Got euphemisms?

I was recently trying to remember when we started doing this, but for years in our household we have referred to mice as "furry friends". The term applies whether they are running around in the walls, whether they have met their ends in mousetraps, or whether they are feeders. As in, "oh, we caught another furry friend today"; "Did you give Eclipse a furry friend today?" "Check the freezer, I think we are running low on furry friends"; "Looks like our furry friends have gotten onto the countertop again". It gets a little weird when it's "Did Hoosac eat his furry friend yet?"

When I was a kid, my mom called urates "new age snake turds", because uhh, they look like a much more new age-y version of a turd? (Hmm, maybe poop is "olde worlde snake turde"...)

What are your personal terms and euphemisms?

I call my RBI racks "filing cabinets for snakes".

Wow I hope I don't get flamed for this. **Full disclosure: My son has two pet rats that I really enjoy playing with and all my rats are respected and well taken care of whether they are to be pets, breeders, or feeders**

My son(8) and I refer to rat sizes a little bit differently. I usually have him grab feeders for me out of the rack. Which is me placing an order. Here is how the last feeding went:

2 snacks (rat pups)
11 appetizers (weaned rats)
5 dinners (small rats)

Mice are "treats". We joke that the size of his full grown females would be "buffet" but none of my snakes will get that size i plan to top out at large smalls lol. (I'm sure Snowflake and Isabella are happy for that :))

Oh and for my snake rack it is a "Snake Shelf" Instead of a "Book Shelf" its a custom build out of Maple and it resembles a book shelf.

Anyone want to guess what I'm referring to when I say furry fun time?

haha

i think everyone knows my fav...

http://i.imgur.com/02ivSLs.png

Hahaha ax I just spit my smirnoff on my phone when I scrolled down and saw that big sausage lol

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Originally Posted by Kokorobosoi

Hahaha ax I just spit my smirnoff on my phone when I scrolled down and saw that big sausage lol

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hmm i think we need a BP/herp euphemism for smirnoff.

http://i.imgur.com/DpOZQpv.png

0.1 won't mate with 1.0, she finds him a total smirnoff! :rofl:

Hahahahaha

omg I started a thing!

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Originally Posted by Coluber42

0.1 won't mate with 1.0, she finds him a total smirnoff! :rofl:

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i think that smirnoff only likes 0.1 with big sausage butts.

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Hahahahaha

omg I started a thing!

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:gj:

When training people on ball pythons, I affectionately refer to the nose and heat pits as the "booplesnoot." This usually helps dial the fear factor back a bit :)

I call the snake's nose a 'snoot' (I think that term actually came from this site while I was originally doing research), which leads to him being called "cute snoot" far more often than using his full name, Mashadar.

Also, (not for ball pythons) but when I'm training birds of prey I refer to pinky mice as 'popcorn' and the bowl of warm water used to thaw out the mice out as 'the hot tub'

I often call Donuts' tub her "house" or say that when I take her out to roam, when she's done for the day she "goes back to her room" AKA slithers back over to her tub and gets in. Also I call her hides "beds" and the refer to the lid of her tub as the roof (of her house). When I upgrade her to a bigger size tub or tank and put stuff in it that she can sit on, I'll probably call those couches lol.

I also took to the habit of differentiating between Donuts (BP) and Marmalade (a BRB I had) by calling Donuts the "cutie noodle" and Marmalade the "beauty noodle." If I had a hoggie I'd call it the snooty noodle. An aggressive snake... Brutal noodle? These are just too easy!

Also, these aren't really euphemisms but I intentionally refer to her motions and postures by terms that don't really work for snakes. "She walked up to this," "she stood up really tall and looked at that," etc. I like using phrases referring to things that require feet for some reason :rofl:

bamp!

https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...%2FI2wjWFs.png

snuggie - when a snake, esp. a BP, balls itself up with just it's head or snoot poking out.

I also call racks snake shelves.

i've heard Zincubus refer to "tubs" as "rubs" alotta times. i guess it's a British euphemism b/c another did the same!: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...or-a-RUB-setup

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i've heard Zincubus refer to "tubs" as "rubs" alotta times. i guess it's a British euphemism b/c another did the same!: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...or-a-RUB-setup

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It's like calling all tissues "Kleenex". RUB (Really Useful Boxes) is a popular brand name of storage boxes in the UK, hence the reference.

When I put two animals together I have had told my young daughters that they were having a date. In hind site I think this is not the right thing to be telling little girls.