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Lost words and phrases from just 40 or 50 yrs ago!
retroxler58
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Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
They've been publicly replaced with f'n, m'er, and the likes of other foulness.
The other day a not so elderly lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He never heard of the word, jalopy!! She knew she was old but not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included:
Don't touch that dial;
Carbon copy;
You sound like a broken record, and;
Hung out to dry.
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley!
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell?
Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!" or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.
Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those phrases gone? Long gone.
The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Fiddlesticks!
I'll see you in the funny papers.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff!
We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child, each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age.
We, at the other end of the chronological arc, have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator!
They've been publicly replaced with f'n, m'er, and the likes of other foulness.
The other day a not so elderly lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" He never heard of the word, jalopy!! She knew she was old but not that old.
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included:
Don't touch that dial;
Carbon copy;
You sound like a broken record, and;
Hung out to dry.
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley!
We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell?
Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.
Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle!" or, "This is a fine kettle of fish!" we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.
Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those phrases gone? Long gone.
The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Fiddlesticks!
I'll see you in the funny papers.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff!
We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child, each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age.
We, at the other end of the chronological arc, have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator!
Comments
As evidence, the current horrible usage "could of" and "there is many".
Flivver
PDQ
Putting on airs
Airish
Ne'er do well
lackadaisical
Behooves
LSMFT
One thing that complete mystifies people that don't know is the original reason for letters assigned to the phone numbers.
It was for what exchange or neighborhood the call was going to. Glendale and Hemlock for example. Townsend7-5309 would be 867-5309 by using the first two letters of Townsend. Glendale would be 45 and Hemlock would be 43.
Here's a couple of fun things below. The second will let you write your phone number without kids being able to figure it out unless they know the secret. Enjoy
http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/Recommended.html
Ms. Gotrocks.
I use old words when they fit. It gives Millennials fits because they have to look them up.[:p]
PDQ
Putting on airs
Airish
Ne'er do well
lackadaisical
Behooves
LSMFT
One thing that complete mystifies people that don't know is the original reason for letters assigned to the phone numbers.
It was for what exchange or neighborhood the call was going to. Glendale and Hemlock for example. Townsend7-5309 would be 867-5309 by using the first two letters of Townsend. Glendale would be 45 and Hemlock would be 43.
Here's a couple of fun things below. The second will let you write your phone number without kids being able to figure it out unless they know the secret. Enjoy
http://ourwebhome.com/TENP/Recommended.html
I remember when telephone books listed name & profession of the person to whom the number attached along with family info like number of kids.
It's funny how we have moments that make us think we're older - until we reach another milestone. My latest is this -
About 30 years ago my friend's 3 or 4 year old kid was watching TV. McHale's Navy is on, kid walks up to the TV and whacks it on the side. Asked why she's doing that & she says "broken". When we tell her the show is in black & white we get a "I don't understand" look from the kid. And I thought "this is what it's like to feel old".
So we visited recently, now that kid is 30 something and she has a 4 or 5 year old kid. The kid is looking at & pressing on pictures in a magazine. Expecting something to happen. And the Mom, our 30 years' ago TV whacker, tells her kid "it doesn't do that" when her kid can't figure out why the mag picture doesn't "open".
The difference with me now is I don't think "OK, this is about the oldest I'm going to feel". I guess there's more to come.
That was a real Doozy, retrox!
Flivver
That chick in skins was the ginchiest skirt in antsville.
Ginchiest should be a hint - [;)]
'up your nose with a rubber hose'
'sit on it'
'bet your sweet bippy'
Best - AQH
I asked the gal, she was about 30 years old, "What, do y'all send telegrams?"
She said "What are you talking about? What is a telegram?"
Then I realized the deal. Texas. Mexican workers, some even legal. Money orders wired back home.
I said "So you wire money orders Western Union?"
She said "Oh, yes that is what we do."
Gal had no idea what a telegram is.
I guess, this song would not be a hit today:
For that matter, when I was in Boy Scouts in 1965 we had to learn Morse Code. I guess that is no longer required in Boy Scouts.
CVILDERDEGOTOWZENDBUZESINARO. NOJODEMSTRUXSOMAZCOZANSUMAZDUX
What does it mean???
(See, Bill, there they go. Thousand buses in a row. No, Joe, them is
trucks. Some have cows and some has ducks)
ohhh a wise guy
nyuck nyuck nyuck
Boulder dash. [:D]
And that would be "Balder dash." Clearly you are too young to remember.[:D]
Ace, champ, sport, tiger.
Cat's pajamas, cool as a cucumber.
Gypped, hosed, burnt, busted.
Giving the business, getting waylaid.
Getting or giving the whole nine yards.
My 12 year old stopped in her tracks and looked at me. "Dad, that would be a GREAT, sales slogan!"
She thought we were going to be rich. [:)]
"Black Black, no trade back"
"Don't get your knickers' in a jam"
"Well I'll be a monkey's uncle"
"This one's for all you yahoo's out there"
"Far out man" "Groovy" "Psycodelic"
"I'm in a tizzy" "in my tin Lizzy"
"What's the uproar about"
"He knocked his block off"
"Cruisin the strip"
"We're all Bozo's on this bus"
"Hi ya toot's"
"Pansy *"
"Light in your loafer's"
"* whip"
"Mellow yellow"
"Gum shoe"
"Phone booth" "Pay phone"
"Twitter pated"
"Slow poke"
"Law Dog"
[:)]
It's all stihl U'ed.
quote:Originally posted by fideau
Boulder dash. [:D]
And that would be "Balder dash." Clearly you are too young to remember.[:D]
No, I am older than that. The original saying was "boulder dash", which means something is not worth "bird scat on a rock". It evolved into "balderdash" meaning nonsense or stupid ideas. [8D]
horse feathers
lickspittle
bootlick
(from the Brits)
dog's body
blackguard
When I was a kid, we ate in a caf? near our home quite often. On one wall was all kinds of pictures with sayings. One said:
CVILDERDEGOTOWZENDBUZESINARO. NOJODEMSTRUXSOMAZCOZANSUMAZDUX
What does it mean???
(See, Bill, there they go. Thousand buses in a row. No, Joe, them is
trucks. Some have cows and some has ducks)
Conversation between a North Carolina brother and sister:
Annette: C M ducks?
Jimmy: M R not ducks.
Annette: O S M R ducks 2. C M wings?
Jimmy: L I B, M R ducks.
Translation:
Annette: See them ducks?
Jimmy: Them are not ducks.
Annette: Oh yes them are ducks too. See them wings?
Jimmy: Well I'll be them are ducks.
quote:Originally posted by shooter10
When I was a kid, we ate in a caf? near our home quite often. On one wall was all kinds of pictures with sayings. One said:
CVILDERDEGOTOWZENDBUZESINARO. NOJODEMSTRUXSOMAZCOZANSUMAZDUX
What does it mean???
(See, Bill, there they go. Thousand buses in a row. No, Joe, them is
trucks. Some have cows and some has ducks)
Conversation between a North Carolina brother and sister:
Annette: C M ducks?
Jimmy: M R not ducks.
Annette: O S M R ducks 2. C M wings?
Jimmy: L I B, M R ducks.
Translation:
Annette: See them ducks?
Jimmy: Them are not ducks.
Annette: Oh yes them are ducks too. See them wings?
Jimmy: Well I'll be them are ducks.
I was able to read that without the translation,[:D][:D][:D]
Thanks for that,James.
ABCD...puppies
LMNO....puppies
AR2...CMPN [:D]
WYBMADIITY
I have heard many people answer Yes or No multiple times before they figure it out!
quote:Originally posted by shooter10
When I was a kid, we ate in a caf? near our home quite often. On one wall was all kinds of pictures with sayings. One said:
CVILDERDEGOTOWZENDBUZESINARO. NOJODEMSTRUXSOMAZCOZANSUMAZDUX
What does it mean???
(See, Bill, there they go. Thousand buses in a row. No, Joe, them is
trucks. Some have cows and some has ducks)