cold iron Loc: White House

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
The other day a not so elderly 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.
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''.
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, penny loafers, and pedal pushers...AND DON'T FORGET... Saddle Stitched Pants
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 great 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. 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 existed ........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.
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..
NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN...
WE RETAIN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS:
............OUR MEMORIES........

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

I remember when the GOP was conservative.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Except for about 25 Representatives and 6 or 7 Senators there are no fiscal Conservatives anymore. I remember when the Democrats actually supported the working man. Now they support i******s over citizens, higher tax's, and more regulation plus Gay rights over religious rights and open borders. LOL. You can google any number of Democrat leaders completely flipping their opinions about the border. As soon as the brown population passes the v****g numbers of the black population you will see the Democrats throw the b****s aside. Already happening. At least the Republicans have always been about the color green.

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

And if you are old enough, you might remember when the Democrat party was not run by the c*******t/socialists. However, since the CPUSA invasion of the Democrat party started in earnest with the FDR administration. Now the CPUSA and company have taken over the Democrat party and true old fashioned Democrats are few and far between. the party is now full of c*******ts and other one world socialists. Obama is not fully to blame, but his mentor Frank Marshall Davis, a documented member of CPUSA was very influential in his bringing up period. Add to that the fact that Obamas mother was also a c*******t. Add to that the Saul Alinsky connection through Hillary and you have an accurate picture of today's Democrats.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

cold iron Loc: White House

I too remember when the Democrat party have a brain and common sense. That also had a great leader,
his name was John Kennedy but when they found out he was a conservative and lowered taxes, they k**led him.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Just once; instead of infantile pic's why don't you actually rebut what no propaganda posted. Much of it is actually in Obama's own biography. Yet you constantly show cartoons because you have no debate sk**ls.

bahmer

Amen and Amen

Iamdjchrys Loc: Decatur, Texas

Perhaps sadly, I am an old school Democrat!

no propaganda please Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun

Thank you. He knows that what I posted is in Obama's book as well as several other sources.

Too bad all he can do is post cartoons done by other people. the least he should do is draw his own cartoons, then we could be entertained by his artwork.

Bad Bob Loc: Virginia

out of the woods Loc: to hell and gone New York State

Those words and phrases were all commonly used, by my grandmother Gertrude. But wasn't it Holy Murgatroyd, Heavens to Betsy?

ldsuttonjr Loc: ShangriLa

Great Stuff: Cold Iron....Thank you, those were great years as a child!!

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

one might say we are out of our cotton picking minds but today, that's a r****t thing!

cold iron Loc: White House

It sadly seems we have sunk into the swamp as well. Few Americans seem to care about our country, we will k**l off ICE so the world can move it. I have to wonder how many
of these fools have ever been to Tijuana Mexico, a true arm pit. Is that what they want America to become.

The simpleton Bad Boob has an IQ of 30 at best. He has help posting his crap.