It might be hard to tell, but that’s Scotty under all that blonde hair.

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      No, but “bejabbers,” often “sure and bejabbers,” is associated with the “silly Irishman” trope. While I don’t remember him ever saying it, that little leprechaun could say “Sure and bejabbers, they’re after me Lucky Charms!” all in the same accent.

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      I’m not OP, but “bejabbers,” while it’s a mild swearword that could be used by anyone, was often associated with the Irish, and making fun of their speech patterns.

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    as christian hegemony was most often portrayed in legacy American media, they really do have a bunch of nonsense sounding words that are technically blasphemy, it used to be a more common thing to portray before the 00s when they started letting commonly understood swearing on media

    • bejeebus
    • zounds
    • ah geez

    please shout more at my comment if you like

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        1751, in Oxford and Cambridge student slang, “a trick, jest, hoax, imposition, deception,” a word of unknown origin; it also appeared simultaneously as a transitive verb, “deceive by false pretext.” A vogue word of the early 1750s; its origin was a subject of much whimsical speculation even then. “[A]s with other and more recent words of similar introduction, the facts as to its origin appear to have been lost, even before the word became common enough to excite attention” [OED].

        THERE is a word very much in vogue with the people of taste and fashion, which, though it has not even the penumbra of a meaning, yet makes up the sum total of the wit, sense, and judgment of the aforesaid people of taste and fashion. This word is HUMBUG. [The Student, vol. II no. 2, 1751]

        https://www.etymonline.com/word/humbug

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    Did you still think Star Trek wasn’t racist even after the Ferengi were introduced in TNG?

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    If you don’t know why this is racist then you’re a Nazi, oligarch, boot licker, ummm… capitalist? I dunno. Will Wheaton is my man crush