Posted on 01/08/2019 3:57:41 AM PST by sodpoodle
Many of these were in the old cartoons and movies we watched when we were kids in the sixties. That’s how I knew them. And my grandparents and parents used some of them too, of course.
I didn’t know that.
I ‘dialed’ up a buddy on the ‘Ameche’. Told him if I didn’t get a raise I was gone, ‘ Claude Raines’. He said ‘ Boss’, ‘Groovy’.
“...tight as Dick’s hat band.”
As a fan of the TV series Gunsmoke, I enjoy what I call “Festusisms”
“Goll-y-bill”
“You old scudder”
“Faster than you can say ‘rat run over the roof with a piece of raw liver in its mouth’”
“The the real McCoy was the scotch whiskey smuggled into the US by Capt Willy McCoy during the era of prohibition. Only McCoy’s whiskey was the real stuff.”
Supposedly...
You can’t “drop a dime” on some Ne’er-do-well any more either.
Me late father was renowned in family lore as being tight with a buck, which was mostly for show.
One of his favorite sayings was...”When I let go of the nickel, the buffalo can poop” or in more polite company...”When I let go of a nickel, Jefferson can take a breath”
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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Say what..???
I always tell my kids “Don’t take any wooden nickels.”
Exactly!
...I remember “gay” when it had no perverse meaning..
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Also a dike was something the little boy put his finger in to keep the sea from flooding Holland.
Not for all the tea in China!
Guess ‘we’ were the first ‘smart arse generation’ as the retort to that ‘tea in China’ was “BUT it comes from Ceylon”
and trans was the start of the word for that window OVER the door,
Riding in the rumble seat - the rumble seat was replaced with ‘SHOTGUN’ - (I GOT the passenger side FRONT window)
There was a MALE and FEMALE to select from and the plumbing better match the ‘person’ in a rest room (or lavatory or head)
Andy Griffith’s Mayberry character’s always used great southern terms = the accents were hilarious.
Gomer “Citizen’s Arrest”.
tight as the bark on a tree
‘Our Hearts Were Young And Gay’.......Cornelia Otis Skinner
That's one theory. The most widely accepted theory is it refers to the first automatic lubricators for the locomotive. When copies arrived, the original was referred to as the "Real McCoy".
The Flynn phrase is “supposedly,” too, but it first appeared at the right time and in the right context (show-business reporting) to support the claim.
What the Hell is a whipersnaper?
Never figured that out.
I’m speaking philosophically.
The reason those words are gone is that the current residents of this country came from elsewhere where those words were not a part of their cultural collective.
This is what it means for a country to lose its national identity. This is what the yellow vests in France are protesting, the feeling of being displaced in their own nation.
This loss of words is a sign of a disconnect with our heritage.
-PJ
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