When I grew up, GD it or JC! were hit-your-thumb-with-a-hammer type exclamations. Not to be used in casual conversation, but acceptable under provocation. Oddly, I try not to use them (& more extreme forms now), not because I'm religious--I'm not, I'm an atheist and it just seems silly to swear by a Deity I don't believe in. I've recently picked up,"For all love!" from Patrick O"Brian's novels & find it useful if said forcefully enough. (Besides, it makes me think of Stephen Maturin, which makes me smile.) "Will you two stop fighting and go outside, for all love!" My kids have picked up 'smeggin' from Red Dwarf, & Kid#1 uses some of the oddest phrases from Jeeves & Wooster. Calls Kid#2 a blithering twit and a blister. He's not your everyday 14yr old.
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Date: 2006-01-25 06:42 am (UTC)Oddly, I try not to use them (& more extreme forms now), not because I'm religious--I'm not, I'm an atheist and it just seems silly to swear by a Deity I don't believe in.
I've recently picked up,"For all love!" from Patrick O"Brian's novels & find it useful if said forcefully enough. (Besides, it makes me think of Stephen Maturin, which makes me smile.)
"Will you two stop fighting and go outside, for all love!"
My kids have picked up 'smeggin' from Red Dwarf, & Kid#1 uses some of the oddest phrases from Jeeves & Wooster. Calls Kid#2 a blithering twit and a blister. He's not your everyday 14yr old.
Naomi