Stop trying to make “Yikes” happen! “Yikes” is not going to happen!
British Dennis the Menace came first, because our shops open before ones in the US do.
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Hadaway and shite.
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I refuse to give up yikes. Yikes is great. The Mastodon server I’m on even has a 
-style custom emoji for it, and it’s perfect:
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Perry White appears in the 1990s television series *Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman […] Perry was a Baby Boomer with an abiding fondness for rock and roll, particularly Elvis Presley. Instead of “Great Caesar’s ghost”, he sometimes said “Great shades of Elvis!” and the comics briefly followed suit.
But let’s go deeper.
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is “mutherfucker” still available in medium ?
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I had to check, about 1/4 and only marginally for most of that.
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I can still hear my south Buffalo Irish Catholic mother in law saying “Jesus, Mary and Holy Saint Joseph” and doing the sign of the cross every time she was shocked by something.
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Google tailors its results to each user’s unique search history.
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He thinks yikes is over…yeesh!
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‘Yikes!’ will never be over. That said:
Crikey!
Jiminy Cricket!
Great elephants!
Holy cow!/dog!/mother of god!/etc.!
Jeebers!
Yipe!
Egads!
Woah!
Holy mole!
What‽
(Z)OMG!
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And pronounced ZWOONDS back in the day, rather than the stylin’ contemporary ZOWNDS. I like busting out the anachronism in polite conversation… gets odd looks.
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Narf!
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Definitely. This thread needs more “Zoinks!”
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“Stone of Scone!”
I like this one, because it simultaneously expresses frustration.
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Mate, if you think ‘strewth’ is an Australian “expletive”, I’ve got bad fuckin’ news for you!
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(Video is cued.)
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