of gripe and of course the all time favorite female dog name. I use it with people who are notorious for half a** jobs of complaining constantly about nothing that truly matters. They are gritching!!! Thanks for the discussion!

Too bad we couldn't make it happen if we really wanted to.. that would be quite an unpleasant experience!

... and with that, one of the mysteries of the universe has been solved!!! i'm going to make it a personal mission to use this insult as much as i can from this point forward! and with that, let me bid you goodbye with may the fleas of a thousan... cheers and happy mylotting dawnald!!!

I like it. It is so much more descriptive than the typical swear word laden comment. And you will not get bleeped for it. I wonder, having been to a small zoo today, if the fleas of a thousand camels are anything like the gnats of a resting llama. It is not even hot, but the "barnyard animals" were often surrounded by clouds of hovering no seeums.

An oldie but a goodie... I sure can't remember when I first heard/read it, but its right up there with the Bird of Paradise one...

I can't remember which discussion you used that curse. Just now I read those words your mention

Where I first heard it was a favorite comic said it one times years ago. Don't remember which one. It is a good one.

Our guys have more vulgar things to say....like in the west and many parts of our country ...being addressed as a mother is considered to be respecting the woman. But out here in my state...if a woman is addressed as a mother..it imports a bad meaning...that woman had secsual relation with the parent of the person mouthing such stuff...horrid thing. Completely reducing motherhood to secsual stuff..so it becomes a bit difficult to understand the implied insults out here..unless you have stayed here for long.

So, that's where you got it! It's very effective though. It makes anybody who hears it/or reads it go 'Eeww!'. That parking ticket is a good idea. I've seen a few people around here near where I work park un-imaginatively, without consideration for others. Maybe a ticket like this, on their windshields could get them flapping their arms up!

Hilarious that you should post this discussion today. I went to the Department of Human Services this morning and as I was looking for a spot, I noticed an available one but the car on the right to it was sideways making it impossible to get in there. I almost wanted smack the person who did that should I have seen who owns it walk up to the vehicle.

I have never heard this insult until now. Good for who ever wrote that up though it is pretty funny sounding. I bet they got a scare while looking at their wind shield before picking up that ticket.

I have heard it on the old movies that play on AMC and TMC

It's a goodie. I found a spectacular website a while ago where people could post pictures of other people's bad parking. Some had also posted photos of the notes they had left the drivers. Absolutely hysterical :) Wish I could remember what it was called.

How funny. I really wish that you did still have the fake parking ticket and that you were able to share a photo of the fake parking ticket because it is something that I believe I would be able to make good use of when I go out to do my shopping. It definitely does seem to me that there are more people in our area that are unable to park in a single parking spot than there are people that are actually able to use just one parking spot when they are out at the store.