Well lets go for broke then. 'Oh my heck' is really a code phrase that indicates you accept someone else's total superiority over you, green jello with shredded carrots is actually manna and if you eat enough in your lifetime you will develop the ability to teleport to other planets, and the cape of Frome is burried underneath that stupid seagull monument. Now I must go and read the paper plates without my glasses on to attone for revealing this. :)
Bwahahaha! My husband told me all about the green jello and 'oh my heck' before we married. Then I visited his family in Utah and I'll be darned if it wasn't true! They're not Mormons...just wonderful folks who love Utah and green jello. :o)
Anyway, I'm a primary teacher, and one day during "sharing time" one of the counselors--a girl from some podunk Utah town--responded to a funny quip from one of the primary kids by breaking down laughing, and saying "Oh My Heck!"
I burst out laughing myself, and had to explain to her later what was so funny. It had never occurred to her that there was anything unusual about the phrase!
But my favorite "pokin' fun at Utah Saints" story is about a young mother whose family I "home taught." She told me that shortly after she moved here to Texas some neighbors invited her to the big Fourth of July blow-out we have in our community. She and her kids went, and enjoyed the food, festivities and especially the big fireworks finale.
She turned to her neighbor and said "Wow, if this is what you all do for the FOURTH, I can only IMAGINE what it must be like on the TWENTY-FOURTH!"
Her neighbor's puzzled look told her something had been lost in the translation, and it wasn't until later (say, about twenty DAYS later) that she came to understand that whereas in UTAH, Pioneer Day is THE big summer festival, the REST of the country kinda favors Independence Day!