Lost Words From our Childhood

The Association of Mature American Citizens ^ | 5/11/2016 | Richard Lederer

[nevergore]

Uuugggghh?!?

[sodpoodle]

Whippersnapper (not whipersnaper) is a young and inexperienced person considered to be presumptuous or overconfident.

“I know her better than you do, you young whippersnapper!”

[tbpiper]

If the f-word disappeared, a lot of people would lose 90% of their working vocabulary and most modern ‘comedians’ would be out of work.

[sparklite2]

Do you remember James Coburn and In Like Flint? Loved it.

[sparklite2]

Sadly gone is “it’s a free country.”

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I miss “free, white, and 21.”

[Atticus]

I recently suggested that my 19 year old “Xerox” something. She had no clue what I meant.

Reminds me: in school we were handed mimeograph copies. At least one of my teachers called such a copy a “ditto.”

[Candor7]

Great Balls of Fire!

Crazier than a bag of hammers!

Hornier than a 10 peckered owl!

Hasn’t got a full deck !

Ready Kilowatt!

No conceit in her family, she has it all.

Holy Be Jassus!

I’m headed!

[Vaquero]

Gay from 1938 (perhaps the origin?)

https://youtu.be/aCymsoQL49c

[BlueLancer]

Do you remember James Coburn and In Like Flint? Loved it.

If you've never seen the Bruce Willis movie "Hudson Hawk", you need to ... James Coburn does a great caricature of his Derek Flint character.

[sparklite2]

Also a dike was something the little boy put his finger in to keep the sea from flooding Holland.

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It still is. Poor spelling has led to the corruption of ‘dyke,’ though.

[Fai Mao]

No Lollygagging!

[sparklite2]

One of the funniest bits in Skyrim.

[sonofagun]

I don’t see “the other hand” as your example is one of inference, depending on ones state of mind, where the vulgarity I refer to is blatant and leaves nothing to infer.

But I agree there was a lot of sexual innuendo used that I didn’t understand as a youngster. Today’s youngsters are much better versed in everything sexual.

[TalBlack]

I’m 60 and the vast majority of those words were old geezer words to me. I read and sometimes heard them but never actually used any of them outside of sarcasam.

[Fai Mao]

“One of the funniest bits in Skyrim.”

Never played it.

[reed13k]

looks like you covered the whole kit and kaboodle

[AFret.]

“Pull my finger”...

[olepap]

Not ‘In like Flynn’, but ‘In like Flintstone’!

[lysie]

[reed13k]

I understood it that younger coach/stage/buggy drivers would compensate for lack of experience by overusing the whip on the team - thus young ‘whip’er’snap’per

I have no factual information to back this up.