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From
14/03/2007 14:51:20
Mike Cole
Yellow Lab Technologies
Stanley, Iowa, United States
 
 
To
14/03/2007 14:34:19
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Forum:
Politics
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01203594
Message ID:
01203613
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How about "Holy Crap!!!" ?
>As an example of how religion tries (and manages) to insert itself into all pores of the civilization it inhabits, I've tried to find an alternative to the common exclamation of surprise. In English, that is "ohmygod", or "OMG" online.
>
>Can't find any. I actually can't remember if I ever heard any other outcry. May be a shortcoming of my memory, or there actually isn't any ("oh my goodness" doesn't count as different).
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>Even in my own language, where there actually are multiple possible expressions of surprise, more than half of them are religion... related. The mildest one would be "god spread you" (as butter or jam), often abbreviated to just "bokte" (godyou).
>
>Does anyone know at least one such expression which isn't hijacked by religion?
Very fitting: http://xkcd.com/386/
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