I always thought people were saying, "In like Flint". I blame the 60's.
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‘Heavens to Murgatroyd’ is American in origin and dates from the mid 20th century. The expression was popularized by the cartoon character Snagglepuss - a regular on the Yogi Bear Show in the 1960s, and is a variant of the earlier ‘heavens to Betsy’.
My Dad likes to call whatever car I drive(including the brand new one) a buggy. He’s always used the word, but I’ve never told him I hate the word “buggy” for a car.
Finer than frog hair
Split three ways and
Twice as slick!
Change of Pace;
After 35 years of marriage, a husband and wife came for counseling. When asked what the problem was, the wife went into a tirade listing every problem they had ever had in all the years they had been married. On and on and on: neglect, lack of intimacy, emptiness, loneliness, feeling unloved and unlovable, an entire laundry list of unmet needs she endured. Finally, after allowing this for a sufficient length of time, the therapist got up, walked around the desk and after asking the wife to stand, he embraced and kissed her long and passionately as her husband watched - with a raised eyebrow. The woman shut up and quietly sat down in a daze. The therapist turned to the husband and said, “This is what your wife needs at least 3 times a week. Can you do this?” “Well, I can drop her off here on Mondays and Wednesdays…………..but I deer hunt on Fridays.
“See ya later, alligator! Okey Dokey!”
No, it’s “See ya later, alligator!” “In a while, crocodile!”
They spelled it wrong. It's "Murgatroyd."
I’m giving you a couple bits for the tip. Most these people don’t now their ass from an apple cart anyway
Thank you sodpoodle for the humor. I have two to add:
A woman asks her husband if he’d like some breakfast. “Would you like bacon and eggs, perhaps? A slice of toast and maybe some grapefruit and coffee?” she asks.
He declines. “Thanks for asking, but I’m not hungry right now. It’s this Viagra,” he says. “It’s really taken the edge off my appetite.”
At lunch time, she asks if he would like something. “A bowl of soup, homemade muffins, or a cheese sandwich?” she inquires. He declines. “The Viagra,” he says, “really trashes my desire for food.”
Come dinnertime, she asks if he wants anything to eat. “Would you like a juicy porterhouse steak and scrumptious apple pie? Or maybe a rotisserie chicken, or tasty stir fry?” He declines again. “Nah, still not hungry.”
“Well,” she said, “would you mind letting me up? I’m starving.”
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Thoughts to ponder:
1. I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
2. There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.
3. Life is sexually transmitted.
4. Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
5. The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
I’m not that old, relatively speaking (62), but I frequently have to stop and translate the words, expressions, slang, and idioms I employ in my lectures to late teen/early twenties college students.
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.
I don’t know what world you live in, but 75 is elderly. Everywhere.
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.
AROUND THE CURVE
LICKETY-SPLIT*
BEAUTIFUL CAR
WASN’T IT?
Burma Shave!
Fine words butter no parsnips!
My son 8 has a watch phone
I call it his Dick Tracy phone
All the kids say. Whose that ?
Ants in your pants. Too many Bees in her bonnet. That dog don’t hunt.
I can imagine how kids today would interpret the nose.