Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 17:08     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
See you later, alligator!
In a while, crocodile!
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 17:05     Subject: s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Finder’s keepers, Losers weepers!

Liar, liar, pants on fire!!
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 17:04     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Thundering 🌀 Typhoon!

Billions of Blistering Barnacles!
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 16:58     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Anonymous wrote:I had a friend who was the editor of city newspaper who always used to say, “Great Caesar’s ghost” when anything went wrong….


To be fair, one of his star reporters kept disappearing when there was a big story to cover.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 16:28     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
I had a friend who was the editor of city newspaper who always used to say, “Great Caesar’s ghost” when anything went wrong….
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 14:09     Subject: s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Anonymous wrote:Instead of “Jesus Christ!”, I’ve gotten into the habit of saying “cheese & crackers!”, deployed with the same amount of exasperation as the former expression.


LDS culture has a particularly strong set of syllabic parallels for swear words.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 14:06     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
put a sock in it
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 14:05     Subject: s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Instead of “Jesus Christ!”, I’ve gotten into the habit of saying “cheese & crackers!”, deployed with the same amount of exasperation as the former expression.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 13:53     Subject: s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Raining cats and dogs
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 13:49     Subject: s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
A watched pot never boils!
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 13:48     Subject: s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Beggars can’t be choosers!
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 13:47     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
My dad used to say "Holy Smokes" all the time. Often I see something now and in my mind can hear him clear as day saying that - makes me smile and miss him.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 13:06     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Anonymous wrote:I'm 55 and say so many of these (when I'm not cursing, which I do fluently). At work my go-tos are "dagnabbit" and "oh, horsefeathers" when something is going badly and 'nifty neato peachy keen' when they are good.


that is adorable
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 13:04     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
I'm 55 and say so many of these (when I'm not cursing, which I do fluently). At work my go-tos are "dagnabbit" and "oh, horsefeathers" when something is going badly and 'nifty neato peachy keen' when they are good.
Anonymous
Post 08/10/2023 12:03     Subject: Re:s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations
Anonymous wrote:Honey pie baby darlin
Oh law!
Lawsy Maude!
Well you win the plaid rabbit!



I need to know more about this one-is it an "if that don't take all/pin my ears back" sort of thing? If you just made it up my hat's off to you.