Euphemisms for Death.
Roget's Thesaurus
(from
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html)
die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more &c. adj.; go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one, pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death.
Technical Writers’ Euphemisms for Death
(from
http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~bof/Death/euphemisms.html)
* Lost in translation.
* Widowed and orphaned.
* Formatted with black borders.
* Moved into upper management.
* Went on-line.
* Deleted from the BOM.
* Permanently Out of Print.
* Printed white-on-white.
* Remaindered.
* Mailed in his/her warranty card.
* Collapsed his/her outline.
* Was struck out by the Big Blue Pencil.
* Inspired a new Warning message.
Programmer Euphemisms for Death
(from
http://mahonri.anu.edu.au/humour/0035.html)
* Kicked the bit bucket
* Reformatted by God
* Taken out of production
* Bought the disk farm
* Exported to a flat file
* Cached in his chips
* Information Superhighway roadkill
* Gone to the big glass house in the sky
* Sent to the dirt archives
* Had his 80-column card punched
Julia Child Euphemisms for Death
(from
http://www.samurai.com/lists/bryans-list-1998/0076.html)
* Pushin' Up Parsley
* Put in the Crisper
* Fettucine Al Dead-o
* Has Reservations at the Chateau Eternity
* Sleeping with the Quiches
* Filleting the Soul
* Face-Planting the Meringue
* Basting the Formaldehyde Turkey
* Donating the Liver Pate
* Peasant Under Grass
* Marinating in Soil and Worms
* Promoted to Subterranean Truffle Inspector
* Just Add Maggots
* Sampling the French Onion Soup with a Salmonella Spoon
* Cooking for the Kennedys
* Slowly Cooling to Room Temperature
The Top 13 Internet Euphemisms for Death
(from
http://wallofjokes.hypermart.net/Computer/Internet_Euphemisms_Death.html)
* Clicked the bucket
*
www.he's-dead,-jim.com
* Invested in Pointcast
* Visiting the Chat Tomb
* No longer able to view the web's hottest women
* </life>
* Opened "GOOD TIMES!"
* Transferred to
WWW.HasBecome.Com/post * 404ever, Pulse Not Found
* .Installed the Kevorkian Plug-n-Play
*
www.MyFirstCoronary.com * Assigned to the Hale Bopp Project
* It Doesn't Matter Whether You've Got Mail
Writers euphemisms for death
(from
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa896/Front_Door/Group/Musings.html)
* Made the big deadline.
* Taking minutes for the Maker.
* Went to that big spelling checker in the sky.
* "Lateral mobility."
* The final Edit.
* The eternal offsite assignment.
* Documented the Big D.
* Very, very passive voice.
* Reformatted.
* An improvement over technical writing.
The Top Five Sports Euphemisms for Death
(from
http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5101599.shtml)
* Winning one for the Reaper
* Married to OJ
* He scores! He shoots! He OD's!
* Traded to the Angels
* Got some SkyBox tickets
* Showing St. Peter her sports bra
* Did... go... all... the... way!
* On the unable to breathe list
* Riding the perma-pine
* Tailgating with Jesus
* Taking a congratulatory phone call from President Taft
* Jockeying for position in the dirt derby
* Went to see the fat lady in concert
* Created an opening on shuffleboard court three
* *Really* stuck her dismount
The Top 12 Star Trek Euphemisms for Death
(from
http://www.topfive.com/arcs/t5061699.shtml)
* Taking Acting Lessons from Shatner
* Sleeps with the Tribbles
* Zeroing out the Tricorder
* Pulling a Spock Without a Planet Genesis to Back It Up
* Boldly Going, Going, Gone
* Beam Me Up, God-y!
* On Permanent Holodeck Duty
* Transferred to the U.S.S. Oblivion
* Achieving Warp Zero
* Doing the Vulcan Ground Meld
* Inducing a phase variance in the isolinear array to contain the tachyon particle overload, if you know what I mean.
* Visiting Shatner's Hair
