Jumpin' Jehosaphat!

[Zomby Woof]

Name a cornball exclamation you have never used in your life.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Golly! and Golly Gee!

And "Well, for the life of a penny pinching Scotsman, if it ain't _____"

[SOteric]

9. Those are actually 2 of my favourites.

:7

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Ha! I should have known!

It is to be expected. Gee willickers, SOteric, you're neat!

:9

[SOteric]

28. And you're both swift and nifty!

Gadzooks!

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. And you're peachy!

Peachy keen, even!!

:yum:

:loveya: :hug:

[smbolisnch]

2. Oh Gee Golly Neds

My professor uses it all the time and I laugh every time :P

[vixengrl]

3. Oh my stars and garters!

(Actually--I like cornball expressions. I just never got to using this one.)

[Zomby Woof]

4. I like them too

The one I use is Great Googly Moogly!

[Rowdyboy]

10. I actually knew a very naive woman back in the 1980's who said

"My stars!" and "Land sakes!" She was a trip, a friend of my roomate.

[auntAgonist]

31. delete wrong place.

[Az]

5. Sufferin succotash

Although I have been tempted on occaision ;)

[Zomby Woof]

6. Ya gotta lisp it!

For that full Sylvester effect!

[jus_the_facts]

7. *ahem*

"CORNHOLE!!!" :evilgrin:

[jus_the_facts]

24. I first heard 'Jehosephat!' in an Asimov novel...in the Robot Series...

....the detective was always usin' that euphemism!! :hi:

here's a review o'that one...s'a favorite o'mine.....

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/m.hodder/robotsdawn.html

This is an important tale in the Asimov canon; the one that links the robot stories to the Foundation saga, creating one vast eon-spanning timeline. I've made it clear in other reviews of the author's later works that I'm not a big fan of his attempt to tie all his 'universes' together, but I'm happy to admit that, in this case, it works rather well. It takes a long time for this novel to become a story of any consequence - for much of its length it feels like a reworking of THE NAKED SUN (and an improvement) - but when the big picture finally clicks into place it becomes something wholly different.

Once again, plainclothes detective Elijah Baley is called away from Earth's caves of steel and thrust into the political maelstrom of the Spacer worlds. This time he's bound for Aurora, where arguments are raging over the future colonisation of the galaxy. One faction wants to isolate Earth, banning it from exploration while the Spacers expand, sending out humanoid robots to prepare new planets. The other faction insists that Earth must be allowed to join in with laying the foundations of what might one day become a galactic empire. Ostensibly, Baley is on Aurora to investigate a case of 'roboticide' - the death of a humaniform robot called Janeel, but in reality he's simply a pawn being pushed around the political chess board by these two factions. Initially, the politics only form a backdrop and don't seem particularly important to the plot. So for the first two thirds of this lengthy story, we're in familiar territory. The similarity to THE NAKED SUN would be frustrating were it not for the fact that Asimov improves upon that story immeasurably. THE ROBOTS OF DAWN is more tightly plotted, more intense, more filled with suspense and far more interesting. Baley's agoraphobia, which wasn't particularly well explored in the second book, is better realised here.

[Rowdyboy]

8. Gee Willikers!

[SarahB]

11. Okie Dokie

:silly:

[tcfrogs]

13. How about Okely Dokely?

Like Ned Flanders? :shrug:

[Cooper]

12. jimminy cricket! n/t

n/t

[Bok_Tukalo]

14. Son of a biscuit eater

<eom>

[Orangepeel]

15. "Katie bar the door"

:shrug:

[DawgHouse]

25. uh oh

I say that one all the time! And "well, I'll swear and be damned!"

[NYC Liberal]

17. "Gussy it up."

I've never, ever said that.

[EstimatedProphet]

18. Well slap my butt and call me Sally!

[montana_hazeleyes]

35. Oh, that's

funny! lol

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

19. Great Caesar's Ghost!

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

20. I use em all

Holy mackerel, how could I resist?

[Minstrel Boy]

21. "H - E - double hockey sticks!"

Is that just a Canadian thing?

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. No, we used to say it in WI

[sonicx]

23. I never used it, but I like "Great Horny Toads!"

:spank:

[DiverDave]

26. I say DANG IT! alot...

not much else.

[DawgHouse]

27. Elisabeth from Survivor, "Oh, my heck!"

When she was on Survivor (now on The View) she kept saying "Oh, my Heck!" Never heard that before.

[AwakeAtLast]

30. "Got a hitch in my git-along"

I absolutely despise that phrase! Yech!

However, it does instantly identify rednecks. :evilgrin:

[auntAgonist]

32. well fer cryin' in the sink!

Crimmeny <sp>
Geez o' Petes

[progmom]

33. Heavens to Betsy!

:hi:

[rug]

34. Ods bodkin!

[Rabrrrrrr]

37. I say that one a lot!

Ods bodkins - a tree. Daffy Duck said it.

(I think he said "a tree" - it was "a ___(something)")

[montana_hazeleyes]

36. "Kiss my money on the city hall steps"

Don't know what it means but my dad used to say it.

[NightTrain]

38. "Oh, for corn's sake!"

I don't even know :wtf: that means!

[bettyellen]

39. i could never say "oh heavens" strangely enough saying "oh dear" became a

thing to say with all these musicans i knew... LOL...
they would raise their eyebrows and purse their lips like a little old lady. knid of funny when the guys got tatoos and a shaved head!

[WMliberal]

40. this thread looks like a Col. Potter dialogue.

Horsefeathers!
Horse Hockey!
Great Caesar's Ghost!