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Oh. My. God.

I mostly say "Oh my gods." instead, since zero is grammatically plural (think "Yes, we have no bananas." or "I have no gods.").

Do you do this?

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on July 6, 2009 at 8:47am

I used to always think that people who said "Oh my gosh!" were theists trying to be "nice", and not swear. My awareness has been expanded!

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Permalink Reply by AcesLucky on July 3, 2009 at 3:04pm

I say "son of a bitch", sometimes with the f word before bitch.

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Permalink Reply by Sentient Biped on July 6, 2009 at 11:13pm

FInally, here's someone who I understand!

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Permalink Reply by Jezzy on July 6, 2009 at 12:29am

I like to say "Oh your God" (Futurama <3). Of course, that only works with religious people, and hopefully ones with a sense of humor.

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Permalink Reply by Jim C. on July 6, 2009 at 11:17am

I yell out, "Godfrey Daniels, Doctor Beebee and Billy Truman!"

Thank WC Fields for that one. :)

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Permalink Reply by Rev Hellbound Alleee on July 6, 2009 at 9:50pm

Oh my "Bob," "Praise Bob" "Bob Damnit!"

I'm a Subgenius, and no, the world didn't end yesterday. Bob screwed us again. Pra'Bob.

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Permalink Reply by Timothy W. Brown on July 7, 2009 at 4:44am

I say "oh my god".

Most Christians do this too, and that breaks their sacred 10 Commandments. I say it just for that reason.

Hippocracy is a hell of a thing.

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Permalink Reply by FCoNicaea325 on June 8, 2010 at 10:47pm

Funny though, as the meaning of that commandment is most definitely askew from it's original meaning

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on July 7, 2009 at 6:46am

I'm French, but I often swears in English or Frenglish.

My fave is "Oh my gode". It sounds exactly like "Oh my God", but of course the meaning is quite different, as gode is French for dildo.

I also often use "Beep" when there are American people around. They usually reply something like "I've never heard a Frenchman swear like this". I reply that, as a foreigner, my knowledge of American culture mostly comes from TV shows, where "beep" is by far the most common swear word. "What the beep", "beep you", "go beep yourself", "you beeping bitch", it allows for infinite variations.

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Permalink Reply by Little Name Atheist on July 7, 2009 at 11:39am

hahaha! Brilliant! One of the funniest collisions of cross-cultural exchange/censorship I think I've ever seen.

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Permalink Reply by Sue B on July 7, 2009 at 4:36pm

Love it, my new swear!

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Permalink Reply by IAmTheBlog on July 24, 2009 at 2:40pm

That's funny, Jaume, about both "gode" and also "beep". It's true in the US they can show someone getting murdered on TV, but they can't allow swearing I guess.

My favorite is that sometimes when a person in a movie or show will say "God damn", the censors will bleep out the word "God" and leave in the word "damn". So I claim that they take out "God" because it is too offensive.

As for what I say when I swear, I almost never do in English around people (probably from my religious upbringing as a kid), but to myself I often say "god in hell" or "oh my god in hell". I've never heard anyone else say these I don't think, so I don't know where I got that from.