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Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 2, 2019, 7:45 PM
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Heavens to Mergatroyd !!! I may have opened up a can of worms but if I have, I'll jump in my jalopy and head for the back forty.
A friend sent this to me the other day so it's not all original with me and I don't know who to blame or give credit for all the other stuff.
We wake up from what surely has been 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 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.
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 little liver pills. And the sad thing is Carter's Little liver Pills are gone too. nd where did Lydia Pinkham go?
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.
Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth.
See you later, alligator!!
Okidoki !!
And then there were these phrases "Don't touch that dial", "carbon copy", "you sound like a broken record" and "hung out to dry". And we had a lot of "moxie". We'd put on our best bib and tucker so we could "straighten up and fly right? Heavens to Betsy, Gee whillikers!, Jumping Johoshaphat and 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 even for all the tea in China. Oh my aching back! Kilroy was here but he isn't any more.
Words and phrases come and go and time marches on.
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"Let's go bust a covey"..............***
May 2, 2019, 7:51 PM
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Re: "Let's go bust a covey"..............***
May 2, 2019, 8:53 PM
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And point some singles.
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An observation of my own which is related...
May 2, 2019, 7:51 PM
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How we say the same thing(kinda' telling)
Children of the 40's and 50's:
"I believe he's gone too far!"
Children of the 60's - 80's:
"I think he's gone too far!"
Children of the 90's - 2000's:
"I feel like he's gone too far!"
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 2, 2019, 8:20 PM
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Love your posts Joe!! “Oh my aching back” is the strongest epithet I ever heard my Dad utter - lol.... Miss him every day. Seems every generation invents their own words and phrases ... and I think that is as it should be ...., -
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Anybody know “henbullets”, “penders”
May 2, 2019, 8:40 PM
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“Company store”
“4 bits”
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Call Joe21 butter
May 2, 2019, 9:37 PM
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He’s on a roll!
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“Well I’ll be John Brown” was one I heard my Granddaddy say
May 2, 2019, 10:01 PM
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a many a day and I find myself saying as well. He also used to say “ I’m gonna run you down to Baker’s new ground”, if we got in trouble, we could never figure out where that was exactly. Somewhere around Waynesville, NC where he was raised I reckon.
Dig deep get grubby, we still say that one today. That saying came from the Cherokee Indians when they would mix grubs into their beans which would settle to the bottom of the pot.
Another good one...”He’s grinning like Mule with a mouth full of yellow jackets”.
Good stuff Joe, thanks for bringing back some good memories.
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 2, 2019, 10:11 PM
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Joe, did you use to say, "Oh snap!" when you were a kid or did you just start using that expression?
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)***
May 2, 2019, 10:35 PM
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My dad used to say, "The breeze don't blow up the same
May 2, 2019, 10:16 PM
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dogs a$$ all the time." I don't think he originated it, but it always struck me as funny.
The "Golden Age of Television" brought a couple of memorable sayings, at least.
"One day Alice, POW! To the Moon!"
and of course, the dirtiest thing ever said on network television,
"Ward, you were a little rough on the Beaver last night."
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Re: My dad used to say, "The breeze don't blow up the same
May 2, 2019, 10:18 PM
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My Dad used to say, "Well I'll be a monkey's uncle". I still like that one.
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 2, 2019, 10:34 PM
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My grandfather used to say "$hit fire and save the matches."
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 2, 2019, 10:36 PM
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What does that mean?
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I can remember...
May 2, 2019, 10:39 PM
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"Develop the film"
"Roll down the window"
"Tune into the morning DJ"
"Dial the operator"
"Be kind, and please rewind"
"Look it up in the phone book"
"Wish I had a camera with me"
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Re: I can remember...
May 2, 2019, 11:06 PM
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The Red Carpet
Bum lines
Pay at the end of the line in Harcombe.
Johnstone Hall with no A/C
One phone on each hall In Johnstone
Dumping the Male Cheerleaders in the Reflecting Pond after Pep Rally
Ruby Red's in Underground
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Re: I can remember...
May 2, 2019, 11:44 PM
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Oh for pete’s Sake
We are trading daylight for dark. (When trying to get the boys up to get in the fields.)
I’’ll see you soon God willing and the creek don’t rise.
Raining cats and dogs
This is a frog strangler ( heavy rain)
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Old farm phrases I remember
May 3, 2019, 1:04 AM
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We're in the short rows now! (almost finished-as in finishing up in a corn field, where the mature stalks have been picked and only the runts are left)
Cold as a witch's teat
I just took a two cobber (I think you start with a red(coarse) cob and end with a smoother yellow or white one to finish up)
He just sat down in his harness (like a stubborn mule who refuses to move anymore)
Rode hard and put away wet (abused, like a horse that is untended at the end of the day)
Running around like a chicken with his head cut off (confused, inefficient, and erratic)
Not quite square/Half a bubble off plumb (construction terms for something thats not quite right)
A roll in the hay
Dressed in their Sunday finest/Dressed like they are going to town (dressed up)
grab a Mountain Dew (not the soft drink)
God's Own Medicine (an old cough syrup with morphine in it believe)
G.O.M.ed Up (something that's screwed up, like if you tried to do something while high on GOM)
Strutting like a rooster (showing off)
You gotta plow around the stump, son (keep things simple/avoid conflicts)
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Gamecock Recruiting: Sucking Hind ###***
May 3, 2019, 5:10 AM
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era-crank the car
May 3, 2019, 7:03 AM
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dial the phone, adjust the rabbit ears while youre up
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 3, 2019, 7:21 AM
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I remember when “make a carbon copy” got replaced with “xerox this”. Tell that to a young person today and you get a blank stare. I wonder how many know what that “cc:” on the email derived from?
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 3, 2019, 9:26 AM
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Mr. C, you are talking out of your hat but I love the way you chew the fat
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Useless as #### on a boar hog***
May 3, 2019, 9:54 AM
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 3, 2019, 10:09 AM
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My favorite is "USC Gamecocks ACC Champions."
I said "Yabadabadoo" one day and my kids looked at me strange. I said, "You know, Fred Flintstone." They said, "Who?"
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Re: Words and Phrases From a Bygone Era (Maybe)
May 3, 2019, 11:25 AM
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Thanks for all of your additions. Some farmers years ago used to say their work day was from "can see to can't see".
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