Pass the Lord and praise the ammunition!
I’m often tempted to thank Og, but that’s only a thing here.
At home, my 6-year-old will correct both parents if we say “thank god” instead of “thank goodness.”
Heh, I thought you were joking, but you actually requested an abbreviated version. I’m honored!
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If going for dispassionate dysthymia, perhaps you could… “thank the bunch of random effluvia which caused X through a series of undefinable stochastic processes”.
There’s always that old standby: “Praise be.”
You can leave that part out, though; and thank the world instead. Or just the sun and the rain and the appleseed.
I use “Thank Dog” regularly
My response to a sneeze is “Be Healthy”
I use the German gesundheit, meaning “health.”
There really is a lot of religiousness in these phrases.
I like the Godzilla one. Oops, God is in that word.
How about yahoo or yeehaw, woo hoo?
I always say gesundheit, as my grandparents did. Originally, because that is what I learned but later because that is what I prefer.
I tend to say “thank heavens” for gratitude as it doesn’t invoke a deity but the religious seem to think it does.
Now, I just need to get others to quit telling me to “have a blessed day” instead of the “goodbye”.
“Goodbye” is from “god be with you” –
Ditto.
I know, but the connotation has mostly been lost. Have a blessed evening.
“I wouldn’t be dead for quids.”
I love this. I usually just say “Gesundheit” since it makes more sense than “bless you”…
Some one sneezes I say “get away from me” and tell them to go wash.
( The kids around here)
If you don’t Anglicize it and say “Gojira!” instead, you can leave God out of it, and refer solely to that atomic sea dragon.
I use…’Thanks to all the Gods that ever were!’
I mean, it clearly includes everybody’s God, plus I’d hate to miss any God. Just cause no one has thanked a particular God, since say, mid fifth century, doesn’t mean they should be left out, in my mind. I’d hate to miss out because I thanked the wrong God! This way, I got that covered.
I say something similar, “Thank the gods!” Heard it on Game of Thrones, and kind of liked it.
Are you sure it wasn’t an arthritis cream commercial?