No, the title is not a typo. It is a phrase I hear many, many times every day from both my children. It is the current iteration in an evolving string of exclamatory statements that has gone like this:
- "phooey!" - taken from Donald Duck on Mickey Mouse clubhouse
- "oh phooey!" - used when "phooey!" just wasn't quite emphatic enough
- "suffering bilge rats!" - taken from Captain Hook on Jake and the Neverland Pirates
- "oh rats!" - used when the the phrase above was too long
- "oh phooey ratatouille!" - how the above phrases were originally combined
- "oh phooey rats!" - the inevitable shortening of the above phrase
...and because that apparently was not short enough we know have:
- "oh phrats!!" or just "phrats!!"
an illustration of the evolution of language right in my own home!
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