Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word
Murgatroyd?
Heavens to Mergatroyd!
Lost Words from our childhood:
Words gone as fast as the buggy whip!
Sad really!
Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions
that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.
These phrases included
âDonât touch that dial,â
âCarbon copy,â
âYou sound like a broken recordâ
and âHung out to dry.â
Back in the olden days we had a lot of âmoxie.â
Weâd put on our best âbib and tuckerâ toâ straighten up and fly rightâ.
Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers!
Jumping Jehoshaphat!
Holy moley!
We were âin like Flynnâ and âliving the life of Rileyâ',
and even a regular guy couldnât 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 whenâs 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...AND DON'T FORGET... Saddle Stitched Pants
Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isnât anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can
say, Well, Iâll be âa monkeyâs uncle!â Or, This is a âfine kettle of fishâ!
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 weâve left behind
We blink, and theyâre gone.
Where have all those great phrases gone? ( My Favorite)" Let's all go to the beach Saturday"....
Long gone:
Pshaw,
The milkman did it.
Hey! Itâs your nickel.
Donât forget to pull the chain.
Knee high to a grasshopper.
Well, Fiddlesticks!
Going like sixty.
Iâll see you in the funny papers.
Donât take any wooden nickels.
Wake up and smell the roses.
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!)
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.
Itâs one of the greatest advantages of aging.
Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...
See ya later, alligator!
Okidoki
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S AND 60'S..
NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN...
GOD GAVE US ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS:
............OUR MEMORIES.........
RETW
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