One recent afternoon, Krystle Bransky, 16, and Vinnie Fonti, 15, were taking the train to Liberty State Park from Bayonne "just for the heck of it," Krystle said.
"Raising Hope" is a far sillier concoction, and it's set in a family a notch down from the Hecks, one that Frankie would likely see as white trash.
QUESTION FROM PHYLLIS: What the heck is this fixation on condescending tone?
A reviewer admitted his temptation to dismiss the first season of Carnivàle as "too artsy and esoteric" because his lack of involvement prevented him from understanding "what the heck was going on, [which] can be a problem for a dramatic television series".
"In just three years we have come an awful long way from 'what the heck do you do with this stuff?'", he says.
Along the way we hit almost every pitfall possible and many we hadn't expected, including the speed at which the category evolved from "who the heck would wear stuff like this?" to "must-have strategic priority" for many major tech giants.
On Twitter last week, he posted, "disrespect is what has been given for 10 weeks to our team from all the media so the heck with them all!" If anybody could feel disrespected, it is Johnson, who qualified sixth for Sunday's race.
As more aurochs remains have been unearthed and more sophisticated research has been done on them, it's become clear that the Heck brothers' creation is a far cry from the original — Heck cattle are too small, their horns have the wrong shape, and the proportions of their bodies are off.
This makes everything much easier and keeps you from wondering what the heck to do with those pesky edges.
They continue their what-the-heck climb from desperation and oblivion to hope and noteworthiness.
Almost every week I receive an email from someone asking what the heck I am talking about.
