Those were the days -
Mar 21, 2016 13:27:07 #
Subject: FW: Those were the days -
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word murgatroyd?
Lost Words from our childhood:
Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad, really! The other day a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said what the heck is a Jalopy? OMG (new phrase!) 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...by Richard Lederer
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: Pshaw, The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel.
Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper.
Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd!
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 changeful 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 memories. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word murgatroyd?
Lost Words from our childhood:
Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad, really! The other day a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said what the heck is a Jalopy? OMG (new phrase!) 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...by Richard Lederer
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: Pshaw, The milkman did it.
Hey! It's your nickel.
Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper.
Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd!
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 changeful 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 memories. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator
Mar 21, 2016 18:35:12 #
Mar 22, 2016 06:13:17 #
Mar 22, 2016 06:24:20 #
Mar 22, 2016 07:39:03 #
Mar 22, 2016 08:03:54 #
And, "Life's not a bowl of cherries"....... :mrgreen:
Mar 22, 2016 08:33:06 #
Cape Codder
Loc: Cape Cod
While we are thinking of lost vocab, what about vocab we never heard of in our early years?!
See ya soon, big baboon.
In a while, crocodile.
See ya soon, big baboon.
In a while, crocodile.
Mar 22, 2016 09:02:38 #
Mar 22, 2016 09:04:18 #
We all miss the good old days but don't worry Trump is going to bring all that back. :thumbup:
Mar 22, 2016 10:21:32 #
Nobody knows how to "crank down the window" on your car.
You don't "dial a number" to "ring someone up on the phone", and "hang up" when you are finished. For that matter, no one knows what it's like to get a "wrong number" either.
You don't "dial a number" to "ring someone up on the phone", and "hang up" when you are finished. For that matter, no one knows what it's like to get a "wrong number" either.
Mar 22, 2016 12:19:58 #
Interestingly, some words have survived to today's youth such as "Cool", "dude" and "dope" although the meaning has changed on that last one ha ha.
Mar 22, 2016 15:28:21 #
But remember, the kids today are continually making up new words and phrases that we don't know unless we are intermingling with them.
Mar 22, 2016 16:08:03 #
True. The whole point is to be able to use their secret language so we old farts don't know what they are saying.
Mar 22, 2016 18:11:55 #
Thanks for these, I remember them well and still use them!!
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Mar 22, 2016 21:07:41 #
Great stuff,you don't realise the subtle moving on of our language sayings
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