Coining a Phrase

While reading an article in Uncut magazine's July issue about the Scottish rock group "The 1990's", I laughed out loud when I read the follow quote from the band's Jamie McMorrow - "I just told my mum I was going to Brazil... she was flabbergasted. In fact, I think she gasted away all her flabber."

First time I have ever heard that phrase - and probably something I will begin to incorporate into my vocabulary. Love it.

On a related note, when I was but a wee lad (can you be a wee lad growing up in Southern California - or is that reserved for Europeans?), and learning to read, can you guess the first multi-syllable word that I successfully pronounced phonetically, while amazing myself and parents? Believe it or not - "flabbergasted".

Perhaps that's why the decomposition of the word caught my attention. Don't let it gast your flabber. I like that!