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Intentional bits of my vocabulary:
Current:

• jeepers!
  This Shaggy-ism made its way into my vocabulary after Buffy muttered it one episode.
• Jimminy Cricket!
  My own personal blasphemy; I'm not sure when it appeared, but was definitely recently--within the last year. I can't bring myself to say JESUS CHRIST!
• Jeez-o-Petes!
  My father in law says this and I think it's so awesome, I started saying it.
• Ahhhhh... mercy.
  Because we all need a bit of Skinner.

Used to figure prominently:

• Zang!
  An expression of positive agreement roughly translated as "Excellent." I haven't used it in a couple years.
• Three-note Hawkeye whistle(wav)
  Every time I watch M*A*S*H, this comes back into my vocabulary for a couple weeks.

I mention all these because I've found a new word I want to assimilate. Watching A&E's brilliant Nero Wolfe series, I'm enamored of his use of Fooey! It's a term of exasperation that's startling and awesome--both angry and quaint at the same time. The biggest challenge is that I'm rarely exasperated enough to shout "FOOEY!"

Posted by briley at February 27, 2006 12:53 PM