A Quiz

In the overnight open thread at Ace of Spades HQ last night, TRex posted this quiz:

How many have my children heard me use? Probably 30 or 32:

  • Shucks
  • Rats
  • Gosh
  • Sheesh
  • Flippin
  • Ticked
  • Heck
  • Jeepers
  • Snot
  • Wing nut
  • Criminey
  • Cripes
  • Crepes
  • Good grief
  • Cotton pickin
  • Malarky
  • What the hey
  • Dagnabbit
  • Confound it
  • Great googly moogly
  • Great Caesar’s ghost
  • Geez Louise
  • Judas Priest
  • Kiss my grits
  • Heavens to Betsy
  • What the devil
  • Jumpin’ Jehosophat
  • Gee wilikers
  • Horse hockey
  • For Heaven’s sake
  • For Pete’s sake
  • For cryin’ out loud

“Great Caesar’s ghost!” because I watched the old Superman television show back in the day.
“Geez Louise” because I’m from Wisconsin, and it sounds better in the original.
And I used “Dagnabit” so much that my youngest son used it all the time when he was five or six years old.

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