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Keep your cottonpicking hands off my beer!
That's what I'm talkin'bout.
Keep your cottonpicking hands off my beer!
Gee wilikers
Heavens to Betsey (or Murgatroid if you're Snagglepus)
Dagnabbit, now you've opened a can of worms!
Sufferin succotash, don't blame me! That started several posts back.
Speaking of succotash, my grandmother would make it, or what we knew as succotash, whenever corn was in season. We kids hated it of course because she put those damn throat choking lima beans in it! What I would give for some now!
In the movie of John Philip Sousa's life there is an episode where he plays in the South in the 1870s or 1880s, against the advice of his manager, right after another Northern band got run out of town.
He marches into the fairgrounds playing "Dixie". From the bandstand he announces the day's program. Every second number is " Dixie" and every time he says "Dixie" the crowd cheers.
From this, I took it that "Dixie" was a popular song in the South in those days.
So it seems by the 1900s "whistling Dixie" meant something everyone had heard, over and over.
I also often use the deleted expletive word "FAP" which was from the "Our Boarding House" comic strip. I rarely use the "D" word or other common curse words, and almost NEVER the "F" word. I much prefer cartoon references instead.
Zounds and Gadzooks! J
"zounds" (original pronunciation zoo- nds) is a slurring of "God's wounds". It was a sort of "oath in trivial matters", against which Pastor Faulstick would admonish his catechumens as a transgression of the Fourth Commandment, or an expression of surpise and shock.
I suspect that gadzooks has a similar origin.
So what exactly does that have to do with keeping the Sabbath?
I believe you mean the Third Commandment.