July 01, 2020 at 11:01PM

Though Wikipedia dates the oath “Sakes alive” from the 1930s to the 1950s, here it is in 1918.  Sakes alive, Wikipedia!  From Doctor Rabbit and Ki-yi Coyote by Thomas Hinkle, 1918

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July 01, 2020 at 04:02PM

I’m not sure that calling otherworldly beings “macrobes” (opposite of “microbes”) ever caught on.  From Tico Times (San Jose), via UFO Newsclipping Service, 1994.

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