Canadians, Account for Yourselves

[Billy Rygar]

Last night I went out with a couple of Canadian filmmakers and one of them was overheard saying "Everything Is Tickety-Boo."  What the fuck is this?  Is this a real phrase that people say in mixed company?

[Mupepe]

I want to hear a canadian say it in real life.  Just like I love hearing brits say "oy" 

[Madrun Badrun]

Not in Saskatchewan they don't.

[Fresh Prince]

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1. Going smoothly, doing all right. Copacetic.

2. Proceeding quickly.

This expression may have originated in Scotland, where it's the title of a popular children's song. A song called "Everything Is Tickety-Boo" was recorded by Danny Kaye as part of the film "Merry Andrew".

This expression is heard more often in Canada nowadays. May have originated in the British military. Possibly related to the Hindi expression "tickee babu", meaning "everything's alright, sir". Some people spell it "diggity boo" or "tiggity boo".
Everything is tickety-boo, tickety-boo, tickety-boo..

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tickety-boo

smh

[Shaka Khan]

"Tickety-Boo"... wow.

Sounds like something only Mrs. Featherbottom would say.

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[demi]

Add this to your robot friend arvie.

[pilonv1]

I want to hear a canadian say it in real life.  Just like I love hearing brits say "oy" 

That's "OI"

[Mupepe]

oi, now i know

[Howard Alan Treesong]

PLOT TWIST

My Canadian friend says no Canadian has said "tickety-boo" since the 1950s...

...unless they are from the Maritimes. Are your friends from the Maritimes?

[chronovore]

Of course they're covering up. "Tickety-boo" is the verbal equivalent of a groin punch.

[chronovore]

Hadta google "newfie"...

[Solo]

I have lived in Canada all 27 years of my life and Ive never heard anyone utter those words.

[Shaka Khan]

I bet those 27 years went by tickety-boo in such a fine country.

[EmCeeGrammar]

I sometimes say hunky dory ironically. Probably the same deal, someone trying to be funny.

[muckhole]

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Please note that I've never said "tickety-boo". But after seeing that video, "snicketty-poo" is definitely entering the vernacular.

EDIT: Now it's stuck in my head. 

[Stoney Mason]

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[Madrun Badrun]

I think someday I will make a Turing complete language that only uses the words "Tickety-boo", "Tickety", "boo", and the semicolon.