Zoinks!?!

     Is an exclamation used by Shaggy, from Scooby Doo, to express surprise, either good or bad.  I've not heard it used by anyone in everyday conversation, but there are several phrases that I often borrow from cartoons.  For instance, Winnie the Pooh would say he had a rumbly in his tumbly, meaning he was either hungry or had a stomach ache...  Since having colon surgery, I have quite a few rumblies in my tumbly.  And there used to be a cartoon where they were constantly chasing a pidgeon, I've forgotton the name, but I think Paul Winchell was the voice of the villian.  Anyway, the villian had a dog, named something like Mumbly or Grumbly that would grit his teeth while repeating, "Rassa-Frassa!" when he didn't get his way.  And Steve uses that one, occasionally.
     I was just checking in some of my medical supplies and found a reason to say, "Rassa-Frassa!"  I've been having a problem for a while now, and we cannot seem to come together on a solution.  Medicare pays for them, and I don't have any extra money for them, so I'm kinda at the mercy of what they send.   However, they changed they way they make them not too long ago, and now whatever adhesive they used to secure the velcro, does not stand up to washing....  Oh yeah, for those of you who didn't know, they force us to rinse our excrement from these bags and reuse them.  I don't even reuse baggies, so this was quite a shock to my otherwise indelicate system.  They give us 10 bags per month, with the idea that each bag should last 3 days.  They sometimes have to be changed 3 or 4 times per day, so that's a lot of changing.  I'm sorry for the unappetizing subject matter, so let's move on....
     Back to the subject of cartoons.... since I am disabled and sit home most days, I talk to my 3 cats and dog in cartoon voices.  I read somewhere that animals responded to higher pitched sounds that vary in tone, hence the cartoon-like voices.  Then when Steve gets home from work, I talk his arms & legs off just to be able to talk in my normal voice, and to hear someone answer. 
     There's been a lot of hubbub in the news recently about Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street, being gay.  I believe a petition was circulated and presented to the Children's Television Workshop suggesting that Bert & Ernie come out as gay characters to teach children about tolerance.  They denied, (of course), saying that the 2 iconic Sesame Street veterans are "Best Friends", as best friends sometimes live together, too. 
     I was born in 1965, and Sesame Street came on the television in 1969, so I was a prime candidate, and admit to enjoying the show as a kid.  I will also admit that I outgrew it quite soon.  It was too simplistic, and seemed to be aimed at younger kids.  Of course in the late 1960's we kids did not know what "gay" meant, nor cared, but in today's world, almost everyone knows someone who is gay, and I think teaching tolerance to children is also an important lesson....and what better way to teach it than with 2 well-loved, well-known, Sesame Street veterans that everyone, over the age of 10, thinks are gay anyway?
     Too bad we don't have some way to teach "Tolerance" to their parents......