I always thought people were saying, "In like Flint". I blame the 60's.
Posted on 05/28/2018 12:24:30 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? ‘Heavens to Mergatroyd’!
The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her grandson about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is a Jalopy?"
OMG! 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'', 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 ducktail; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes 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? (My Favorite) "Let's all go to the beach Saturday".
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 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 ya later, alligator! Okey Dokey!
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S. NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN. WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS BACK THEN: - OUR MEMORIES – ALAS, I SEEM TO BE LOSING MINE A LITTLE BIT AT A TIME.
The twenty and thirty-somethings who write copy, shows and movies know most of the words and they throw them out there quite a bit. Channel surfing I hear stuff a kid wouldn’t know on shows aimed at the young.
I always thought people were saying, "In like Flint". I blame the 60's.
My son is 24 and works with 7-9th graders. He’ll think he has a funny image on the computer during a talk. “Yeah dad, its not so funny when you have to explain who the cartoon “Batman” is.” (I don’t recall if that was the specific one or not. Oh wait - another one was about a “Dilly Bar” from Dairy Queen. “What’s a Dilly Bar!?”)
Yep. The bee's knees.
Very good - like it...
I don’t know what world you live in, but 75 is elderly. Everywhere.
I’m 67 and I understand that younger people no longer know what “A quarter to three” means.
I’m not the author!!!!
90% of people these days could not tell you what a bit is, or where it came from.
scadoodle - your name reminded me of that one
I remember being at a work meeting in a large conference room. Standing nearby was a rather tall gentleman talking to a short gentleman. I remarked that they looked like “Mutt and Jeff.” The twenty-something young lady with us had no idea what I meant by that.
It seems that the four letter versions are now the most common in most talk. I really despise what the proggs have done to this nation.
With that being said please enjoy your Memorial Day.
‘Scadoodle’ I like that - as you probably know, a sodpoodle is a prairie dog. Think I’ll change my name;)
I am surprised that she did not want you sent to re education camp.
...90% of people these days could not tell you what a bit is, or where it came from.
1/8 of a silver dollar, Spanish I think
That is perfect!!!! Skidaddle - yes!
Good Grief!!!!
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