FRENCHY Loc: Stone Mountain , Ga

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> Without naming names, though you "older guys/gals" as well as some "not so old" would get a kick out of this.
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> I remember my Dad saying "Keep a stiff upper lip and don't take any wooden nickels" ..
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> ENJOY! - - -
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> Remember them ? I do.
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> ~ Lost Words from our childhood ~
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> Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!
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> The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) 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 had never heard of the word jalopy! She knew she was old ... But not that old.
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> Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy Moley!
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> 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!
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> Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swelled? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.
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> Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.
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> 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.
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> Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blinked, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone?
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> 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. Wake up and smell the roses.
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> It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)
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> 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!
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> Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...
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> See ya later, alligator! Okidoki.
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> You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!
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> WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S ... NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN ... WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED FOR US BY THE “GREATEST GENERATION!”
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> ....OK if crawling under school desks for nuclear attack drills, the Cold War is peaceful and comfortable.....but the cars and the music were KEEN!

Ched49 Loc: Pittsburgh, Pa.

I don't know about this post, looks like...There's something rotten in Denmark!

alby Loc: very eastern pa.

i'm from the '40's... remember them all. tho i never saw a real "wooden nickel".....

Archboo3 Loc: Central Florida

By gosh,By golly I think you right

cedymock Loc: Irmo, South Carolina

Thank GOD someone still knows how to converse, now i must put on my garments go crank the car.

Popeye Loc: LifIno

My wife and I still use most of those terms every now and then.

G Brown Loc: Sunny Bognor Regis West Sussex UK

Sadly I remember nearly all of those words and expressions - and I'm English.

Blooming Yanks

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

I was a post depression baby, born 1936. I remember all those phrases and more, still use them today and get looks from people as if I was nuts. (That's what the commanding officer told the German officer at the battle of the bulge.) I have soooo many memories, good and bad of those growing up years and I would absolutely say I would not trade any one of them for anything.
Rich...

malawibob Loc: South Carolina

for mercies sakes I remember hem all!

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

Talking Pig Latin; "Amscray, the teacher is coming!"

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

A lot of their ignorance is because they have a very narrow social circle and a very narrow field of interest.

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

As a kid we used the word skedaddle, I still hear it used although mostly in old movies. I did read (yes, I still read a newspaper) in the news that the dictionary was going to eliminate that word so I use it more often.

Bartulius Loc: Bristol, Ct

Talking Pig Latin; "Amscray, the teacher is coming!"

ncribble Loc: Albuquerque, NM

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Love the trip down memory lane By Golly Gum Drops.

Plieku69 Loc: The Gopher State, south end

Calling women dames always intrigued me. I never knew the origin of the term