My wife and I recently watched Anne of Green Gables--part of my penance for making her watch Arrested Development when we were dating, but that's besides the point.
A week later we traveled to visit my parents, a 3.5 hour drive from our house. On the return trip my wife decided that she wanted to listen to Anne of Green Gables. So she downloaded Audible, found the audio book, and, because it was only about $1.50, she downloaded it.
Surprisingly, in the first few chapters, a central character, Marilla, "ejaculates" three times. I raised my eyebrows and glanced meaningfully at my wife--all three times.
Maybe comparing Anne of Green Gables to Arrested Development is appropriate.
My wife swiftly shot down that line of thinking. Apparently, in the last 150 years, that word has been commandeered as an almost exclusively sexual term, instead of "to exclaim something suddenly and usually forcefully."
I still think it's funny. And comparable to Arrested Development.
Shh. Don't tell my wife.
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