Idle braynes are the Diuell's playgrounde

[c_elisa]

I'm overhauling the Wikipedia article on minced oaths, for no better reason than that it needed it and I happened to have Geoffrey Hughes's Swearing: A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths, and Profanity in English on my shelf. (I also rewrote a shockingly bad article on Fakelore, so I've got a whole "things that are ersatz" theme emerging here

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[lilacsigil]

I'm totally swearing by Saynte Chyckyn now, I'll have you know.

[c_elisa]

He was a goodly friar.

[lilacsigil]

Now, that's foul.

[youngest_one]

Saint Chicken. That's the one who miraculously ran around for forty days and nights after his head was cut off and taken to Canterbury, right?

No, no, no. He's the patron saint of Kentucky.

[c_elisa]

Kentucky, Kiev, and Chinese generals.