I say "holy moly" a lot, but "good gravy" is way cooler.
Zoe: Don't think it's a good spot, sir. She still has the advantage over us. Mal: Everyone always does. That's what makes us special.
'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Scrappy - Feb 23, 2012 7:48:42 am PST #17945 of 28266
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2012 8:13:39 am PST #17946 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I bust out with "For the love of cute and fluffy things!" to a guy who'd sidled up to me and told me an anecdote with the punchline of "and my ass is the fourth of July". I'm sure he thinks he's dealing with some sort of Polyanna syndrome.
Then again, in a project meeting he said "Well, what happens when we encounter the problem again?" and I almost snapped at him saying "That's an unduly negative tone to take! On the offchance that we should come up against this problem again, we will embrace the challenge head on, and vanquish it readily."
The business owner cracked up, but power of words, man, power of words. Cute and fluffy things indeed.
smonster - Feb 23, 2012 10:41:02 am PST #17947 of 28266
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I say "sweet fancy Moses!" fairly often. Don't remember where I got that from.
Sue - Feb 23, 2012 12:01:41 pm PST #17948 of 28266
hip deep in pie
I often say Holy Mother of God, or Mother of God when I really want to say Motherfucker.
Beverly - Feb 23, 2012 12:07:01 pm PST #17949 of 28266
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Good gravy.
Aw. My grandmother used to say that all the time. That and, "Good night nurse."
Dad: "Shoot fire and save the matches!"
Mom: "My stars and garters!"
I've become sort of attached to "Hummus on a rice cake!" It conveys the same sort of absurdist excitement, depending on delivery.
Steph L. - Feb 23, 2012 12:08:31 pm PST #17950 of 28266
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Ack. Well, I'm a dummy. I ordered Timeless, and it will be delivered tomorrow. To my office. Which is closed. Bah.
I thought I changed my Amazon preferences so that my home address was my default, but -- obviously not. I must have just ordered it really quickly and didn't even look at the address field.
At least I didn't send it to my brother.
Consuela - Feb 23, 2012 12:18:50 pm PST #17951 of 28266
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I said, "Jesus, Joseph and Mary!" in a meeting with my boss, who made a crack about being raised Catholic. Which he is, too.
At least I didn't say, "Shit, piss, and corruption!", which used to be one of my mother's more outrageous swears.
Amy - Feb 23, 2012 12:21:20 pm PST #17952 of 28266
Because books.
"Shit, piss, and corruption!",
Oh man, I like that one.
I was saying "Tartar sauce!" for a while, when the kids were little. It's surprisingly satisfying.
smonster - Feb 23, 2012 12:29:37 pm PST #17953 of 28266
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
My dad says "damnation!" and "I swanny." For real, no sense of irony, "I swanny." Or is it "swannee?"
§ ita § - Feb 23, 2012 1:06:20 pm PST #17954 of 28266
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My parents used to just not swear around us, until traffic just got too much when I was about 14 or so. One branch of our family (one of the crazy ones) swore liberally around their kids, but only in Patois, so at least when the kid went to school (in the upper class white Detroit suburb where they lived) no one had any idea what she was on about.
Way to go to not put your heart into it.