Expressions that have disappeared in our lifetimes.
"There are PEOple STAAARVING in AFrica!"
Well there are still people starving in Africa (and everywhere else) but it was a common expression my youth and I haven't heard it said in years.
Expressions that have disappeared in our lifetimes. Corny or otherwise.
by Anonymous | reply 370 | July 23, 2018 7:39 AM
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Do you mind if I use your phone?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | June 6, 2018 9:31 PM
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We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t...
by Anonymous | reply 5 | June 6, 2018 10:05 PM
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"X" called it wants "y" back
by Anonymous | reply 9 | June 6, 2018 10:11 PM
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Can you xerox this for me?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | June 6, 2018 10:12 PM
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[quote]"X" called it wants "y" back
Who says this? The chromosome family?
Just kidding, but unfortunately I do hear this expression still from time to time. Makes me cringe.
This is going to be a great thread I think.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | June 6, 2018 10:13 PM
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"You children are behaving like wild Indians!"
by Anonymous | reply 12 | June 6, 2018 10:13 PM
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I’ve got more “X” than Carter has little pills.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | June 6, 2018 10:16 PM
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I'm getting a busy signal!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | June 6, 2018 10:20 PM
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It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | June 6, 2018 10:23 PM
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My beeper is going crazy.We need to find a phone booth.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | June 6, 2018 10:24 PM
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"I was working late last evening so I taped my favorite show."
by Anonymous | reply 18 | June 6, 2018 10:24 PM
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I’ll call you later, page me.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | June 6, 2018 10:24 PM
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I was about three seconds too late.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | June 6, 2018 10:25 PM
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Some Lydia Pinkham should set you right as rain!
by Anonymous | reply 21 | June 6, 2018 10:25 PM
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You're a retarded indian giver!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | June 6, 2018 10:27 PM
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"Leave a message on my machine!"
(these kinds of threads so often end up being mostly about telephones)
"I have the video!"
by Anonymous | reply 23 | June 6, 2018 10:29 PM
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I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | June 6, 2018 10:31 PM
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[quote]My beeper is going crazy.
I never heard anyone say that.
[quote]We need to find a phone booth.
I think they'd just say phone.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | June 6, 2018 10:31 PM
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We never said "retarded Indian Giver" we just said, "Indian Giver!"
by Anonymous | reply 26 | June 6, 2018 10:31 PM
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[quote]We need to find a phone booth.
LOL
by Anonymous | reply 27 | June 6, 2018 10:33 PM
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[quote]my service will explain.
Never heard that either.
You sound like one of those bad TV shows set in the past, that get it all wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | June 6, 2018 10:34 PM
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Look it up in the Yellow Pages!
by Anonymous | reply 29 | June 6, 2018 10:43 PM
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[quote]I’ve got more “X” than Carter has little pills.
That's liver pills, Rose.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | June 6, 2018 10:45 PM
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"Jew someone down" to mean negotiate a price.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | June 6, 2018 10:47 PM
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Ooh, rewind that! I want to see/hear that again.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | June 6, 2018 10:48 PM
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I need to make a long-distance call.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | June 6, 2018 10:50 PM
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Expressions of astonishment such as:
Land o' Goshen!
Land sakes!
Sakes alive!
Oh my heavenly days!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | June 6, 2018 10:51 PM
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"Awesome" is pretty much not used anymore, especially with the Gen Y crowd. Now everything is "lit".
by Anonymous | reply 36 | June 6, 2018 10:52 PM
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"If you have a touch-tone phone...press 7 - otherwise please hold for an operator".
[quote]"Awesome" is pretty much not used anymore, especially with the Gen Y crowd. Now everything is "lit".
I thought awesome had been replaced by AMAZING!
by Anonymous | reply 38 | June 6, 2018 10:53 PM
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The swinging sounds of summer!
OUTASIGHT!
That's so groovy of you.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | June 6, 2018 10:58 PM
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Does anyone have some white out?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | June 6, 2018 11:00 PM
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I'll Xerox it and send it over.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | June 6, 2018 11:01 PM
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I think he may be homosexual.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | June 6, 2018 11:01 PM
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I will wash your mouth out with soap
by Anonymous | reply 51 | June 6, 2018 11:02 PM
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No one I knew ever said GROOVY and I grew up then, with siblings in their teens. Even we second graders thought it was lame.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | June 6, 2018 11:02 PM
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"6th Floor, Ladies Lingerie"
by Anonymous | reply 53 | June 6, 2018 11:02 PM
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There's already a phone in the apartment. I just need to get it turned on.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | June 6, 2018 11:06 PM
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I'd prefer to sit in the smoking section
by Anonymous | reply 63 | June 6, 2018 11:07 PM
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look for the union label.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | June 6, 2018 11:10 PM
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At the tone, the time will be...4:55 exactly.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | June 6, 2018 11:12 PM
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go to school in New Haven
be sent down from Oxford... Cambridge
by Anonymous | reply 70 | June 6, 2018 11:12 PM
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Homosexual? Why I don't think so, he's just a confirmed bachelor!
by Anonymous | reply 71 | June 6, 2018 11:12 PM
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For kids who grew up in the 70s:
Squeeze the nickel until the Indian screams.
Squeeze the nickel until the buffalo shits.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | June 6, 2018 11:13 PM
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Anyone with a question should raise his hand.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | June 6, 2018 11:13 PM
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That filthy slut wore WHITE on her wedding day!
by Anonymous | reply 74 | June 6, 2018 11:14 PM
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I've had sufficient. / I've had an elegant sufficiency.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | June 6, 2018 11:15 PM
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If you keep spending like that, you're gonna end up in the poor house!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | June 6, 2018 11:15 PM
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I think I may be pregnant.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | June 6, 2018 11:15 PM
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He doesn't have a pot to piss in!
by Anonymous | reply 79 | June 6, 2018 11:16 PM
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Catch you on the flip side!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | June 6, 2018 11:17 PM
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I'm getting the busy signal.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | June 6, 2018 11:18 PM
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How much did you spend? Do you think we're the Rockefellers?
by Anonymous | reply 85 | June 6, 2018 11:20 PM
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Billy's in his room playing with his chemistry set.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 87 | June 6, 2018 11:21 PM
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I think I might be a lesbian.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | June 6, 2018 11:21 PM
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Come hell or high water I will!
by Anonymous | reply 89 | June 6, 2018 11:21 PM
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I spent the weekend at the baths.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | June 6, 2018 11:23 PM
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I haven't a Chinaman's chance in winning this.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | June 6, 2018 11:24 PM
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a room at Mrs. Fisher's boarding house
by Anonymous | reply 98 | June 6, 2018 11:26 PM
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Far out
Don't bogart that joint
Let's go see the double feature
by Anonymous | reply 100 | June 6, 2018 11:26 PM
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This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you!
by Anonymous | reply 101 | June 6, 2018 11:27 PM
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"She's in the family way."
by Anonymous | reply 102 | June 6, 2018 11:27 PM
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Last weekend someone tried to pay with a check in the little boutique I clerk at. I just laughed in disbelief.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | June 6, 2018 11:28 PM
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Its playing at the retro house
by Anonymous | reply 106 | June 6, 2018 11:29 PM
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Look at the knockers on her!!!
by Anonymous | reply 107 | June 6, 2018 11:30 PM
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Why buy the cow if the milk is free?
by Anonymous | reply 108 | June 6, 2018 11:31 PM
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I stopped at the creamery and picked up a pie and some ice cream
by Anonymous | reply 110 | June 6, 2018 11:32 PM
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Fill it up premium, please and check the oil.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | June 6, 2018 11:33 PM
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Leave a note for the milkman
by Anonymous | reply 114 | June 6, 2018 11:35 PM
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[quote]Fill it up premium, please and check the oil.
Do it your fucking self, lady!
by Anonymous | reply 115 | June 6, 2018 11:36 PM
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What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
I walked 5 miles in the snow to get to school.
You forgot to rewind the tape.
Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?
by Anonymous | reply 116 | June 6, 2018 11:37 PM
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I'd like to pay with my green stamps!
by Anonymous | reply 118 | June 6, 2018 11:40 PM
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Can't wait to get this girdle off! (my mpm)
by Anonymous | reply 119 | June 6, 2018 11:40 PM
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Gotta swing by the FotoMat on my way home
by Anonymous | reply 121 | June 6, 2018 11:41 PM
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Pass me the funnies please
by Anonymous | reply 122 | June 6, 2018 11:42 PM
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He asked me to enjoy his letterman’s sweater
by Anonymous | reply 123 | June 6, 2018 11:44 PM
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Have you no decency, sir?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | June 6, 2018 11:50 PM
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Swell!
What a dreamboat/ he’s so dreamy
Radical! Gag me with a spoon!
by Anonymous | reply 127 | June 6, 2018 11:51 PM
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Oprah better get herself hitched or she'll wind up an old maid!
by Anonymous | reply 128 | June 6, 2018 11:53 PM
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“Facts of life” used to mean teaching your kids about sex.
After the show, no one uses that term anymore
by Anonymous | reply 129 | June 6, 2018 11:54 PM
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Buddy could you spare me a quarter?
by Anonymous | reply 130 | June 6, 2018 11:54 PM
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stash the loot in a locker at the bus terminal.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | June 7, 2018 12:02 AM
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she packed her bag and got out of town
by Anonymous | reply 133 | June 7, 2018 12:03 AM
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Or just, "get out of town!!!"
by Anonymous | reply 134 | June 7, 2018 12:03 AM
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sent upstate sent up the River
by Anonymous | reply 136 | June 7, 2018 12:04 AM
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It's my bingo night. It's my Mahjong night.
Bridge night.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | June 7, 2018 12:07 AM
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We've got lots of grass, let's smoke up!
We've got lots of pot, let's smoke up!
Let's smoke this hash. (Whatever happened to hash?)
Roll a spliff.
by Anonymous | reply 139 | June 7, 2018 12:08 AM
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Do people still say "three sheets to the wind"?
by Anonymous | reply 140 | June 7, 2018 12:09 AM
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"Smoking or NON -Smoking, window or aisle?"
by Anonymous | reply 141 | June 7, 2018 12:09 AM
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"yes, this is the lady of the residence, speaking"
by Anonymous | reply 144 | June 7, 2018 12:11 AM
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"Please ask for our vegetarian menu."
by Anonymous | reply 145 | June 7, 2018 12:12 AM
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"You have to marry her. That child deserves a name."
by Anonymous | reply 146 | June 7, 2018 12:13 AM
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Letters addressed to boys as "Master So and So"
by Anonymous | reply 148 | June 7, 2018 12:14 AM
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Please hang up and dial again.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | June 7, 2018 12:16 AM
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Are you a friend of Dorothy?
by Anonymous | reply 151 | June 7, 2018 12:17 AM
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That and a dime will get you a phone call
by Anonymous | reply 153 | June 7, 2018 12:18 AM
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"Here's a quarter; run down to the store and get me a pack of cigarettes" - said to an 8 year old.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | June 7, 2018 12:20 AM
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On our vacation we stayed at the Howard Johnson's hotel and our room had a Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | June 7, 2018 12:20 AM
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“Am-scray, sister. Beat it.”
by Anonymous | reply 156 | June 7, 2018 12:21 AM
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We went to Florida too, r155.
by Anonymous | reply 158 | June 7, 2018 12:22 AM
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My dad just bought a new Oldsmobile. It's a big step up from our old Pontiac.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | June 7, 2018 12:24 AM
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I'd like a seat in the non-smoking section.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | June 7, 2018 12:27 AM
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I always thought “the bees knees” should make a comeback
by Anonymous | reply 162 | June 7, 2018 12:27 AM
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Not an expression but crank calls have disappeared because we all know the number calling
by Anonymous | reply 163 | June 7, 2018 12:27 AM
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Do you want to play Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders?
by Anonymous | reply 164 | June 7, 2018 12:27 AM
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Brazil nuts referred to as n****r toes.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | June 7, 2018 12:40 AM
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Now just a cotton picking minute
by Anonymous | reply 172 | June 7, 2018 1:00 AM
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You're gonna get paddled!
by Anonymous | reply 173 | June 7, 2018 1:03 AM
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Marcie, Harold and I just got pinned! I'm in heaven!
by Anonymous | reply 175 | June 7, 2018 1:15 AM
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Operator, I'd like to make a collect call.
A lady never wears diamonds before evening
"Ma'am, I'll need your husband to co-sign before I sell you this (item) on payment plan"
Children should be seen and not heard
by Anonymous | reply 179 | June 7, 2018 1:40 AM
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Lady of the evening - (prostitute)
Strumpet - (prostitute -female)
Man of the Cloth
Penmanship
Greek - Anal Sex
French - Oral Sex
by Anonymous | reply 180 | June 7, 2018 1:40 AM
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I still use GREEK. If you don't understand it you're in for surprise anal.
by Anonymous | reply 181 | June 7, 2018 1:44 AM
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Referring to someone as an Oriental or a half breed
by Anonymous | reply 182 | June 7, 2018 1:50 AM
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R52, R60, R139 I still say most all of those, with the exception of the word "pot". Grass is where it's at! Sounds groovy. I obviously never stopped smoking.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | June 7, 2018 1:51 AM
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So and so was born a bastard. This word is never used for its original "conceived out of wedlock" status/meaning. Thankfully Mulatto has fallen out of favour too.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | June 7, 2018 1:59 AM
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Lots of the straight chicks who come here still use Oriental.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | June 7, 2018 2:02 AM
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Don't fuck me without a condom
by Anonymous | reply 187 | June 7, 2018 2:28 AM
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With all my heart I still love the man I killed.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | June 7, 2018 2:53 AM
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Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!
by Anonymous | reply 191 | June 7, 2018 3:05 AM
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"Taste me, taste me!' (Doral cigarettes)
"Mom, can I have a dime? I wanna get a Hershey bar." (Circa 1975)
"Lets go to the record store at the mall."
"Has the afternoon paper come yet?"
"Yes ma'am" and 'yes, sir"
"May I please be excused (from the dinner table)?"
by Anonymous | reply 194 | June 7, 2018 3:18 AM
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Hello, operator? I'd like to make a person-to-person call.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | June 7, 2018 3:30 AM
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[quote]Gotta swing by the FotoMat on my way home
Who used to say that, YOU?
by Anonymous | reply 198 | June 7, 2018 4:05 AM
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Is your daughter high yella ?
by Anonymous | reply 199 | June 7, 2018 4:05 AM
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[quote]We've got lots of grass, let's smoke up! We've got lots of pot, let's smoke up! Let's smoke this hash. (Whatever happened to hash?) Roll a spliff
I was a pretty heavy pot smoker for years and never ever did I hear anyone talk about "smoking up" - nor saying "Let's smoke this hash". Maybe it's a Canadian thing or something like that.
by Anonymous | reply 200 | June 7, 2018 4:09 AM
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We have a colored girl 2 days a week
by Anonymous | reply 201 | June 7, 2018 4:13 AM
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"Hang up, I got it!" Hold your horses. Want me to get the belt out? Heavens to Betsy! I'm loaded for bear. What in the Sam Hill are you doing? Barf bag Bogus Dweeb Don't have a cow, man
by Anonymous | reply 202 | June 7, 2018 4:13 AM
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Would you grab the club? It’s behind my seat - gotta lock thus baby up.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | June 7, 2018 4:44 AM
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I'll give you something to cry about.
Never understood that as a kid since my own parents weren't abusive but it was quite common and I often did hear other kids' parents say it. It was only as a adult did get the implicit threat to the kid to quit whining (or just STFU about anything) or you're going to get even worse.
by Anonymous | reply 204 | June 7, 2018 5:10 AM
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Older than Methusaleh
Higher than a kite
Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Is your refrigerator running? (crank calls)
by Anonymous | reply 205 | June 7, 2018 5:41 AM
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There will never be a worse crook in office than Dick Nixon
by Anonymous | reply 206 | June 7, 2018 5:42 AM
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Take two of these and call me in the morning.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 207 | June 7, 2018 6:58 AM
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[He is/you are] a tall drink of water!
by Anonymous | reply 208 | June 7, 2018 8:32 AM
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[quote] "Yes ma'am" and 'yes, sir"
These are still in heavy rotation in the South by people of all ages.
by Anonymous | reply 211 | June 7, 2018 11:34 AM
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[quote]That's liver pills, Rose.
Uh, no R30, not necessarily.
The Carter Co. was known for making Carter’s Little Liver Pills, so either expression is correct.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 212 | June 7, 2018 1:02 PM
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[quote]Ooh, rewind that! I want to see/hear that again.
I still say this. What do you say when you want to go back on a program you’re watching?
by Anonymous | reply 213 | June 7, 2018 1:04 PM
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R214, that makes sense. It’s funny how the expressions you’re used to can sound so ridiculous to someone who doesn’t use them, yet sound perfectly normal to you.
Thanks.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | June 7, 2018 1:20 PM
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[quote]He doesn't have a pot to piss in!
My parents used to say, “He doesn’t have a pot to piss in, or a window to throw it out.” Never quite got that.
[quote]Lace-curtain Irish [quote]Two toilet Irish
What were these referring to? Anyone know what it’s supposed to mean?
[quote]So and so was born a bastard. This word is never used for its original "conceived out of wedlock" status/meaning.
R84 I still use the expression, “we’re being treated like a bastard at a family reunion” once in a while.
by Anonymous | reply 216 | June 7, 2018 1:21 PM
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"Land of Goshen!"
"Roll down/up the window"
by Anonymous | reply 217 | June 7, 2018 1:28 PM
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"My parents used to say, “He doesn’t have a pot to piss in, or a window to throw it out.” Never quite got that."
Apparently in the olden days, people used piss in the making of leather, and leather makers would buy people's piss from them. The very poor would sell theirs. So the saying, doesn't have a pot to piss in, means he's so poor that not only does he need to sell his piss, he doesn't even have a pot to put it in.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | June 7, 2018 1:37 PM
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R213, my sister's kids say something like "go back" or "play that part/scene back." To fast-forward is to "go up."
by Anonymous | reply 219 | June 7, 2018 1:37 PM
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Warm up the car Turn on the TV Set Film at 11:00 I'm the chief bottle washer I'm Mr. Mom today while my wife goes to her female doctor We still have a party line Where's the beef!
by Anonymous | reply 220 | June 7, 2018 1:42 PM
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I still say rewind as well. And fast forward. I suspect many people who grew up using VCRs still do.
by Anonymous | reply 221 | June 7, 2018 1:43 PM
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Any expression in which women are referred to as broads, battle-axes, or old bags.
by Anonymous | reply 223 | June 7, 2018 2:22 PM
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"Pearls in your oysters" as parting greeting.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | June 7, 2018 3:35 PM
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R208: I think that has evolved into the related but more current ‘The Thirst is Real’.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | June 7, 2018 3:39 PM
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Won't someone think of the children?!!
by Anonymous | reply 227 | June 7, 2018 3:47 PM
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Try jewing them down on the price
by Anonymous | reply 228 | June 7, 2018 3:48 PM
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Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to be considered for the Gal Friday advertised in this week's Pennysaver.
by Anonymous | reply 229 | June 7, 2018 3:48 PM
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"Please," "Thank you" and "You're welcome."
by Anonymous | reply 230 | June 7, 2018 3:52 PM
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The early bird gets the worm !
by Anonymous | reply 231 | June 7, 2018 3:53 PM
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Luncheon, Supper
Years ago dinner was an afternoon meal; supper later.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | June 7, 2018 3:54 PM
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Mom! Turn on the radio so we can see if school is closed because of the snow.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | June 7, 2018 4:06 PM
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She’s a “homemaker.”
“No woman of mine is getting a job!”
by Anonymous | reply 234 | June 7, 2018 4:06 PM
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Close the door! Where you born in a barn?
by Anonymous | reply 236 | June 7, 2018 4:18 PM
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The DM is full of phrases that seem to be from another time - 'pert posterior', 'slim pins', 'raven locks'.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | June 7, 2018 4:19 PM
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R100, Don't forget the creature feature. (horror movie showing)
Don't come crying to me if you fall out of that tree and break your neck.
Sit down on the floor Indian-style. (cross-legged)
You're an Indian giver. (someone gives you something, like a shirt they never wear, then asks for it back)
by Anonymous | reply 239 | June 7, 2018 4:43 PM
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I heard she got the sugar. She need to lose some of that weight, if you ask me. I actually tried telling her that, but she got all indignant and tried to give me a piece of her mind over it. Well then, whatever. I guess a fool gonna do what a fool does.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | June 7, 2018 4:49 PM
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Run that by me one more time?
by Anonymous | reply 241 | June 7, 2018 7:50 PM
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I'm excited that Steve McQueen's new picture is finally coming out. The movie house across the way is gonna start showing it tomorrow evening.
by Anonymous | reply 242 | June 7, 2018 8:48 PM
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[quote]The movie house across the way is gonna start showing it tomorrow evening.
Did you really speak like that? "The movie house across the way"?
Some of you would make great movie scriptwriters.
by Anonymous | reply 243 | June 7, 2018 9:22 PM
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Where is you goin' gurl?
The movie house across the way!
by Anonymous | reply 244 | June 7, 2018 9:25 PM
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"An E-ticket ride".... to describe something fun, fast, exciting, or popular.
Its origins were the old ticket booklets which guests had to purchase in order to access rides & attractions at Disneyland and Disney World, back in the 1960s-1970s. There were A, B, C, D, and E tickets. "A-tickets" were for the most boring, little-little-kid things (e.g. Carousel, Sleeping Beauty's castle, Main St. theater), and with each subsequent letter, the rides/attractions got a little more fun & exciting. "E-tickets" were for the newest and/or most popular rides in the park, such as The Matterhorn, Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Haunted Mansion, etc. (without fail, you'd end up with a bunch of unused A & B tickets at the end of the day, because you kept buying booklets to get the D & E tickets). Disney got rid of the ticket booklets in 1981-82, and went to an all-inclusive admission fee.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 245 | June 7, 2018 9:25 PM
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"My telephone was ringing off the hook as I came inside my apartment. "
by Anonymous | reply 246 | June 7, 2018 9:28 PM
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Prime Time Network TV Ratings Success
by Anonymous | reply 247 | June 7, 2018 9:43 PM
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[Quote]The movie house across the way is gonna start showing it tomorrow evening.
I didn't, r243, but some of the older people around me did. This was back when I was a kid in the 1970s.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | June 7, 2018 9:50 PM
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The other day, I said “fussbudget” and was laughed at. Apparently, that is a dead one.
I also say “how’s tricks.” I’m the only one I know of who says it.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | June 7, 2018 9:52 PM
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I say How's tricks. Despite it being bad grammar!
by Anonymous | reply 250 | June 7, 2018 9:53 PM
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"We pump ethyl." -- old gas station sign
by Anonymous | reply 252 | June 7, 2018 10:07 PM
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" You're welcome" has been replaced by " No problem." This means that if it were a problem, the person wouldn't do it.
by Anonymous | reply 253 | June 7, 2018 10:08 PM
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Rewind the tape before returning it.
by Anonymous | reply 255 | June 7, 2018 11:29 PM
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r241 was addressing r240.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | June 7, 2018 11:31 PM
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R247, Remember the Nielsen ratings booklet that would come in the mail with cash? A dollar for every person in the household, and you would have to write down every TV program you saw for the week, and mail it back in.
That was CHOICE.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | June 7, 2018 11:36 PM
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Oh, my momma went on to glory some twenty years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | June 8, 2018 12:10 AM
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A little dab will do you (of Bryll Creem ). The phrase is from the commercial and was so ubiquitous that it was just adopted - knowingly- as a little aside or remark. For example: a bit of whipped cream, or some vegetable or food you didn't particularly like, or a bit of lipstick or blusher. Now the same phrase would give rise to images of the dance move.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | June 8, 2018 12:27 AM
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I hope "just sayin'" will be among the next to disappear.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | June 8, 2018 12:32 AM
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Another one in the hopper! Pipe down! (I) cut my foot on a turd! (Not cut literally - just stepped on.) He went into the outhouse and came out smelling like a rose! Horseshit!!
by Anonymous | reply 263 | June 8, 2018 12:36 AM
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[quote]" You're welcome" has been replaced by " No problem." This means that if it were a problem, the person wouldn't do it.
I hate when people say “no worries.” It always sounds condescending even when it’s not meant to be.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | June 8, 2018 4:23 PM
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We stayed up talking until the cows came home.
by Anonymous | reply 265 | June 8, 2018 4:34 PM
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I actually was a Neilson rater person, R257. I was recovering from knee surgery about five years ago when they called me. I agreed to do it because I was home anyway. They kept thanking me over and over again for being so nice to them on the phone. They gave me five sequential, crisp one-dollar bills along with the booklet. I ended up binge watching The Men Who Made America and all the Nancy Grace-type shows on HLN. I wonder what they thought of that.
by Anonymous | reply 266 | June 8, 2018 5:03 PM
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My soles have worn down again. I’ve got to get over to the cobbler.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | June 9, 2018 10:52 AM
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Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite.
by Anonymous | reply 269 | June 9, 2018 1:35 PM
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He's a little light in the loafers.
by Anonymous | reply 272 | June 9, 2018 1:59 PM
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You need to get off the internet. I have to use the phone.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | June 9, 2018 2:29 PM
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If you're going to Sears, we need more film and flashbulbs.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | June 9, 2018 2:32 PM
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She forgot to bring her Brownie but he was able to buy a disposable camera at the drugstore.
by Anonymous | reply 275 | June 9, 2018 2:41 PM
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Waiting for the TV to warm up.
by Anonymous | reply 276 | June 9, 2018 3:16 PM
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Don't forget to save a copy of your work on a floppy disk!
by Anonymous | reply 277 | June 9, 2018 3:38 PM
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R259 My dad used to call Mom a battle ax. For years, I thought one would spell it Batalax. No clue it was a two-word metaphor.
by Anonymous | reply 278 | June 9, 2018 3:50 PM
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R278, in the same way, I always thought somehow it was related to Cadillacs. I couldn’t figure it out, either.
by Anonymous | reply 279 | June 9, 2018 4:16 PM
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R278, I had thought of it as a weapon to fight off dragons. So, I thought it meant that if a knight forgot his battle ax, he could grab up a mean woman, and fight back the dragon by having her yell at it.
by Anonymous | reply 280 | June 9, 2018 4:32 PM
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That’s fuckin hilarious R280!
by Anonymous | reply 281 | June 9, 2018 4:35 PM
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Someone in one of the Trooping of the Guard threads today asked whether Zara (a variation of Sarah) is a royal name. I posted that in the next to last Gilbert and Sullivan show, the heroine is Princess Zara and what's more British than G&S? What I didn't add in that thread is that in the show, Princess Zara is love with Captain Fitzbattleaxe, who is "beneath her station."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 282 | June 10, 2018 3:37 AM
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r35 left out "Heavens to Betsy!" and "Blue blazes!"
There's a funny exchange between Martin Sheen and Don Cheadle about "Blue blazes!" in the movie TALK TO ME.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 284 | June 10, 2018 6:51 AM
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r42, nobody "rocks on with your bad self," either.
by Anonymous | reply 285 | June 10, 2018 6:53 AM
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I still say "dreamy" and award-winning movie makeup artist Ve Neill still says "groovy" on TV!
by Anonymous | reply 286 | June 10, 2018 6:58 AM
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Everybody still says "early bird gets the worm."
by Anonymous | reply 288 | June 10, 2018 7:08 AM
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Look that up in your Funk & Wagnall's!
Sock it to me, baby!
Here come de judge!
Don't you touch me, don't you EVER touch me!
What you see is what you get!
MIssed me by THAT much!
Stifle!
by Anonymous | reply 289 | June 10, 2018 7:09 AM
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r263 would like the closely related "Can it!", "Put a lid on it!" or "Zip it!"
by Anonymous | reply 291 | June 10, 2018 7:15 AM
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Slang is no longer "all that and a bag of chips."
In fact, the new Jumanji movie makes Nick Jonas say a BUNCH of expired '90s phrases because his character was isolated from that time.
by Anonymous | reply 292 | June 10, 2018 7:20 AM
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[quote]Everybody still says "early bird gets the worm."
And I always say "The second mouse gets the cheese."
by Anonymous | reply 293 | June 10, 2018 7:46 AM
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Oh, that's the truth - it got it straight from the horse's mouth!
by Anonymous | reply 295 | June 10, 2018 11:45 PM
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You're such a spaz!!!...
Until the DL Spaz troll recently brought it back.
by Anonymous | reply 296 | June 11, 2018 12:40 AM
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Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Where's my change purse?
Housecoat
Bed jacket
by Anonymous | reply 297 | June 11, 2018 1:16 AM
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R184 what's wrong with Mulatto, it sounds so much nicer than "Mixed." And, I abhor the practice of referring to a mulatto by only part of their ancestry. The one-drop rule was a racist idea dreamed up by by white supremacists so why has it now been accepted by everyone as true?
by Anonymous | reply 298 | June 11, 2018 1:20 AM
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Card catalog
My dear, departed mom used to say, "That's dirty pool!" She also could tell you how special it was to get a phosphate at the soda fountain.
by Anonymous | reply 300 | June 11, 2018 1:49 AM
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Put the milk in the Frigidaire.
by Anonymous | reply 301 | June 11, 2018 1:50 AM
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Now you're cooking with gas!
by Anonymous | reply 303 | June 11, 2018 2:09 AM
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No tickee no shirtee.
Wait until your father gets home!
Jesus Mary and Joseph!
He's a wetback.
'
by Anonymous | reply 304 | June 11, 2018 2:11 AM
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Late the other night I caught SIXTEEN CANDLES on TV, and boy has that dated in terms of vernacular. Calling girls "babe" and nerds "dweebs" and "fags" makes it sound like a different world and a different country.
I wish we still said "sounds major" with a sarcasm, though.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 305 | June 11, 2018 8:28 AM
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Don’t take any wooden nickels!
by Anonymous | reply 306 | June 12, 2018 4:32 PM
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Not much, R308, how are you doin’?
Oh, wait.
by Anonymous | reply 309 | June 12, 2018 9:00 PM
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Very old but amusing expression (40s? 50s?): Let's make like a tree and leave.
by Anonymous | reply 310 | June 12, 2018 9:29 PM
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R297 - you made me laugh out loud! Bed jacket! We’ve had some cool evenings here in NYC this last week, and my mother commented only today, “I was so chilly watching TV in bed last night, I needed my bed jacket!”
Here’s another one I don’t really hear anymore (but do use myself) “that’s hard cheese” used when something doesn’t go well or as planned for someone:
“Harry thought he was getting promoted, but he lost his job in the merger” “That’s hard cheese for Harry”
by Anonymous | reply 312 | June 12, 2018 11:45 PM
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"I've seen better legs on a piano"
by Anonymous | reply 313 | June 20, 2018 12:27 AM
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Nervous as a whore in church
Naked as a jaybird
Mean as a junkyard dog
Sharp as a tack
Colder than a witch's teat
by Anonymous | reply 314 | June 20, 2018 12:37 AM
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Chinese fire drill
Chomping or champing at the bit
Verrrrry interesting
All het up
Woulda shoulda coulda
Tossed his cookies
by Anonymous | reply 315 | June 20, 2018 12:58 AM
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Black as the ace of spades
by Anonymous | reply 316 | June 20, 2018 1:03 AM
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What you see is what you get
by Anonymous | reply 317 | June 20, 2018 1:07 AM
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Solid as the Rock of Gibraltar
You're in good hands with Allstate
You'll wonder where the yellow went when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent
by Anonymous | reply 318 | June 20, 2018 1:12 AM
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"You'll shoot your eye out!"
"You'll catch your death of cold"
by Anonymous | reply 323 | June 20, 2018 2:17 AM
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Gal Friday jobs in the Help Wanted section of any newspaper How fast can you type? See you later, alligator! In a while, crocodile! May I have this dance? She got pinned! Operator, I need to make a collect call.
by Anonymous | reply 324 | June 20, 2018 2:34 AM
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Soda Jerk
Elevator operator
Ladies notions
He died from "Consumption"
Street car conductor
Extreme Unction
by Anonymous | reply 325 | June 20, 2018 3:35 PM
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Barkeep! Whiskey! Leave the bottle.
by Anonymous | reply 326 | June 20, 2018 11:41 PM
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Please check under the hood and the tires while you're at it.
by Anonymous | reply 327 | June 21, 2018 12:07 AM
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Landsakes! Golly! Gosh! Woopsadaisies!
by Anonymous | reply 328 | June 21, 2018 12:10 AM
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Goody gumdrops!
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
What a dreamboat! (I still use this.)
by Anonymous | reply 329 | June 21, 2018 8:04 PM
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You bet your sweet bippy!
by Anonymous | reply 331 | July 18, 2018 8:12 PM
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Heavens to Betsy! I have just read through R100 and I still use many of these expressions.
Who in the Sam Hill does not?
by Anonymous | reply 333 | July 18, 2018 8:41 PM
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"it's snowing down south." and "Johnny's out of his box" to tell a lady that her slip was showing.
If we left the side door open, when we came home, my mother would say, "I'm not heating 84th St."
Looks like he's been through the wringer.
She looks like she was ridden hard and put back wet.
"Lace Curtain" Irish were well-off, although the term was one of derision used by WASPs, as if they were trying to rise above their station. "Shanty" Irish were ignorant, lower class Irish.
by Anonymous | reply 336 | July 18, 2018 11:05 PM
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Drop a dime on someone
See you in the funny papers
Spiffy
Happy camper
Make like a baker and give me the dough
A couple of swells
Trip the light fantastic
Cheese it — the cops!
Flight of fancy
by Anonymous | reply 337 | July 22, 2018 6:19 PM
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Pizza face (seems they have much better acne medication these days)
Flatsy
Stuffing the bra (everyone over 14 gets breast implants)
Bucky beaver (everyone gets braces nowadays)
Four eyes (glasses are a fashion statement and contacts are an option). Except on Cirb Your enthusiasm “Larry you four eyed FUCK,”
Baldy (shaved heads are common)
So-and- so is a friend of mine, he resembles Frankenstein
When he walks around the house, he resembles Micky Mouse
When he does the Irish jig
He resembles Porky Pig
When he walks across the street
You can smell his stinky feet.
by Anonymous | reply 340 | July 22, 2018 6:27 PM
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Ring around the collar!
Deader than a doornail
A lick and a promise
Shotgun wedding
The customer is always right
Burned the clutch
by Anonymous | reply 342 | July 22, 2018 6:33 PM
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Sounds like a broken (skipped) record
Turn the album over
B side
Tape deck
Running board
Cap gun
by Anonymous | reply 343 | July 22, 2018 6:53 PM
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Go outside and play. Come back when the street lights come on.
by Anonymous | reply 344 | July 22, 2018 6:54 PM
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Scarcer than hen’s teeth.
Don’t take any wooden nickels
by Anonymous | reply 345 | July 22, 2018 6:55 PM
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Does anyone have a returnable dime?
(If you lived in a dorm and were making a collect call)
by Anonymous | reply 346 | July 22, 2018 6:56 PM
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Tough buns, as in "You ran out of cigarettes? Tough buns." Alternatively, "tough titty."
by Anonymous | reply 347 | July 22, 2018 6:59 PM
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Don't go out with wet hair, you'll catch a cold.
The word prejudiced instead of racist.
by Anonymous | reply 348 | July 22, 2018 7:11 PM
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[quote]Drop a dime on someone
This is still used in my neck of the woods.
[quote]Cheese it — the cops!
My friends still say this, though in an ironic fashion. It still gets a laugh.
by Anonymous | reply 350 | July 22, 2018 7:24 PM
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The flashing blue light is still on aisle 7 For 2 minutes.
by Anonymous | reply 351 | July 22, 2018 7:50 PM
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Calling all cars! Calling all cars!
Dial up
Cuban heel boots
by Anonymous | reply 352 | July 22, 2018 7:53 PM
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I'll have the thousand island on my salad.
by Anonymous | reply 353 | July 22, 2018 7:53 PM
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R352, what’s “Cuban heel boots”?
And don’t they still make thousand island dressing, R353? I haven’t looked for it in a while.
by Anonymous | reply 354 | July 22, 2018 7:58 PM
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Garter belt
Take your car to the kid who lives at the end of the street. He can fix anything
Which leads me to “motor heads.”
by Anonymous | reply 355 | July 22, 2018 7:59 PM
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Let's pick up some odds and ends at Woolworths.
Let's stop at the Sinclair and ask directions.
by Anonymous | reply 357 | July 22, 2018 7:59 PM
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Stay tuned, coming up next is Sunday nights’ Wonderful World Of Disney. Households thundered into the LIVING room. *cue image of Tinkerbell, fireworks, and that castle.*
by Anonymous | reply 360 | July 22, 2018 8:03 PM
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R224 After you get that temp position and fill out your timecard with a black ballpoint pen:
"PRESS HARD: You are making three copies"
by Anonymous | reply 364 | July 22, 2018 8:39 PM
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Call collect and reverse the charges.
by Anonymous | reply 365 | July 22, 2018 8:39 PM
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R360 just brought back memories for me. Thanks.
“When you wish upon a star...”
by Anonymous | reply 366 | July 22, 2018 8:47 PM
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Operator, this is an emergency, get me the police.
by Anonymous | reply 367 | July 22, 2018 8:47 PM
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You’re welcome, R366. I miss that ritual.
by Anonymous | reply 369 | July 23, 2018 7:31 AM
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