I see your Australia, and I raise you Scotland.
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I am not old enough to have seen the original run, but when Lucy and Ricky went to England there was a scene with Ricky and someone comparing exclamations and they equated “blimey” and “ay yi yi yi yi.”
(Just checked online — the episode was “The Fox Hunt”.)
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Dude. I have read more about the Lia Fáil than I ever thought possible, including a number of conspiracy theories that go back centuries. I won’t bother sharing them with you. I think my eyes are no longer able to roll to any extent. I appreciate your Stone of Scone post. However, its mention makes me twitch and want to leave the room. I am scondered. (“Scundered”. It means disgusted and/or fed up. With the Stone of Scone. Not your post.)
There’s a theory (there’s ALWAYS a theory) that Great Scott was an americanisation of the Wandervogel’s greeting “Gruss Gott” (Greet God!)
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That sounds like something to say just before you kill someone. You know, like “Hello, My name is Inego Montoya…”
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You’re just creating a black market for Yikes.
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Or Struth which means “Its the truth”
edit: @SheiffFatman beat me to it.
Also, if you listen to recordings from Apollo 12 and hear Pete Conrad saying something like “Oh my goodness” thats because he had been told to tone down his normal language on the mission and had to perform a few “direct substitutions”
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I’ve never heard this theory…
“Grüß Gott” has been the default greeting in Bavaria and Austria for ages and ages and still is.
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I was using “yikes” before it went viral. 
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My only frame of reference, the twelfth Doctor, made that especially enjoyable.
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Having watched enough of In The Thick Of It I spent the entire first season expecting 'You cyberman! I thought I told you to fuck off!
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My parents knew I had gone native Minnesotan when I said “Oh-for-dumb.”
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You’re f***ing nicked, me old beauty! (It’s a fair cop)
They can take my 'Yikes!" when they pry it from my cold, dead hands.
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As a Yankee,
it’s actual!y
WOWSAH
Awww crikey,
My feelins’ is a hurtin’ now…
hot dang.
Sayin’ Yikes was only for speshill uhcashins.
Holy moly! This thread has been absolutely Jim Dandy!
Just swell!
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Stroll through cones?
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