Talk:List of expletives

Is anyone else amused by the fact that the Baron is the one who curses the most? hehe :D --mnenyver 05:26, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Seems like there should be a place for "balloon juice", but I don't think this is it. ⚙Zarchne 11:00, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and this probably should be converted to friendlier wikitext w/template, if possible (I'd also like to see the index inverted; i.e., alpha by expletive followed by a list of users with the links to the pages, but this way does have a certain charm). (And "help" may not be the best place to be putting this kind of thing, I thing there's a problem ticket feature here somewhere I need to learn to use.) ⚙Zarchne 11:15, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe use a sortable table like Cast - Volume I? Argadi 14:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I never noticed this page was using an html table. Huh. I'll fix it. --mnenyver 15:36, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

Second suggestion for sortable table; each of character, phrase, and page/date make sense as sortable fields so it should probably be three columns. ⚙Zarchne 00:47, 25 July 2008 (UTC)


 * I was just going to hack it into three columns, but then I realized the sorting wouldn't be right. This calls for a template like CastByPage with parameters expletive, character, character_sort, page_number, and page_id. That requires a little more time and thought than I have available tonight. (Never mind about the page_number, I realized that what I thought was page numbers was really just the reference number—and that if we add page_number we also need volume.  I really shouldn't be editing tonight if I thought those were page numbers.) Argadi 01:14, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

What should the default sort be? (That is, the sort that is hand-edited into the data.) I think it should be whatever makes editing easier, but I'm not sure what that is. Argadi 08:22, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Looking good! It could go any way... have a slight preference for page id (because when you're adding in a new one that's the most important bit), and lexicons are usually published in alphabetical order, but maybe we should respect the initial author and go with character (and make that column first in the table).  ⚙Zarchne 02:44, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Does "pull the rip panel" count as an expletive? Isn't it more like "pull my other leg"? or "Gimme a break"?

Altgorl 07:31, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Would not count as an expletive? --Oarboar 16:33, 15 July 2009 (UTC)


 * No, because we haven't even a splinter of a Rosetta Stone to know even what position in the sentence that word takes. No definition, no expletive.  Thank you for considering it, though - it was a good question. -- Corgi 00:52, 16 July 2009 (UTC)