Posted on 01/08/2019 3:57:41 AM PST by sodpoodle
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 Dont touch that dial, Carbon copy, You sound like a broken record and Hung out to dry. Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. Wed 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 couldnt accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but whens 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.
Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isnt anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, well Ill be a monkeys uncle! or This is a fine kettle of fish! We discover that the words we grew up with,- the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.
Poof, go the words of our youth, the words weve left behind. We blink, and theyre gone. Where have all those phrases gone?
Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! Its your nickel. Dont forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. Ill see you in the funny papers. Dont take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd! It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills.
This can be disturbing stuff ! We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. Its one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator, after a while crocodile!
Petting
I know her better than you do, you young whippersnapper!
Believe it or not I heard that expression, the creek dont rise, referred to the Creek Indians uprising...It made sense because what cowboy on a horse worth his salt cant cross creek?
It’s “bats in the belfry”: referring to someone who acts as though he has bats careering around his head.
Whippersnapper:
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/whipper-snapper.html
The meaning of ‘whipper snapper’ has altered over the years, originally referring to a young man with no apparent get up and go, to be applied to a youngster with an excess of both ambition and impudence.
Makes me laugh.
“Living high on the hog”
“High Falooten” sp?
“If you’ve never seen the Bruce Willis movie “Hudson Hawk”...”
Am I the only person in the world who ENJOYED “Hudson Hawk”?
Yes, that’s an old one, too.
“People in hell want snowballs too!.
I heard it as them wanting spring water. Well, I’m REALLY country.
Not even close.
Whippersnapper
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/whipper-snapper.html
Usually when “your father” is mentioned the brat replies “who dat mofo be?”
it refers to when a guys jalopy ( LOL ) broke down or ran out of gas.
Oh, that’s not something I would have considered.
Car enthusiasts still use “jalopy.” A marketing site for classic and unusual cars is called “Jalopnik.” A number of the FR North Carolina page participants are into cars.
Nope, I always felt that "Hudson Hawk" was one of the great recent slapstick comedies produced...
...the scene of the Mona Lisa model smiling was hysterical ... and ...
"Bunny ... ball ... ball".
“It made sense because what cowboy on a horse worth his salt cant cross creek?”
Good Lord willing and the creek don’t rise was used by country folks, especially in Appalachia, for generations.
It meant that if the Lord saw fit to let you live to the day/event in question and the creek wasn’t too rain swollen to wade across then you would be at the place/event in question. Most country folks walked where they needed to go. Horses weren’t commonly ridden by farmers.
http://appalachianmagazine.com/2017/04/23/appalachian-language-lord-willing-and-the-creek-dont-rise/
Most researchers disagree that the saying had anything to do with the Creek Nation.
about his rape charges.
The phone is ringing off the hook.
Fresh! I’m not that kind of a girl!
I have a visit from Aunt Flo.
NOW you’re cookin’ with gas.
Mad money. Carfare.
Sock it to me on the flipside daddy-o, I’m 23 skiddoo.
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