what-the-hell

• “In my book When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair, I wrote about my Permitter friend Sally, whom I called my what-the-hell friend: No matter how I feel when I arrive at her house I soon find myself thinking, ‘Oh, what the hell.”

  Simon & Schuster: Women Food and God

• “Then we started walking and looked at each other like what-the-hell and laughed when we felt far enough away.”

  Fictionaut: And Her Eyes Said Something I Did Not Understand

• “When the heat got too much for her (in Alaska, mind you), she tucked her tail between her legs and ran ... or strategically retreated ... or what-the-hell ever.”

  Howard Hughes vs. the Murlocs

• “Luckily, in this case, this is less because the story was interesting and more for the "what-the-hell" - ness of hentai, but still, it annoys me.”

  CONSUME

• “But there's also an element of pure, inexplicable, what-the-hell bravado.”

  The Washington Post: In replicas of famous homes, imitation can be the sincerest form of excess

• “It languished in bottom-drawer shame, until I decided what-the-hell and submitted it without revision to Escape Pod.”

  Writer’s Block « Stephen Gaskell

• “What if someone who was Islamic, or Buddhist, or Hindu, or what-the-hell ever did such a rude, thoughtless, arrogant thing?”

  The Whore's Daughter

• “I think you've got the what-the-hell spirit of the recipe down pat.”

  STRAWBERRY TART

• “And Clinton, who had approached her early campaign with the muscular determination of a Clydesdale, seemed to have recovered a bit of the freewheeling what-the-hell attitude that had served her well in New Hampshire.”

  Simon & Schuster: Big Girls Don’t Cry

• “You want expectant silence, but not what-the-hell silence.”

  Monday, April 27 – The Bleat.

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