"wordy goodness" Topic

there was a thread on here the last few days titled 'sculpty goodness', and recently in a news article for the olympics a journo wrote 'freedomy goodness'.

This makes me think of something, like it is a pop culture reference to something, but I can't quite remember what.

Anyone got any idea on the basis for the phrase? And what the writer is trying to imply?

And what the writer is trying to imply?

That he has a limited vocabulary?

no, (I get your joke but) he was more like having a joke, knowing he was making a play on words.

Its that using a "freedomy or sculpty" in front of goodness is putting a quality on the goodness, making an implication of something. I can't quite explain it, which is whay I was trying for feedback. It just has me curious.

creamy goodness
milky goodness

simply add a 'y' suffix to the subject and put 'goodness' after it

beery goodness
wargamey goodness

I hope it doesn't catch on.

I fear that it is too late.

The goodnessy goodness of the idea has already taken hold

Never mind, take comfort from the fact that your great nation gave the word 'winningest' to the world :)

"Oh my goodness, oh my goodness…."

Simpson's "Citizen Kane" episode where a childhood Burns loses his beloved teddy bear. When years latter its tattered head ends up in a bag of ice at the Kwiki Mart, Apu hucksters the thing to Marge and Maggie by extolling the ice as "full of heady goodness". I think that that started the meme.

Yeah, ultimately, it comes from marketing. (Something) goodness has been around for a long time. The Simpsons and others have parodied the form for years.

TMP, full of miniaturey goodness.

Not sure where the XXXy goodness as pop-cultury goodness thing originated, but the first time I became aware of it was in Buffy.

I can't remember exactly what sort of xxxy goodness it was, but it was a Buffy line. As usual Joss got there first, again I don't know if he created the phrase or had his ear closer to the ground zero of slangy goodness .

Dang. I haven't had a good Buffy-thon in far too long…

In the Buffy episode "Go Fish", Willow refers to the "chocolatey goodness" of Oreos, which may be an in-joke as Alyson Hannigan had done Oreo commercials as a child. However, the Simpsons reference Illumisar quotes is several years older.

Thanks, though I think the interesting thing is where the phrase mutated from a grammatically correct adjective-noun form (creamy goodness etc) to where folks made up new and discordant adjectives at will (sculpty goodness etc).

I seem to remember something of the kind in Buffy, but I amy be wrong. It's been a couple of years since I watched them all again.

thanks guys. Its the Buffy references I was thinking about, though I had probably heard the Simpsons one as well. I just couldn't remember, same as creamy goodness, I knew it but it didn't click. I'm doing a linguistics assignment on neologisms created during the olympics. Freedomy goodness is my fave, but I wanted to put some background to it.

I think what is saying is implying a schmaltzy sickening quality to whatever the "wordy" goodness is.

So the language is now full of Buffyey Badness?

Creamy goodness is the first one that came to my mind. A former butter commercial? Or a former commercial about butter.

Gotta beat you language experts to the punch.

JW