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 “Don’t 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. 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 olden 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.
Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn’t anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, well I’ll be a monkey’s 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 we’ve left behind. We blink, and they’re gone. Where have all those phrases gone?
Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It’s your nickel. Don’t forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I’ll see you in the funny papers. Don’t 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. It’s one of the greatest advantages of aging.
See ya later, alligator, after a while crocodile!
Not to worry ..I won’t drop a dime on you.
Stop lollygagging and get it into gear.
Get a grip...get a handle on yourself..
Tonight we are hobnobbing with the upper crust.
Just a stone’s throw away.
You’ve never snapped a whip?
Most people today couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.
I always liked, “that’s about as useful as hen shit on a pump handle.”
Not just that. He was well known for consensual activity as well.
At least he’s not afraid of work.
He stands right next to it.
Mud Flaps!
OH man.....you are so right!! Mr. & Mrs. are in jeopardy also!
Glad to know theres two of us!
true!
Anyone remember “cozy wing”??
” I’m gonna split”
“Don’t let the door hit ya where the Lord split ya!”
“He’s/ she’s got cooties”
What does that mean? Lice? Bad vibes?
Cat’s pajamas?
My dad used to say “I’m gonna cloud up and rain all over you” which meant don’t even think about doing that again.
My grandma would say “want in one hand and sh.. in the other and see which fills up faster”
No such thing as a rust bucket anymore since cars are made of plastic
What's a wedding?
One of my old relatives whose parents were born in Scotland used the idiom "a-" before a verb to mean someone was in the process of doing something.
"He was a-goin' to the racetrack, when..."
"She was a-whoopin' an' a-hollerin' when she saw that polecat..."
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