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Dear Yankees and fellow travelers; Down south you would be considered priggish if you exclaimed "Oh Crackey!" The southern and correct expression is "By Crackey!".
As well...
Georgia
Origin of Name: Named by James Oglethorpe for King George II
Nicknames: Peach State, Goober State, Empire State of the South and Yankee-land of the South (refer to economic leadership), Cracker State (originally a derogatory term meaning braggarts, as applied to immigrants into Georgia from the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina), Buzzard State (buzzards were once protected by law in Georgia)
Before the Braves, Atlanta had a minor league baseball team named the Atlanta Crackers.
Even today some black folk call white folk "Crackers" but it lacks bite so no one cares.
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Blasphemy was apparently in the word, not the intent.
Crikey is another euphemism
and so are whole raft of other cr- words, like criminy, and cripes ("for cripes' sake"), and probably even cow (as in "holy cow!") - all different ways of changing quickly in mid-utterance as not to be [caught - by others or self -] taking the Lord's name in vain, while still venting intense emotion...
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Dear Yankees and fellow travelers; Down south you would be considered priggish if you exclaimed "Oh Crackey!" The southern and correct expression is "By Crackey!".
milum has this right. There was a novelty song popular in the 1930's called "I Love Mountain Music":
I love mountain music,
Good old mountain music,
Played by a real hillbilly band.
When I hear that rhythm
Let me sway right with'em.
I think the melody is grand.
I've heard Hawaiians play to the tune of the wicky-wacky,
But I must say, I'd rather hear Turkey in the Straw, by Crackey...
Don't know who wrote it, but I'm fairly sure it wasn't Cole Porter.
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And I, for one, know that Cole Porter didn't write "Jimmy Crack Corn"!
Cole Porter wrote "Anything Goes" because I heard it from the ASp's mouth! And Gilbert and Sullivan did not! I sure as heck can't be accused of not learnin' a thing or two here on this illustrious board!
Beat regards,
DubDiddly
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I just came across a talking doll last week that said "Crikey". It was an Australian. (and a little frightening.)
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I just came across a talking doll last week that said "Crikey". It was an Australian. (and a little frightening.)
Hmmm, didn't know they were making a doll in my image!!  Had to get in before anyone else did ...
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I thought that skillful writers tried to avoid redundancies.Yes, but I repeat myself ...
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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