Where have all those sayings gone?
Sep 17, 2016 09:07:57 #
Sep 17, 2016 09:33:44 #
GENorkus wrote:
Speaking of "Duckfart", what about "Oldfart"?
Any Geezer would know what that means.
Sep 17, 2016 09:40:24 #
This is a true story! We had a friend, now unfortunately deceased, whose husband and she both had dark hair. One of their kids was a redhead, as was one of the grandparents. When she got tired of strangers, most often in the super-market, asking the young boy "where did you get that red hair?", she taught him to respond "from the mailman". The mother reported that most often there was instant silence, and the questioner couldn't get away fast enough 
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.Sep 17, 2016 10:47:31 #
See ya soon, baboon. Bye, bye, butterfly. Anybody remember the Autograph Hound? My mother was wrapping Christmas presents one day and there was this blue dachund she hadn't gotten to. I asked what's this - she told me it was a gift for one of my cousins. I believed her. Then I got the hound on Christmas Day. There were books with things you could write in autograph books, too. Things like "There are golden ships and silver ships but the best ship is FRIENDship" and Yours til the bed spreads. Oh for the good ol' days.
Sep 17, 2016 10:54:27 #
WOW this post is "GGGGRRREAAAATTTT"
Way to get it started FL Streetrodder, honestly this is by far one of my most favourite threads I have seen on the Hog for long time!
Wonderful, Thanks again.
Swede
"Right back at ya" I don't know if that one counts but that's all that I can remember 
Way to get it started FL Streetrodder, honestly this is by far one of my most favourite threads I have seen on the Hog for long time!
Wonderful, Thanks again.
Swede
"Right back at ya" I don't know if that one counts but that's all that I can remember Sep 17, 2016 11:43:47 #
Sep 17, 2016 14:56:15 #
Not so fast, Pendergast.
While carbon paper has disappeared, the "carbon copy" is very much alive in most (all?) e-mail programs, especially the "Blind Carbon Copy" which is something you couldn't do with real carbon paper. Come to think of it, I guess you could, since the addresses of all snail-mailed copies were known only to the sender.
Here's a link to something I got yesterday (maybe you have to delete the s from https):
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/bccd-emails-addresses-are-revealed-whose-fault-is-it/?ftag=CAD5920658&bhid=18826854594517927635159423206178
While carbon paper has disappeared, the "carbon copy" is very much alive in most (all?) e-mail programs, especially the "Blind Carbon Copy" which is something you couldn't do with real carbon paper. Come to think of it, I guess you could, since the addresses of all snail-mailed copies were known only to the sender.
Here's a link to something I got yesterday (maybe you have to delete the s from https):
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/bccd-emails-addresses-are-revealed-whose-fault-is-it/?ftag=CAD5920658&bhid=18826854594517927635159423206178
Sep 17, 2016 15:51:56 #
Sep 17, 2016 16:36:14 #
Bram boy
Loc: Vancouver Island B.C. Canada
f8lee wrote:
That's slickamacool
i wouldent touch that with a ten foot pole
Sep 17, 2016 16:41:23 #
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Sep 17, 2016 23:28:27 #
Hotta Deena Sotta Molle Cazaam! Crimani Italis, I'm Kapoot and going to bed. Maybe not the most famous of expressions but my dad used them all the time and I love them! And he was a Yankee Nebraska farmer!
Sep 18, 2016 08:43:47 #
It is also sad the current generations have lost their ability to understand plain language. Even on TV: "Call now to get your free quote." Quote what? The noun is "quotation," but rampant misuse has changed "quote" (Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!) to a verb in many printed dictionaries. People who make dictionaries speak of the "living language" but caving to lack of schooling: somewhere, they must draw the line. I lived next door to a teacher who told me kids were beginning to use texting abbreviations in formal school writing, not knowing the difference for all the trying.
Sep 18, 2016 12:20:15 #
That's slicker than snot on a doorknob....
Tighter than a quart of peas in a pint jar....
And, of course, we must examine a phrase that became common some several years ago. That would be, "I'm just sayin'." This is a modernized and much abbreviated version of an old and once often-used colloquialism, "Ain't no need to get all het up 'bout this."
Tighter than a quart of peas in a pint jar....
And, of course, we must examine a phrase that became common some several years ago. That would be, "I'm just sayin'." This is a modernized and much abbreviated version of an old and once often-used colloquialism, "Ain't no need to get all het up 'bout this."
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