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Old 11 May 2008, 12:34 AM
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Icon84 Daffy Duck swears in this YouTube clip from a video game?

My bf and I were looking through YouTube for Looney Tunes... and of course we got onto the Porky Pig swearing video, which led to this.

What do you think?
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Old 11 May 2008, 12:37 AM
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It sounded like "Take that, you thtupid fop!"
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Old 11 May 2008, 01:51 AM
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I'm pretty sure he said "Nice hat, you stupid fop"

To me, it doesn't even sound close to anything resembling a you can't say that on television bit.
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Old 11 May 2008, 02:01 AM
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The "p" at the end of "fop" does have a decidedly "k"-ish quality, but that seems to me to be a product more of the harsh acoustics of the room rather than of the original recording in the game.

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ETA: And even "fok" is still one phoneme away from NSFBK-dom.
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Old 11 May 2008, 02:01 AM
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It sounds quite a lot like swearing, but far enough for plausible deniability. I'm agreeing that it was (at least officially) meant to sound like "fop".
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Old 11 May 2008, 04:32 AM
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Well it still has my bf in stitches. :P We figured it had to be another word.
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Old 11 May 2008, 10:51 AM
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I couldn't tell what "swear word" he could possibly have been supposed to be saying, or even which part or the sentence was supposed to sound like swearing. The last letter is very clearly a p, and there's an o in the middle. I assumed it was meant to sound like "sod", or that "sop" had some meaning I wasn't aware of. I still can't see how people think it sounds anything like the f-word.
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Old 11 May 2008, 07:06 PM
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To me it sounded like, "Nice hat you stupid sot."
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Old 12 May 2008, 02:45 AM
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it doesn't look like a game though... it looks like it's a 'Duck Dodgers' episode being played back on a DirecTV DVR...

and yes, I think it is a Fop (doesn't that basically mean Dumbass? so, still cussing?), but it does sound like a "k"... I think Logo is right.
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Old 12 May 2008, 04:04 AM
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Yeah, I had just never heard the word "fop" before...
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Old 12 May 2008, 12:43 PM
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I think it is a Fop (doesn't that basically mean Dumbass? so, still cussing?)
No, a fop is a dandy. He's still making fun of the hat.
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Old 12 May 2008, 03:27 PM
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I think the real question is how did Marvin get into Mickey Mouse's pants?
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Old 12 May 2008, 05:45 PM
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I think the real question is how did Marvin get into Mickey Mouse's pants?
Bought him a drink, slipped him a ruffie,.....
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Old 13 May 2008, 11:53 AM
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Great, now I have this stuck in my head:

It's fop.
Finest in the shop.
And we have some shepherd's pie peppered
With actual shepherds on top...
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Old 13 May 2008, 01:13 PM
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To me it sounded like, "Nice hat you stupid sot."
That's what I thought. I heard "fop", but with allowances for the speech impediment, my brain translated as sot.
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Old 13 May 2008, 03:30 PM
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Odd, am I the only one who heard "Nice hat you stupid schlock"?

I admit I might be wrong, because I do have serious hearing loss, and tinnitus in both ears...

Atlanta (the sirens don't help...) Jake

ETA: After reading the comments here, I went back and listened. There is definitely an "F" sound at the beginning of the word in question...
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Old 14 May 2008, 07:56 AM
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Bought him a drink, slipped him a ruffie,.....
Wouldn't he have slipped him a Mickey? Or is that too on the nose?

Gadon,
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Old 14 May 2008, 12:57 PM
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I thought he said, "stupid flop." Although, I don't know what a flop is, so fop might be better. I'm pretty sure it's a p on the end, though.
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Old 21 May 2008, 09:40 PM
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I also heard nothing even remotely close to profanity. I heard "fop" like most everyone else.
I did think it was strange that they would pick the word as fop is very old fashioned and out of date now (even when that cartoon was new it would have been an outdated term).
Whoever said a fop is a dandy is exactly right. The word fop was usually used to describe a somewhat effeminate (though still heterosexual), very fashionable man. Kind of like that whole "metrosexual" thing that went around for a few years there. A hundred years ago and more they would have been called fops and dandies.
Weird choice of words, but that's what he says.
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Old 01 June 2008, 03:47 PM
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I will have to concede it sounds like 'fop' although it doesn't sound like what the person from You Tube thinks it does.
To me it almost sounds like he called him a stupid 'fart'.
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