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Lost words and phrases from just 40 or 50 yrs ago!
Fine as frog hair and not half as dusty.........useless as tits on a boar hog .......bats in the belfry ......ugly as a mud fence ... not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree
Eenie meenie minie moe.....I remember what we caught by the toe, and it wasn't a tiger. We know that when you take the cake out of the oven it's still bubblin & makes the sound, EEEWOUW
Worked like a borried (borrowed) mule. Hang on a cotton pickin' minute. Queer as a $2 bill. I wonder how many young DJ's don't know what the letters stand for? Lock, stock, & barrel is still in use sometimes but how many don't know what it originally meant? Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.
I used to recruit for the NRA until they sold us down the river (again!) in Heller v. DC. See my auctions (if any) under username henryreilly
Although always described as a cowboy, Roswellnative generally acts as a righter of wrongs or bodyguard of some sort, where he excels thanks to his resourcefulness and incredible gun prowesses.
59 years young and use a lot of those still. My four offspring picked up many of my idioms and now use them as well. They range in age from 35 to 24. Their friends think they are a hoot. Lol and OMG!
Coal oil, lamp oil, clutch, milkman, queer as football bat.
Note, worthless as tits on a boar hog may not be true, a midwest hog farmer told me when the farmers were looking for a premium boar they looked for one with the most *. The boar determined how many * his offspring has, More *=more piglets .
18 hour bra.... Jane Russell tv dinners.... 10 cent coke bottle machine...... returnable pop bottles in 8 pack carton...... cans with pull tabs..... banana seats bicycles....... Marbon co. esso co. returnable milk bottles. or even paper carton 1/2 gallon milk, or 2 stapled together to make gallon
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We know that when you take the cake out of the oven it's still bubblin & makes the sound, EEEWOUW
tape recorder
timing light
oil can
rabbit ears
Hand me the clicker
Hang on a cotton pickin' minute.
Queer as a $2 bill.
I wonder how many young DJ's don't know what the letters stand for?
Lock, stock, & barrel is still in use sometimes but how many don't know what it originally meant?
Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.
"It aint the end of the world but you can see it from there with a good pair of binoculars."
59 years young and use a lot of those still. My four offspring picked up many of my idioms and now use them as well. They range in age from 35 to 24. Their friends think they are a hoot. Lol and OMG!
Dagnabbit
18 hour bra.... Jane Russell
tv dinners....
10 cent coke bottle machine......
returnable pop bottles in 8 pack carton......
cans with pull tabs.....
banana seats bicycles.......
Marbon co.
esso co.
returnable milk bottles. or even paper carton 1/2 gallon milk, or 2 stapled together to make gallon