Grins for Geezers

unknown | 5/20/2017 | self

[Bigg Red]

Yet we still use the term “dial” for inputting a number to connect to.

[Daffynition]

Gag me with a spoon

[READINABLUESTATE]

Groovy man

[Bigg Red]

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.

[Bigg Red]

The cat’s pajamas.

[camle]

hark!

[dforest]

Now that was “the bee’s knees”!

[dforest]

It was also “he best thing since sliced bread”!

[Daffynition]

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.

[Bigg Red]

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”.

[dforest]

Hillary has “bats in her belfry”.

[BruceS]

I am rapidly closing in on Social Security (I am old enough that I actually expect to receive it) and was thinking about how things have changed and then changed again in my lifetime. Kids today not only don't really know what a record is, but many of them will not understand a CD. Most of them don't know what a modem sounds like. Audio tape (whether in a cassette or reel-to-reel) is foreign.

***sigh***

Even sadder is that many of them do not know what it means to have truly free speech.

[GreenHornet]

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.

[WKUHilltopper]

Well, 23 skee doo!

[YouGoTexasGirl]

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.

[superfries]

Coolorator

[YouGoTexasGirl]

adding machine

mix master

Dime store

soda pop

[Night Hides Not]

I get quizzical looks or mild laughter when I show younger folks a picture of my first "job": keeping score at a bowling alley.

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

[mplsconservative]

Ben Franklin five and dime

chocolate phosphate

[Jamestown1630]

https://www.artofdrink.com/soda/chocolate-phosphate