Re: USAGE: English adverbials 'the heck', 'the hell', etc.

Don't remember who wrote:

>>Why the dickens don't you call me?
>>Where the blazes have you been?
>>They trashed the crap out of his house.
>>They beat the daylights out of him.
Could this be similar to the "abso-fuckin'-lutely" or "enough is
e-fuckin'-nough!" phenomenon that the list has discussed before ?

Kou