blimey

This is possibly my most over-used word at the moment.

Then our work here is done. :-)

Gimpork, but this gets my vote for one of the funniest comment exchanges on Wordie!

c.f. crikey

Sounds like a podiatrist's problem to me.

Oh, that's much better. "Gunion, why didn't I think of that?!" Wait... maybe gunnion to ensure pronunciation doesn't mirror that of union?

Or gunion for short? :-P

I think if you were saying "God impale me with a fork!" really quickly, that it might come out "Gimfork!" instead. (Or, to be tediously anal about it, "Gompalem'fork!" But that's just silly.)

Just a thought. I like "G'droponion!" myself. That's short for "God do something faintly unpleasant to me, like drop an onion on my head!"

Steven Pinker coberates oroboros's < a href="http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20071008&s=pinker100807">entymology

Ow.

Certainly a lot more painful than znoogie (God's noogie)!

More like, "if I'm lying, may God drive a small pointed object through the entirety of my body, piercing all my vital organs and killing me in a most painful and torturous manner." It's not something you say lightly. ;-)

Is that akin to "stick a fork in me, I'm done"?

That's bloody brilliant! ;-)

I'm going to invent a new one. Gimpork! God impale me with a fork! Just keeping the tradition alive.

It's so extreme, I love it. Way to go overboard there, 17th-century cursers!

"God blimey if she aint a clinker, that there bleeding tart."
Joyce, Ulysses, 12

comes from the oath "may god blind me"