Answers to my poll on cartoon/comic book character minced oaths:
- Blistering blue barnacles! – Captain Haddock from The Adventures of Tintin
- Good grief! – Charlie Brown from Peanuts
- Great Caesar’s ghost! – Perry White from Superman
- Sacré bleu! – Painter Smurf from The Smurfs
- Raskolnikov! – Boris Badenov from Rocky and Bullwinkle
- Suffering psyche! – Newton from The Mighty Hercules
- Suffering succotash! – Sylvester from Looney Tunes
Prediction: Almost everyone will know “Good grief!” and almost nobody will know “Suffering psyche!”