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24 Apr 2025, 2:21 pm

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It's not nice when you get bullied

Great scott Holmes, how in the world did you deduce that? 8O


And who the heck is Scott anyway


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24 Apr 2025, 2:24 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Scott

TL;DR: Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and, later, US general Winfield Scott.


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24 Apr 2025, 2:26 pm

Oh right I thought it was to do with Sherlock Holmes


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24 Apr 2025, 2:29 pm

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Oh right I thought it was to do with Sherlock Holmes


Me too, I was today years old when I learned it's more associated with Doc Brown from Back To The Future.


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24 Apr 2025, 2:49 pm

It was probably a typo :lol:

Serves him right for being a smartie pants


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24 Apr 2025, 2:51 pm

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I've obtained my post-Easter discounted candy, in celebration of when Jesus turned all the rabbits to chocolate.


Praise the lord.

The most miraculous part, chocolate is a New World food, so no one even knew just how lucky they were to get to taste it 1500 years early. :nerdy:


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24 Apr 2025, 3:26 pm

babybird wrote:
It was probably a typo :lol:

Serves him right for being a smartie pants

Guilty as charged, but I shamelessly stand by my words.
""Great Scott!" is an interjection of surprise, amazement, or dismay. It is a distinctive exclamation, popular in the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, and now considered dated."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Scott
I'm not quite that old but Doctor Watson is, and as you probably noticed, that was the role I was playing when I made my playfully teasing remark. I was going to put "No s**t Sherlock," but I didn't like sounding like a young American sheeple type.



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24 Apr 2025, 3:28 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Scott

TL;DR: Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and, later, US general Winfield Scott.


Now do Gordon Bennett.


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24 Apr 2025, 3:30 pm

DuckHairback wrote:
funeralxempire wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Scott

TL;DR: Scottish author Sir Walter Scott and, later, US general Winfield Scott.


Now do Gordon Bennett.


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The expression is thought to derive either from the controversial reputation of James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841–1918), son of British-born James Gordon Bennett Sr., founder and publisher of the New York Herald, or as a minced oath, "perhaps a euphemistic substitution for gorblimey".


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24 Apr 2025, 3:34 pm

^Thanks.

But actually, thanks in particular because I'd never heard that term 'minced oath' before. I like it!


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24 Apr 2025, 3:37 pm

I can never forget Joey Deacon me


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24 Apr 2025, 3:39 pm

DuckHairback wrote:
^Thanks.

But actually, thanks in particular because I'd never heard that term 'minced oath' before. I like it!


Dang, crikey, fudge, etc.

I've never been one for mincing oaths, and always found it ironic when adults with demonstrably smaller vocabularies than I possessed as a child would trot out the swearing is just a sign of a small vocabulary canard.

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24 Apr 2025, 4:10 pm

"Minced oath" - you mean like bar steward and ruddy heck?

I noticed a while back that it's hard to find an expletive that isn't an oath or a minced oath. I thought I was safe with "tarnation" (entire nation) but then I found out it stood for "damnation." What about "Bah!" ?



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25 Apr 2025, 5:32 am

What are we supposed to call Turkey these days


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25 Apr 2025, 5:39 am

There's no way I'd go on holiday somewhere like that.


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25 Apr 2025, 5:46 am

Oh right
It's just that I've seen Turkey on the adverts but it's called something else

I don't think it's that warm today you know
I'm thinking of putting my body warmer on


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