Holy Heck.
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2025
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H-E-double-sippy-straws
Just like sodium and chlorine, the combination of the two is a lot milder than either half.
Instructions unclear.
I just dumped all of my NaOH into my HCl and the flask is getting really hot.
What do now?
Drop some Mentos in it.
Soup time
Remembering my chemistry professor telling us about how he went half deaf. As a young TA he had access to a brick of sodium and thought it would be a good idea to throw it into his parents pool
My dumbass was trying to combine the words lol
NaCl
It's also "heat" and "duck" combined.
Also "helicopter" and "buttock" put together
Also "helium" and "sock" put together
Back in the 80s my roommate and I tried to invent a new swear word. We settled on "cuck!" Definitely sounded dirty but meant nothing, at least to us. And I really don't think it was slang yet back then.
Full
Holy forking shirt balls.
I'm tired of all these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!
That's what you get when you fight a stranger in the Alps!
Fecking hell
Fulling heck
I'd guess that it originates from Hekkenfeldt, an old Nothern European name for Hekla (Heklufjall), an Icelandic volcano believed to be the entrance to Hell and a meeting place for witches.
the reason they don't combine into the worst no no word is because of an integer overflow
Hecking heck
Go hulk yourself!
Helk yourself fulk wad!
https://www.etymonline.com/word/heck
heck(interj.)
euphemistic alteration of hell, by 1865.
Wow, there's nothing there. That's the only info we got. I'm starting to be sold on the hell+fuck idea
Occasionally the showerthoughts here reach the quality level of the R-site.
That's heckin untrue! Some of us just like how it soooooounds!!!
Honestly, it's much more versatile:
"Heck you man, I'll heck you up so bad you'll hecking wish you hecked up and went to heck."
Oh, shove it up your heck!
Fuck works for all of those too.
duck duck duck
Mother mother duck