Posted on 05/30/2017 5:00:59 AM PDT by sodpoodle
This is for mature citizens because the younger generation wouldn't understand it.
Words used before 'R' rated movies.
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word "Murgatroyd"? Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
The other day a not-so-elderly (65) lady said something to her son about driving a "jalopy" and he looked at her quizzically and said, “What the heck is a jalopy?” OMG (new) phrase! 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 old 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 old 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 D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers.
Button hooks
You’re the bees knees!
I still have a phone-company edition rotary phone that I saved - nice solid “machine” with excellent sound. When we last had a land-line, about 6 years ago, it still worked. I wonder if it would work today?
As long as the lines were intact, we could make and receive calls without electricity. I miss that, when the power goes out for more than eight hours.
Jeepers, that sounds good. We never walk out of there empty handed.
I remember my Great Aunt (born 1890) would refuse to wear a seat belt (back in my day all we had were actual "belts" that went across the waist). Her reason? "I'll just jump out of the jalopy before we crash"
I always thought it might have been something she saw Buster Keaton do in a silent movie.
I had a friend back in the ‘80s who refused to wear it because she wanted to be ‘thrown from the flaming wreckage’.
My granny had one of the crank phones. I thought that thing was so cool. She had a Victrola, too. And my first computing experience was with punch cards. Those were tools of the devil.
My question: why does new-fangled have to look so freaking fugly? Ex: Why can’t my spiffy new stove look less like a tin box and more like an Aga?
We go in there and *graze* ...fill up so we can skip a meal!
When the *fudge* lady sees me coming....she puts the samples away! LOL
You need anything while I’m there?
We’ll see if Mildred’s Dairy Bar is open for the season.
LOL! Now, THAT IS a slideout!
Sold the rig - may get another one Real Soon Now. It will have a slideout!
And then there was the Flinstons “...you’ll have a gay old time”. But some terms/phrases remain eternal such as “FU democrats”!
You can buy modern stoves and other appliances that look old-fashioned; Emira Stove Works and Northstar come to mind:
http://www.elmirastoveworks.com/antique/ranges/
I love those. Lehman’s, in Ohio, carries them. They are gorgeous. I don’t why so many people who design stuff these days think functional has to be fugly.
‘davenport’
My chore as a kid, on Sat. mornings, was to brush the ‘davenport’. It was made of velvet and horse hair.
After while, crocodile.
icebox
Keep your shirt on!
Upstairs in the hallway, there was a clothes chute where you dropped the clothes and they landed in the clothes basket in the basement.
I still have my grandmother's huge ironing machine which was a big long steam roller thing and you sat in front of it to do the ironing......
I was just thinking of that term. When I was in grade school in the 1950s, one of the nuns used that term for a car. My mother explained to me that quite a few older people used that word.
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