diff --git a/Simulation/ISF/ISF_Core/ISF_Services/test/TruthSvc_test.cxx b/Simulation/ISF/ISF_Core/ISF_Services/test/TruthSvc_test.cxx
index 9cfd4baa78e729a98ebfa13993122083bc309057..3b701f284acf3759a9a1f5e5a1a555804632e79d 100644
--- a/Simulation/ISF/ISF_Core/ISF_Services/test/TruthSvc_test.cxx
+++ b/Simulation/ISF/ISF_Core/ISF_Services/test/TruthSvc_test.cxx
@@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ namespace ISFTesting {
 int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
   ::testing::InitGoogleTest( &argc, argv );
 
-  // gets stuck forever while trying to finalize boost crap inside SGTools:
+  // gets stuck forever while trying to finalize boost stuff inside SGTools:
   //return RUN_ALL_TESTS();
   // skips proper finalization:
   std::quick_exit( RUN_ALL_TESTS() );
diff --git a/TileCalorimeter/TileCoolDcs/python/TileDCSDataGrabber.py b/TileCalorimeter/TileCoolDcs/python/TileDCSDataGrabber.py
index 94a7acc6332a4ea6e9bdbcd40825dfb32e012c46..31e2b8f3baa2fbba732c4eca81b2e28c7c19a43c 100755
--- a/TileCalorimeter/TileCoolDcs/python/TileDCSDataGrabber.py
+++ b/TileCalorimeter/TileCoolDcs/python/TileDCSDataGrabber.py
@@ -658,7 +658,7 @@ class TileDCSDataGrabber:
                             while stmt.NextResultRow():
                                 if   varType==self.info.type_int:    value = stmt.GetInt(   1)
                                 elif varType==self.info.type_float:  value = stmt.GetDouble(1)
-                                #=== catch crap in oracle
+                                #=== catch in oracle
                                 if value < -10000:
                                     nCrap += 1
                                     continue
@@ -683,7 +683,7 @@ class TileDCSDataGrabber:
                         if not isDebug: bar.done()
                     folderVarSetList.append(folderVarSet)
                 if nCrap > 0:
-                    logging.warning("Found %i \"crap\" entries for %s, ignored those!"%(nCrap,var))
+                    logging.warning("Found %i \"bad\" entries for %s, ignored those!"%(nCrap,var))
         return folderVarSetList
 
 
diff --git a/Tools/CoolDozer/python/RTTDozerApp.py b/Tools/CoolDozer/python/RTTDozerApp.py
index e227ec66847d5c046ccf3c132e7471320e70f013..a1eaca39d378604e605b7718bef4228f19a3de7b 100644
--- a/Tools/CoolDozer/python/RTTDozerApp.py
+++ b/Tools/CoolDozer/python/RTTDozerApp.py
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class RTTDozerApp( DozerApp ):
             
 
         else:
-            self.panic("--> db is closed, crap!")
+            self.panic("--> db is closed!")
             self.html( "Cannot open db..." )
         self.info("-> exiting reader")
         
diff --git a/Trigger/TrigCost/TrigCostPython/macros/makeGroupXML.py b/Trigger/TrigCost/TrigCostPython/macros/makeGroupXML.py
index 972806d256440e9ba55a6bc01b1d8a4e04f9b386..ea0f27c7374b4cd36b29cfe31465e69ef4b4d383 100755
--- a/Trigger/TrigCost/TrigCostPython/macros/makeGroupXML.py
+++ b/Trigger/TrigCost/TrigCostPython/macros/makeGroupXML.py
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ def MakeGroups(trig_list, level) :
     return groups
 
     
-# Fill the group list with a bunch of crap    
+# Fill the group list with a bunch of stuff    
 def MakeCumulativeGroups(group_dict) :
 
     cumu_group = dict()
diff --git a/Trigger/TrigMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/AnalysisConfig_Jpsi.h b/Trigger/TrigMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/AnalysisConfig_Jpsi.h
index 8f863bab35f7deb50c9e6479cd5a6b3b40326d63..ccca92f6a79b5c6abc519ef3f2902b15123ea998 100644
--- a/Trigger/TrigMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/AnalysisConfig_Jpsi.h
+++ b/Trigger/TrigMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/TrigIDJpsiMonitoring/AnalysisConfig_Jpsi.h
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ namespace TrigInDetAnalysis {
         std::string idChainName;
         if(chain.find("2mu4T_")     != std::string::npos) idChainName = "L2_mu4T_IDTrkNoCut";
         //if(chain.find("2mu4T_")     != std::string::npos) idChainName = "L2_muon_standalone_mu4T";
-        //if(chain.find("2mu4T_")     != std::string::npos) idChainName = "someshit";
+        //if(chain.find("2mu4T_")     != std::string::npos) idChainName = "somestuff";
         if(chain.find("2mu4_")      != std::string::npos) idChainName = "L2_mu4_IDTrkNoCut";
         if(chain.find("2mu13_")     != std::string::npos) idChainName = "L2_mu13_IDTrkNoCut";
         if(chain.find("e4_etcut_Jpsi") != std::string::npos) idChainName = "L2_e4_etcutid";