Patrick
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« on: April 24, 2016, 09:42:59 AM » |
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Subject: Lost Words & Sayings From Our Childhood
Those of us of a certain age will appreciate the following:
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word murgatroyd?
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? 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 nickles. 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 memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging. So see ya later, alligator!
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2016, 10:03:20 AM » |
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John Schmidt
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« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2016, 12:45:30 PM » |
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Memories of days gone by, kinda like one gal I dated. She was "ugly as a mud fence" but eventually I met her good looking girlfriend.  |
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Patrick
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« Reply #3 on: April 24, 2016, 12:56:26 PM » |
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Memories of days gone by, kinda like one gal I dated. She was "ugly as a mud fence" but eventually I met her good looking girlfriend. LOL ! I still use that one quite a bit ! |
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2016, 12:56:48 PM » |
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Mom used to tell me I was.... cruisin' for a brusin'. Boy, there was no confusion about what that meant.
Her side of the family used to talk about someone with a flannel mouth... (someone who told things that weren't supposed to be told)
Grandad asked me if I slept with my teeth in my mouth. I was 4, how in the hell could anyone NOT sleep with their teeth in their mouth? (Until mom showed me his teeth in a jar on his nightstand) That creeped me right out. He also called me a knucklehead, then gave me a mild dutch rub, with his knuckles.
Then there was the guy whose cheese had slid off his cracker.
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2016, 01:32:46 PM » |
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I remember my mom saying, "If you fall out of that tree and break your leg, don't come running to me." I could never see the logic in that.  |
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2016, 02:50:46 PM » |
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One of my best buddies father use to say I am going to give you some leather goods. A belt in the mouth and a boot in the ass. Seeing how he was a marine on Guadalcanal I was not taking a chance he was just kidding.
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2016, 03:34:46 PM » |
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Heard a LOT on my Ship during Nam. Do NOT let yer alligator mouth over ride yer humming bird ass.  John-NEVER met the good lookin sister but met one that would make a train take a dirt road.  THAT gal did NOT git hit by the ugly sick-the whole cursed forest attacked her. RIDE SAFE. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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Patrick
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2016, 05:57:30 PM » |
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One of my best buddies father use to say I am going to give you some leather goods. A belt in the mouth and a boot in the ass. Seeing how he was a marine on Guadalcanal I was not taking a chance he was just kidding.
I used to get the belt across the ass. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2016, 08:04:50 AM » |
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Didn't matter if she was "Ugly as a mud fence" if she was "Built like a brick s#ithouse". |
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Patrick
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« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2016, 08:09:31 AM » |
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Didn't matter if she was "Ugly as a mud fence" if she was "Built like a brick s#ithouse". Ah, yes. Used to call them 2 baggers. Just in case the first bag broke. That was a bad thing to say wasn't it. |
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« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2016, 08:44:37 AM » |
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Didn't matter if she was "Ugly as a mud fence" if she was "Built like a brick s#ithouse". russian flag and revenge. YOU fill in da blanks! RIDE SAFE. Ah, yes. Used to call them 2 baggers. Just in case the first bag broke. That was a bad thing to say wasn't it. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2016, 10:00:14 AM » |
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Knowing too many of those might give your age away... |
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You are never lost if you don't care where you are!
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« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2016, 10:50:50 AM » |
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Didn't matter if she was "Ugly as a mud fence" if she was "Built like a brick s#ithouse". Ah, yes. Used to call them 2 baggers. Just in case the first bag broke. That was a bad thing to say wasn't it. Yep. Paper or plastic?  |
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bigguy
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« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2016, 01:21:59 PM » |
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I knew a gal ugly enough to scare the buzzards off a gut wagon.
Some were so fat you had to love them with a soap stone. You marked off the parts you done loved on so you won't hit the same part twice before you get through.
We had a few folks so special their sh!t didn't stink.
I knew other folks with a champaign appetite but a beer pocketbook.
There were a few whose elevator didn't go all the way to the top floor.
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« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2016, 02:26:41 PM » |
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Slicker'n two eels makin love in a barrel of snot..
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art
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« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2016, 08:13:09 PM » |
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She's so ugly,she must have been beat with an ugly stick...(Mooshe)
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DavRed
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« Reply #18 on: April 27, 2016, 08:44:54 PM » |
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Daddy would say. "If you put his brain in a humming birds ass. It would fly backwards" That's my favorite. Just cause it was Daddy |
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« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2016, 02:42:12 AM » |
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My Father had a few. The one that sticks with me to this day is, whenever I would ask "where's Mom". His reply, "she went out to crap and the hogs ate her".
My brother-in-law Rob whenever things went well, "just like downtown".
Love and miss them both dearly!
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« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2016, 03:39:55 AM » |
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Better living through modern technology.
Cooking with gas.
Slicker than snot on a door knob.
If that don't cross your balls!
Want a fat lip?
She's just sucking wind through her ass.
I'd walk 10 miles through broken glass barefoot just to stand in her crap.
If brains were gas he couldn't drive a piss ants motorcycle halfway around a BB.
Is that your car or did they move the Staunton dump?
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"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And... moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.'' -- Barry Goldwater, Acceptance Speech at the Republican Convention; 1964  |
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« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2016, 05:03:29 AM » |
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A west Texas boy in my crew wasn't looking so good one day and I said Calvin, you OK? He held his stomach, grimaced and said I couldn't pull a sick whore off a toilet seat. I didn't know if that was good or bad.
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hubcapsc
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« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2016, 05:36:48 AM » |
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so fat she has mass whether the Higgs Boson exists or not.
-Mike
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« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2016, 05:50:04 AM » |
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My dad used a belt on us,, he would say ,,"if you dont quit crying I will give you something to cry about"
Never made sense to me.
Or if we did something stupid,,, "did you eat some dumbass for breakfast"?
Or wow,, "she would grow hair on a crowbar"
Or " she would have to sneak up on a glass of water to drink it.
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« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2016, 07:08:37 AM » |
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And the expression "Cool!" just hangs on generation after generation.
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« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2016, 07:56:55 AM » |
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HOLD YER HORSES!
You are getting too big for your britches!
What a corker!
Ride safe...
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« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2016, 08:10:07 AM » |
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Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.
Sweating like a whore in church.
Gooder than snuff.
A face that could stop a clock.
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Here there be Dragons. |
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« Reply #27 on: April 28, 2016, 09:10:05 AM » |
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shines like a diamond in a goats ass....like puttin perfume on a pig...Uglier than a mud fence...smells like the ass of a skunk....dumber than a bag of hammers...I'm dumber for being here.
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You are never lost if you don't care where you are!
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« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2016, 03:38:10 PM » |
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From my late father-in-law.
Your breath smells like a cool breeze across a billy goats ass.
Dumber than a box of rocks.
Tighter than Dick's hat- band.
You're just like a Jack...what you don't tear up, you crap on.
And my favorite: Who left that hammer handle in the commode?
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