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05 May 2020, 12:52 am

auntblabby wrote:
you couldn't for the longest time use the word "holy" on tv here in amuuuurica, unless specifically referring to a religious function. that is why rocky j. squirrel in the bullwinkle tv cartoon would say "HOKY smokes!" as "holy smokes" was deemed a sacrilegious reference to the selection of the pope.


I wonder if that's the origins of the term hokey, as in cheesy or excessively tame, since the word's meaning is basically analogous (at least way closer than either of my synonyms) to that feeling you get when you hear someone use a minced oath to replace a word that already isn't considered cursing. Hokey crickets Heroman!


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05 May 2020, 1:52 am

funeralxempire wrote:
auntblabby wrote:
you couldn't for the longest time use the word "holy" on tv here in amuuuurica, unless specifically referring to a religious function. that is why rocky j. squirrel in the bullwinkle tv cartoon would say "HOKY smokes!" as "holy smokes" was deemed a sacrilegious reference to the selection of the pope.


I wonder if that's the origins of the term hokey, as in cheesy or excessively tame, since the word's meaning is basically analogous (at least way closer than either of my synonyms) to that feeling you get when you hear someone use a minced oath to replace a word that already isn't considered cursing. Hokey crickets Heroman!

it is a minced oath of sorts. rocky wasn't the first to use it. but he seems the last to have used it on tv.