# Geeminee Christmas **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 22, 1999, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894 "1999-11-22T16:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 1999, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/1 "1999-11-22T16:50:00Z")
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_ ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/2 "1999-11-23T00:47:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/3 "1999-11-23T02:00:00Z")
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’ ---
**Author:** ![NanoByte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecc23a/32.png) [@NanoByte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NanoByte)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/4 "1999-11-23T07:14:00Z")
You mean like, “Oh, foo!”? ---
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/5 "1999-11-23T14:12:00Z")
It’s like darn and durn for damn. It allows uptight Christians to curse without technically doing so. ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/6 "1999-11-23T14:15:00Z")
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\* ---
**Author:** ![galen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecc23a/32.png) [@galen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/7 "1999-11-23T14:16:00Z")
An afterthought. We should come up with a euphimism so that these upright, uptight people could utter such oaths as “Fucking cocksuckers!!” Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 1999, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/geeminee-christmas/4894/8 "1999-11-23T14:17:00Z")
Fudging rockduckers. * * * Then he said, “That is that.” And then he was gone. -Dr. Seuss, \* The Cat in the Hat\*