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.
Yet we still use the term “dial” for inputting a number to connect to.
Gag me with a spoon
Groovy man
When I was growing up “colored” was considered the polite term, and referring to someone as a “black” person was considered rude. Also, “negro” was going out of favor at that time, at least in my region.
The cat’s pajamas.
hark!
Now that was “the bee’s knees”!
It was also “he best thing since sliced bread”!
I believe it’s called a clothes mangler. Used most for linens and sheets, IIRC.
My aunts had one, shortly after they got wringer washing machines. Beasty looking contraption. Back in those days of stay-at-home moms, everything was ironed....even the underwear.
OMW!My mother used to say “hark” all of the time. For some reason, even though I use a lot of her words, I have never gotten into the habit of saying “hark”.
Hillary has “bats in her belfry”.
***sigh***
Even sadder is that many of them do not know what it means to have truly free speech.
If you see a tall man standing next to a short man, and refer to them as “Mutt and Jeff”, people under the age of 45 will have no idea what you are talking about.
Well, 23 skee doo!
He/She is such a dope.
Feeling Groovy.
Hung out to dry.
Someone used to say battle axe...but I don’t know what that meant....
Hob nob.
Coolorator
adding machine
mix master
Dime store
soda pop
Thanks to monthly semipro tournaments in the SF Bay Area, I'd make from $40-$50 on those weekends, in addition to the $10-$15 I made during the week. That wasn't bad in the late 60s.
Thanks to the hours I spent at the alley, I became quite proficient in playing pinball. My ROTC "handle" was "Pinball Wizard", i.e. my call sign on weekend exercises. I was awarded it after my friends saw my skills at a bar near campus. lol
Ben Franklin five and dime
chocolate phosphate
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