Oops! Did that just come out of my mouth?!

[Matt Deckard]

Gadzooks
Argh
Great Scott!
jeepers
golly
keen gear
cool beans
bedamydado

and
Heaven's to mergatroyd have been my standards.

 

[griffer]

And i think Gee-whiz was to distance the expression from the 'blasphemous' 'jeez'.

Or maybe that's just a blasphemous rumour.

 

[Girl Friday]

I said jip one time like "someone jipped me!" and an older fella told me it was a racial slur, against Gypsies. That only prompted me to start singing Cher.

 

[Folly]

Demmed nuisance is one of my absolute favourites!

I often refer to things as simply ghastly or simply hideous, much to my husband's amusement. It isn't as if they are unknown words, just unused.

I think I knew had been reading too many George MacDonald Fraser novels, when in a car I exclaimed, "Damn his eyes!" to the driver of another car, who was being obnoxious, hehe!

 

[Sunny]

I've unconsciously picked up a lot from listening to Old Time Radio!

I just realized that "louse" has completely replaced "jerk" in my internal vocabulary. Like when I'm talking back to the people in the radio shows... "You're a real louse, y'know that?" Or when driving.

A few others I use now:

lousy
swell (often ironically - "Oh, that's just swell!")
bully
gee whiz
blast
darlin' (perhaps this is Texan)
good night

I'm also having a lot of fun with old definitions to certain words. Like "stiff" and "tight" and "loaded." lol

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) no one has reacted to what I say, or write. (I use plenty on my blog and commenting on others'.) Yet.

 

[griffer]

Now do you use "lousy" in the sense that something is bad, or do you use "lousy" in the sense the something or someplace is infested.

"What a lousy chap, that Bunfriditch MacLeod!"

"Why I tell you the apartment was just lousy with rats!"

Or maybe you just mean full of licey goodness.

 

[atomicfabulous]

I've taken to saying fidilee dee (is that how it's spelled? [huh] ) after watching Gone With the Wind one too many times. Another thing I say, though not very vintage that usually crack people up, instead of Oh Poo (the "dirty" version) I say Oh, oh Sheila, like that old song: (Oh, oh Sheila, let me love you to the morning dawns).

My mother in law says "fiddlesticks," it cracks me up! I like "darling" as a pet name, for men and women, I never hear anyone use darling, not even to describe something cute...

 

[Fleur De Guerre]

Gadzooks
Argh
Great Scott!
jeepers
golly
keen gear
cool beans
bedamydado

and
Heaven's to mergatroyd have been my standards.

I use cool beans a lot too.

 

[Baggers]

Or maybe you just mean full of licey goodness.

That's chock full of licey goodness! Mmmm, tasty! lol

Cheers!

 

[LadyStardust]

I have a friend who uses the expression "What in the name of Sam Hill...?", but I'm not sure if this is old-fashioned so much as it is "country".[huh]

 

[DocBob345]

When in a real pickle, I find it wise to simply quote Yosemite Sam. You know, "galoot", "durned", "sahr-sper-illy" and the like. But being a gentleman, I stay away from "rooten-est tooten-est". Call me old-fashioned.

Best,
Robert

 

[Rosie]

My mother in law says "fiddlesticks," it cracks me up! I like "darling" as a pet name, for men and women, I never hear anyone use darling, not even to describe something cute...

I've been known of a few ocassions to say fiddlesticks.

I say copecetic (spelling?) but not very often.

I LOVE gee willickers though I never use it. I've watched many an episode of Leave it to Beaver, which I don't like very much because of their use of ther term. I know, I'm nutzoid.

I do use darling. I didn't realize that was vintage-y.

 

[Fatdutchman]

"Ain't that just darlin'?"

I use "Copacetic" ....nobody now knows what it means. I remember it from the '70's. Didn't Kojak say that a lot?

"Who loves ya, baby"

 

[photobyalan]

Well, there's "now you're cooking with gas!";

and my mother's favorite:

"Heavens to Betsy!"

 

[jamespowers]

Well, there's "now you're cooking with gas!"

Ah yes, I remember that old Daffy Duck cartoon.

Regards,

J

 

[Weston]

I've been told that all my language is out of date! I'm only 28. I'm a fan of "Holy Mackarel" among others. "Crimeney" if I'm annoyed. The eternal "Good grief" is also popular, though I tend towards "Good gravy!" if the situation is advanced (this one has caught on among others here at seminary).

My all-time favorite thing to say to those making disparaging remarks is "Hey, no comments from the Peanut Gallery!". I said this to a seminarian friend at my pastors house, and they had no idea what I was saying, but my pastor laughed.

 

[Sunny]

Now do you use "lousy" in the sense that something is bad, or do you use "lousy" in the sense the something or someplace is infested.

"What a lousy chap, that Bunfriditch MacLeod!"

"Why I tell you the apartment was just lousy with rats!"

Or maybe you just mean full of licey goodness.

HAH! I use it just as a pejorative. I've never had occasion to use it for real. Thank goodness!

Here's one that I use, gotten from my mother and grandmother: "whopper-jawed," describing something that is crooked or out of whack or alignment. I never realized it was unusual until it threw some college friends for a loop. When I tried googling it I realized I'd never even spelled it. Even with different spellings I didn't have any hits. Has anyone else even heard it?

 

[Fatdutchman]

"Whop-jawed" is common here.

"Now you're cookin' with gas"...I use that and always figured it used to be in some kind of advertising slogan...kinda like "how are you fixed for blades?"

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Us hillbillies in North Georgia said it "whompy-jawed."

 

[scotrace]

Ohio: Wopper-Jawed.