Lost words from our childhood
Nov 16, 2015 00:18:59 #
Going the e-mail rounds.
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!! So they went to the computer and pulled up a picture from the movie "The Grapes of Wrath." Now that was a Jalopy!
She knew she was old but not that old...
I hope you are Hunky dory after you read this and chuckle...
*WORDS AND PHRASES REMIND US OF THE WAY WE WORD*
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." A bevy of readers have asked me to shine light on more faded words and expressions, and I am happy to oblige:
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers lane. 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.
Like Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, 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, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone, evanesced from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an organ grinders monkey.
Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Long time ago: Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston. The very idea! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go! Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our youth, these words that lodge in our heart's deep core. But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past, forever making a different river.
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. We can have archaic and eat it, too.
See ya later, alligator!
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!! So they went to the computer and pulled up a picture from the movie "The Grapes of Wrath." Now that was a Jalopy!
She knew she was old but not that old...
I hope you are Hunky dory after you read this and chuckle...
*WORDS AND PHRASES REMIND US OF THE WAY WE WORD*
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." A bevy of readers have asked me to shine light on more faded words and expressions, and I am happy to oblige:
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker and straighten up and fly right. Hubba-hubba! We'd cut a rug in some juke joint and then go necking and petting and smooching and spooning and billing and cooing and pitching woo in hot rods and jalopies in some passion pit or lovers lane. 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.
Like Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle and Kurt Vonnegut's Billy Pilgrim, we have become unstuck in time. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, 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, poof, poof go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone, evanesced from the landscape and wordscape of our perception, like Mickey Mouse wristwatches, hula hoops, skate keys, candy cigarettes, little wax bottles of colored sugar water and an organ grinders monkey.
Where have all those phrases gone? Long time passing. Where have all those phrases gone? Long time ago: Pshaw. The milkman did it. Think about the starving Armenians. Bigger than a bread box. Banned in Boston. The very idea! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Turn-of-the-century. Iron curtain. Domino theory. Fail safe. Civil defense. Fiddlesticks! You look like the wreck of the Hesperus. Cooties. Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! And awa-a-ay we go! Oh, my stars and garters! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter had liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff, this winking out of the words of our youth, these words that lodge in our heart's deep core. But just as one never steps into the same river twice, one cannot step into the same language twice. Even as one enters, words are swept downstream into the past, forever making a different river.
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. We can have archaic and eat it, too.
See ya later, alligator!
Nov 16, 2015 01:09:25 #
Nov 16, 2015 04:48:34 #
RWNJ wrote:
I'm surprised they didn't include a pig in a poke. How could they miss THAT one?
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And gee willikers, and I sure got his goat.
Here are some words they are working like mad to erase from our language and memories: honesty, t***h, fact, logic, God, church, decency, goodness, prayer - all by l*****ts' design to eliminate the political right.
Nov 16, 2015 08:51:11 #
RWNJ wrote:
I'm surprised they didn't include a pig in a poke. How could they miss THAT one?
:lol: :lol:
Nov 16, 2015 09:02:04 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
Tasine wrote:
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And gee willikers, and I sure got his goat.
Here are some words they are working like mad to erase from our language and memories: honesty, t***h, fact, logic, God, church, decency, goodness, prayer - all by l*****ts' design to eliminate the political right.
And gee willikers, and I sure got his goat.
Here are some words they are working like mad to erase from our language and memories: honesty, t***h, fact, logic, God, church, decency, goodness, prayer - all by l*****ts' design to eliminate the political right.
Add to that list male and female to be replaced by hundreds of g****r neutral words that are nonsense. when will the lunacy end?
on a lighter note
One of my favorites is He couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket. probably because it describes me totally.
Nov 16, 2015 09:46:06 #
no propaganda please wrote:
Add to that list male and female to be replaced by hundreds of g****r neutral words that are nonsense. when will the lunacy end?
on a lighter note
One of my favorites is He couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket. probably because it describes me totally.
on a lighter note
One of my favorites is He couldn't carry a tune in a bushel basket. probably because it describes me totally.
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Ah, yes, the neutered humanoid. I'd forgotten all about the no he/she, but it, etc. Such silly crap! :evil: I think I know why the l*****ts desperately wants neutered people. The left does not have normal human emotions, normal relationships, normal thinking, normal reactions to good or to bad. They are not totally whole people, they KNOW it, they despise being such and are desperately trying to find a way out to seem normal and that is by DE-NORMALIZING the rest of us. If they can put the onus on US, they don't have to work at trying to be normal, and we won't have much to criticize about them - at least that's what I think they naively believe.
Leftists as I see them
Nov 16, 2015 09:54:07 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
Tasine wrote:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` br Ah, yes, the neutered... (show quote)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nov 16, 2015 10:50:07 #
See ya later, alligator!
after a while, crocodile!
that reminds me, do you know the meanest animal in the world?
It is a crocogator.
What is a crocogator you asked?
it is a reptile, sure you got that right, with the head of a crocodile on one end and the head of an alligator on the other end.
So....there is no asshole and he cant s**t and.......
that makes it the meanest animal in the world.
after a while, crocodile!
that reminds me, do you know the meanest animal in the world?
It is a crocogator.
What is a crocogator you asked?
it is a reptile, sure you got that right, with the head of a crocodile on one end and the head of an alligator on the other end.
So....there is no asshole and he cant s**t and.......
that makes it the meanest animal in the world.
Nov 16, 2015 10:55:52 #
no propaganda please
Loc: moon orbiting the third rock from the sun
Jimbolai wrote:
See ya later, alligator!
after a while, crocodile!
that reminds me, do you know the meanest animal in the world?
It is a crocogator.
What is a crocogator you asked?
it is a reptile, sure you got that right, with the head of a crocodile on one end and the head of an alligator on the other end.
So....there is no asshole and he cant s**t and.......
that makes it the meanest animal in the world.
after a while, crocodile!
that reminds me, do you know the meanest animal in the world?
It is a crocogator.
What is a crocogator you asked?
it is a reptile, sure you got that right, with the head of a crocodile on one end and the head of an alligator on the other end.
So....there is no asshole and he cant s**t and.......
that makes it the meanest animal in the world.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nov 16, 2015 11:06:35 #
Tasine wrote:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~` br Ah, yes, the neutered... (show quote)
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper.
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips
slanderers, h**ers of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmercifuland although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Nov 16, 2015 11:08:56 #
Jimbolai wrote:
See ya later, alligator!
after a while, crocodile!
that reminds me, do you know the meanest animal in the world?
It is a crocogator.
What is a crocogator you asked?
it is a reptile, sure you got that right, with the head of a crocodile on one end and the head of an alligator on the other end.
So....there is no asshole and he cant s**t and.......
that makes it the meanest animal in the world.
after a while, crocodile!
that reminds me, do you know the meanest animal in the world?
It is a crocogator.
What is a crocogator you asked?
it is a reptile, sure you got that right, with the head of a crocodile on one end and the head of an alligator on the other end.
So....there is no asshole and he cant s**t and.......
that makes it the meanest animal in the world.
:lol: :lol: :thumbup: :thumbup: Must be a big buildup in the middle :shock:
Nov 16, 2015 11:22:57 #
Elwood wrote:
:lol: :lol: :thumbup: :thumbup: Must be a big buildup in the middle :shock:
Stand back! It's gonna...
Nov 16, 2015 16:32:44 #
Nov 17, 2015 05:52:05 #
Toodaloo kangaroo
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (Wisconsin marching band song)
And looked what happened to the word 'gay!' Our kids wouldn't understand it.
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (Wisconsin marching band song)
And looked what happened to the word 'gay!' Our kids wouldn't understand it.
Nov 17, 2015 06:02:03 #
BearK wrote:
Toodaloo kangaroo
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (Wisconsin marching band song)
And looked what happened to the word 'gay!' Our kids wouldn't understand it.
There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight (Wisconsin marching band song)
And looked what happened to the word 'gay!' Our kids wouldn't understand it.
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And the progs are doing their dead level best to have the words "responsibility" and "responsible" die. Those are words that get in their way of looking like wise people even though their actions fail and people want to put the blame where it actually lies - at the feet of the progs. They cannot bring themselves to accept the responsibility for things that are solely THEIRS.
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