Has anyone else ever heard of the phrase 'Good Grief Rickenbacker!'?

Question

My Dad used to exclaim this as in 'oh my goodness' etc

I know Rickenbacker is a guitar and I thought my Dad had just made it up (he's a bit like that... ha ha) but I did a google search and a few people had mentioned it but no one explained why.. just thought of it as I was working and exclaimed myself 'God grief Rickenback!' and all my colleagues asked the h**l I had said.. ha ha I thought it was a well known phrase, which led me to investigate further.

Thank you

Answer 1

I've never heard it before.  

Back when your father was young (maybe before then), the Peanuts comic strip made the phrase "Good grief" famous, it was something that Charlie Brown said a lot.  Also, there was his Beagle Snoopy that often pretended to be a WWI flying ace with his doghouse as his Sopwith Camel.  "Rickenbacker" more than likely referred to the top American flyer of that war, Eddie Rickenbacker (whose biography contains a lot more than just shooting down Germans, well worth reading.)

Other than that, it's not a phrase I'd be familiar with.