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.
My Dad, who worked for Burroughs at the time, had given us a Commodore and Texas Instruments.
He extolled how we need learn how to use these to become more productive and “Blah, blah, blah” was all I heard and he too exclaimed they would be in every home.
“Pffft!!! Eeeeh Yeah, right!!!”
5 years later I meet Woz and Jobs, TJ Rogers, Lowenstern, Oshman, Moore, Corrigan, McNealy, and more.
WTF did I know???
Somehow, when we envisioned ‘videophone’ back in the 1960s it seemed a lot more exciting that how it has turned out to be:
http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/a-brief-history-of-the-videophone-that-almost-was-1214969187
Nancy Pelosi. Rosa DeLauro. Maxine Waters.
Today, I don't know anyone who does ironing like our mothers used to do, even with a mangler. But an interesting artifact.
Put it in the Rolodex
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Now see here, you whippersnappers, these sayings have been in use since Hector was a pup, by cracky!
Turns out that the astronauts were also using the HP 41C and made their own program. A couple of their HPs are in Museums.
I think one is at Brown...which is where my granddaughter will start her graduate studies in the fall.
As it so happens, there is one at the Computer Museum in Mountain View, CA....
I don’t remember hearing that one until the late 1980s or early 1990s.
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