Thanks for the quotes, Jim. I'd never seen a Roman numberal j before.

"The value of J as a Roman numeral was the same as I (1) but it was used on handwritten documents to prevent alteration. For example, the number 6 (VI) could be written as VJ and 7 as VIJ to prevent either from being changed to VIII."

I was wondering why soldiers would exclaim "Honey Pears!" and it occurred to me that very few of the things we exclaim actually make any sense. For example:

Holy moley!
My goodness!
Honestly!
Well, well, well!

None of them mean a thing, really.