The Chief got me thinking, so I decided to post this separately, rather than steal his thunder.
Where, exactly, did this saying come from? Is it a bastardization of Jiminy Cricket? Or are the origins completely separate?
And the problem with small furry animals
in corners is that, just occasionally,
one of them’s a mongoose.
Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
I don’t know. But you know what else would be a good euphemism for “Jesus Christ”? (drumroll…) “General Questions”!
“That’s entertainment!” —Vlad the Impaler
Just imagine if as a magic wish, you could for one day have everyone unwittingly speak the real word instead of the common euphemism:
darn, drat
shucks, shoot
gosh, gosh darn
aw fudge
son of a (gun)
friggin’
You mean like, “Oh, foo!”?
It’s like darn and durn for damn. It allows uptight Christians to curse without technically doing so.
Aaaahhhhh…
Along the lines of “cheese and rice”, no?
Then he said, “That is that.”
And then he was gone.
-Dr. Seuss, * The Cat in the Hat*
An afterthought. We should come up with a euphimism so that these upright, uptight people could utter such oaths as “Fucking cocksuckers!!” Any ideas?
Fudging rockduckers.
Then he said, “That is that.”
And then he was gone.
-Dr. Seuss, * The Cat in the Hat*