Reverse Euphemisms
Reverse Euphemisms
My Hobby: Reverse Euphemisms [Two people talking.] Cueball: Oh, hey, school just let out and it's YMCA night, so I've gotta go take a shit. Friend: What? Cueball: I mean I actually have to drop the kids off at the pool.

Euphemisms are figures of speech used in place of more offensive terms. In this comic, Cueball uses swear words in the place of benign terms, inverting the typical usage of euphemisms. To "drop the kids off at the pool" is a euphemism meaning to "go take a shit." In this case, however, Cueball actually has to drop kids off at the pool but instead uses "go take a shit." Cueball is using the euphemism in reverse , hence the title.
In the title text, the figure is waiting for a situation in which he has to see a man concerning a horse, as this relates to another euphemism meaning to urinate. It can be assumed that, when telling someone about seeing the man about the horse, he would say "...then I had to go take a piss."
This is not to be confused with the opposite of a euphemism called a dysphemism .
My Hobby: Reverse Euphemisms [Two people talking.] Cueball: Oh, hey, school just let out and it's YMCA night, so I've gotta go take a shit. Friend: What? Cueball: I mean I actually have to drop the kids off at the pool.
