Agnostics need an "exclamation word", just as some Christians can cry out "God! That was great"
Therefore I propose the word "Santa", as in "Santa! That was great"
"goodness me!" or "good grief!" - depending. also "faaaark!", "far east!" & "fuck that!" or "fuckin hell!". you see, i'm rather outspoken (learnt from aussies).
@frayedbear has a lot of explaining to do!
@Petter I didn't teach her those words. In fact I got so fed up at the guys at the panel beating shop across the road using fuck on everything that I would pick up a hammer and ask them to put their thumb on the concrete floor so that I could hammer it and discover what word they used when they really needed an expletive! The whimps never did.
@Petter And why are you automatically blaming me. @walklightly I have never met and only once or twice spoken to by phone.
@FrayedBear, i think he (Petter) does that to you because you react so beautifully ?
Jiminy Crickets works for me.
. That's an ancient expression; how old did you day you were? ??
@Petter hey! Avast with the "old" shit!
@AnneWimsey OY!
@Petter nostalgia - it's good for you.
I say 'Oh knickers'
I use fuck. (Oh my fuck! OMF!) I don't believe in a god, but i do believe in a fuck.
When i tried to stop using profanity, i used schmeg and smurf (from red dwarf & the smurfs) with E-gad! as my exclamatory interjection.
I'm just back to saying fuck mostly although my daughter asked why i say 'holy smokes' -- i hadn't noticed it becoming a part of my vernacular.