Lost Words from our Childhood

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[llevrok]

The two agreeable and inubitable gophers were Looney Tune’s Mac and Tosh. Disney had Chip and Dale (Chipmunks).

[llevrok]

Nowadays gay means homosexual

There was a 1934 Fred and Ginger musical called "The Gay Divorcee". It had nothing to do with homosexuality

From IMDb - "An American woman travels to England to seek a divorce from her absentee husband, where she meets - and falls for - a dashing performer."

[Slyfox]

The Gay 90s in the 1800s was way different than the Gay 90s of the 1900s.

[Nateman]

You want way back? Try 23 skadoo or seeing the elephant!

[dfwgator]

[dfwgator]

I recall when seeing the phrase “Made In Japan” was worth a grin. I was presumed that the item was poorly made. Then....the 70’s happened

Then it became a Live Album....

[TonyM]

Words never heard from kids today: please and thank you.

[nopardons]

Cute, but NO 75 year old would know what a jalopy was, nor use that term today, unless she watched old movies from the 1930s!

Killroy Was Here, is from the cartoonish bald man with big and a HUGE nose and two hands looking over a wall drawing, that WW II G.I.s would leave scrawled, where they were fighting/station.

And a whole LOT of those terms are are quite old Holy Moley is well over 100 years old! ) , though they were still in use for many decades!

[Bob434]

wicked good post- we always used to say when we burped “Pardon Me, I meant to puke” - that was pretty popular-

[Windflier]

Man alive! It’s a doggone shame how many old idioms have bit the dust, isn’t it?

Our language was much more colorful, back when we still had a more or less homogeneous American culture.

Beats the pants off me, why it all went the way of the Studebaker.

[nopardons]

You want even older stuff"

"Hittin' the gong around" meant smoking opium ( usually in an opium den ) and goes back to the late 1800s, though it was still in use in the early 1930s.

[Windflier]

I am too old to follow fashions, so piss on tehm if i use the polite terms I grew up with.

Well, I'm a 65 year old 'negro'. I was also raised to be polite to everyone, and to never discriminate on the basis of race.

Perhaps you'll do a fellow old codger a favor and refrain from calling me a negro.

'Black' will do just fine, thanks, although I prefer 'American'.

[dfwgator]

Ok, ok, you remember this one from SNL

Word Association

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9TS1pRmajU

Nope, couldn’t do this one today

[21twelve]

I thought it was a swell list.

(Reading my dad’s letters from WWII. He used the word “swell” a lot!)

[dfwgator]

This thread is really keen.

[nopardons]

It was Jesse Jackson who insisted that everyone use "BLACK" and then...he DEMANDED that we all use the term "AFRICAN AMERICAN", which is just dumb, since Egypt is also in Africa, Boers, from RSA, who come here and have kids have AFRICAN AMERICAN progeny, and on and on and on!

At least "BLACK" is the English translation of "NEGRO".

OTOH...AMERICAN is THE best term to call you, my FRiend!

[nopardons]

It’s also “neato”!

[metmom]

What a trip down memory lane.

[Windflier]

Boers, from RSA, who come here and have kids have AFRICAN AMERICAN progeny

You're right about that. I used to work with a South African guy who used to joke that he was one of the few real African-Americans in SoCal .. LOL

Thanks for the kind words, friend.

[V K Lee]

We were the “Blessed Generation”.
Our fears were born, not at home, not in country.
Our FEARS were born far, far away. Vietnam, Cold War, and Nuclear BOMBS.

We enjoyed the simple things: back yard barbecues, snow cones, and bookmobiles.
Our fears were seen as we watched movies such as “The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”, “Tarantula”, “King Kong”, “Creature from the Black Lagoon”; laughable now, but as a young child, they could be seen as super scary stuff.

It’s only a movie.