ferkrisesake - channeling things my Dad always said

[rurallib]

Last night I was watching the Big 10 champeenship game and found myself repeatedly saying one of my dad's favorite phrases: "for Christ's sake" although it is pronounce ferkrisesake as in "ferkrisesake tackle that guy" and "ferkrisesake that was pass interference."

Can't remember using that phrase much myself, but sure do remember that being used hundreds of times by my dad at any sorting event live or TV.

Which brings me to the question - what does "for Christ's sake really mean? Especially in a sporting context? Tackle that guy "for Christ's sake." Does Jesus have a bet on this game? Does Jesus' powers depend on this guy getting tackled.

Ferkrisesake, I need an answer

Your parents have any little gems you channel?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. My Mom used to say, "God knows." I thought it was 'God nose.'

[frogmarch]

2. My mom said

"Jiminy Christophers!" My sisters and I always got a big kick out of it. Mom didn't realize saying it was using the lord's name in vain in disguise, or she'd never have said it. My sisters and I didn't know either. We thought it was funny because she said "Christophers" instead of "Cricket."

[pinboy3niner]

3. My Irish immigrant grandmother used to say, "Oh, that's just arful!"

Usually in rererence to her Canasta hand.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. "fer crying out loud"

and
"Jesus jumping jehoseaphat" or something close to that.

My Mom's worse curse: calling something she really disliked an "ossified asshole".
I pondered that for years, growing up.

[rurallib]

5. my dad used to let an occasional

"jesus, Mary and Joseph" loose. Got the whole family in.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. You reminded me...the women in my family did not swear

aside from phrases like we mentioned.
the men in the family, did, but usually only when drinking and out of female ears. "bastard" was commonly used, preceded by many adjectives.

I got reprobation when, at age 17, I used the word "friggin".
The REAL F word was unknown when I was living at home, and did not seem to be commonly heard till the 1990's in my world.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. "Oh, Bull Donkey Dust"

As in "dad, I need a new baseball mitt"

"Oh, bull donkey dust. There's nothing wrong with the one you have"

[rurallib]

8. !

[trof]

9. The time granny said "SHIT!".

We're talking the late 1940s.
(I'm 74.)

We were having Sunday dinner at granny and grandpa's.
For reasons I am still not able to explain or understand grandpa goosed granny in the butt as she passed by him at the dining table with a bowl of mashed potatoes.
"Grabbed her ass" might be more accurate.

She shrieked "SHIT, MARVIN!", but managed to maintain control of the bowl of spuds.
I was dumbstruck.
Gobsmacked.
Did my dear sweet granny just sat "SHIT"?

My tea-totaling Women's Christian Temperance Union granny?
The granny who made grandpa keep his 'red medicine' (bourbon) on the back porch and wouldn't allow it in the house?
The granny who made me wash my mouth out with Octagon soap when she heard me say "damn"?

And she just said "SHIT!"?
She DID!

I never felt quite the same about granny's moral compass after that.

[elias49]

10. What? Your ears lap over?

This when I didn't respond fast enough.

Later, when we argued politics, it was "You talk like a man with a tissue-paper head"

He could be original.