| What in tarnation do we think we're doing when we bless or ask for a blessing? |
| You stand in the way of a swarm of bats and you can expect to get horsewhipped to tarnation, boy! |
| What in tarnation is the Alaska Independence Party? |
| What in tarnation takes you way into them mountains to freezeout? |
| We went down yonder to the cement pond and I fell on a pretzel, tarnation! |
| And, holy tarnation, to get to the town of Wayne you gotta cross eleven bridges and be able to spit directly upon a scorpion from high atop yer horse. |
