no no, thats far too comical to be an expletive

It was about 7 or 8 in the evening, my korean friend and i were enjoying some roast beef on bread in my living room. Both of us were intertwined (respectively) in our roast beef, and thus the conversation was non-existent at best. For what must have been minutes, we sat there, staring at the spiral cut fries and burnt buns that made up our meal. This contentious boredom was soon replaced by the ever present diffusion of rational thought unto conversation. The problem was that i was hungry and not in the best mood for such a conversation, and my counterpart was not the most cunning of linguists.

"so......... are you an arby's fan now, Manny?" my friend inquired after swallowing, i paused for a few seconds (which i masked by thinking, when, in fact, i needed time to chew). i then blurted out:
"i got 2 words for you, and the second one is nope."
after a substantial pause, i heard
".....what was the first word?"
" 'hmmm' "
i felt strangely victorious at this injunction, conversation had proverbially prairie-dogged into my roast beef delirium, and just when it poked its beady little eyes out of the deep well from which it was entrenched, i hit it over the head with the whack-a-mole mallet, sending it spiraling back from whence it came.


20 seconds later i regretted my actions.