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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 Anonymousreply 370July 23, 2018 7:39 AM

What about us?

by Anonymousreply 1June 6, 2018 9:25 PM

You've got mail

by Anonymousreply 2June 6, 2018 9:27 PM

May I ask who’s calling?

by Anonymousreply 3June 6, 2018 9:28 PM

Do you mind if I use your phone?

by Anonymousreply 4June 6, 2018 9:31 PM

We can put a man on the moon, but we can’t...

by Anonymousreply 5June 6, 2018 10:05 PM

How's tricks?

by Anonymousreply 6June 6, 2018 10:06 PM

Take a memo.

Did you send that Telex?

by Anonymousreply 7June 6, 2018 10:08 PM

"Don't touch that dial!"

by Anonymousreply 8June 6, 2018 10:10 PM

"X" called it wants "y" back

by Anonymousreply 9June 6, 2018 10:11 PM

Can you xerox this for me?

by Anonymousreply 10June 6, 2018 10:12 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 11June 6, 2018 10:13 PM

"You children are behaving like wild Indians!"

by Anonymousreply 12June 6, 2018 10:13 PM

I’ve got more “X” than Carter has little pills.

by Anonymousreply 13June 6, 2018 10:16 PM

I'm getting a busy signal!

by Anonymousreply 14June 6, 2018 10:20 PM

Chill out!

by Anonymousreply 15June 6, 2018 10:23 PM

It's 11 o'clock. Do you know where your children are?

by Anonymousreply 16June 6, 2018 10:23 PM

My beeper is going crazy.We need to find a phone booth.

by Anonymousreply 17June 6, 2018 10:24 PM

"I was working late last evening so I taped my favorite show."

by Anonymousreply 18June 6, 2018 10:24 PM

I’ll call you later, page me.

by Anonymousreply 19June 6, 2018 10:24 PM

I was about three seconds too late.

by Anonymousreply 20June 6, 2018 10:25 PM

Some Lydia Pinkham should set you right as rain!

by Anonymousreply 21June 6, 2018 10:25 PM

You're a retarded indian giver!

by Anonymousreply 22June 6, 2018 10:27 PM

"Leave a message on my machine!"

(these kinds of threads so often end up being mostly about telephones)

"I have the video!"

by Anonymousreply 23June 6, 2018 10:29 PM

I’ll call you in the morning or my service will explain.

by Anonymousreply 24June 6, 2018 10:31 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 25June 6, 2018 10:31 PM

We never said "retarded Indian Giver" we just said, "Indian Giver!"

by Anonymousreply 26June 6, 2018 10:31 PM

[quote]We need to find a phone booth.

LOL

by Anonymousreply 27June 6, 2018 10:33 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 28June 6, 2018 10:34 PM

Look it up in the Yellow Pages!

by Anonymousreply 29June 6, 2018 10:43 PM

[quote]I’ve got more “X” than Carter has little pills.

That's liver pills, Rose.

by Anonymousreply 30June 6, 2018 10:45 PM

23 skidoo.

by Anonymousreply 31June 6, 2018 10:47 PM

"Jew someone down" to mean negotiate a price.

by Anonymousreply 32June 6, 2018 10:47 PM

Ooh, rewind that! I want to see/hear that again.

by Anonymousreply 33June 6, 2018 10:48 PM

I need to make a long-distance call.

by Anonymousreply 34June 6, 2018 10:50 PM

Expressions of astonishment such as:

Land o' Goshen!

Land sakes!

Sakes alive!

Oh my heavenly days!

by Anonymousreply 35June 6, 2018 10:51 PM

"Awesome" is pretty much not used anymore, especially with the Gen Y crowd. Now everything is "lit".

by Anonymousreply 36June 6, 2018 10:52 PM

Mod

Ultra mod

by Anonymousreply 37June 6, 2018 10:53 PM

"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 Anonymousreply 38June 6, 2018 10:53 PM

"My stars!!"

"One ringy dingy"

"You're welcome."

by Anonymousreply 39June 6, 2018 10:56 PM

Be Kind, Rewind.

by Anonymousreply 40June 6, 2018 10:57 PM

"Cash or check?"

by Anonymousreply 41June 6, 2018 10:57 PM

The swinging sounds of summer!

OUTASIGHT!

That's so groovy of you.

by Anonymousreply 42June 6, 2018 10:58 PM

From here to Timbuktu

by Anonymousreply 43June 6, 2018 10:58 PM

Wash and set.

by Anonymousreply 44June 6, 2018 10:59 PM

Sock it to me!

by Anonymousreply 45June 6, 2018 10:59 PM

wet my whistle

by Anonymousreply 46June 6, 2018 10:59 PM

Does anyone have some white out?

by Anonymousreply 47June 6, 2018 11:00 PM

I'll Xerox it and send it over.

by Anonymousreply 48June 6, 2018 11:01 PM

Call me collect

by Anonymousreply 49June 6, 2018 11:01 PM

I think he may be homosexual.

by Anonymousreply 50June 6, 2018 11:01 PM

I will wash your mouth out with soap

by Anonymousreply 51June 6, 2018 11:02 PM

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 Anonymousreply 52June 6, 2018 11:02 PM

"6th Floor, Ladies Lingerie"

by Anonymousreply 53June 6, 2018 11:02 PM

What’s your fax number?

by Anonymousreply 54June 6, 2018 11:02 PM

Legitimate Theater?

by Anonymousreply 55June 6, 2018 11:04 PM

He's so neat!

by Anonymousreply 56June 6, 2018 11:04 PM

Help Wanted Domestic

by Anonymousreply 57June 6, 2018 11:04 PM

IN COLOR!

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by Anonymousreply 58June 6, 2018 11:04 PM

Neato!

by Anonymousreply 59June 6, 2018 11:04 PM

The bee's knees

by Anonymousreply 60June 6, 2018 11:04 PM

Typing class

by Anonymousreply 61June 6, 2018 11:06 PM

There's already a phone in the apartment. I just need to get it turned on.

by Anonymousreply 62June 6, 2018 11:06 PM

I'd prefer to sit in the smoking section

by Anonymousreply 63June 6, 2018 11:07 PM

Help Wanted - Male

Help Wanted - Female

by Anonymousreply 64June 6, 2018 11:07 PM

You’re so gay

by Anonymousreply 65June 6, 2018 11:07 PM

1-976-8585

by Anonymousreply 66June 6, 2018 11:08 PM

The great USA

by Anonymousreply 67June 6, 2018 11:08 PM

look for the union label.

by Anonymousreply 68June 6, 2018 11:10 PM

At the tone, the time will be...4:55 exactly.

by Anonymousreply 69June 6, 2018 11:12 PM

go to school in New Haven

be sent down from Oxford... Cambridge

by Anonymousreply 70June 6, 2018 11:12 PM

Homosexual? Why I don't think so, he's just a confirmed bachelor!

by Anonymousreply 71June 6, 2018 11:12 PM

For kids who grew up in the 70s:

Squeeze the nickel until the Indian screams.

Squeeze the nickel until the buffalo shits.

by Anonymousreply 72June 6, 2018 11:13 PM

Anyone with a question should raise his hand.

by Anonymousreply 73June 6, 2018 11:13 PM

That filthy slut wore WHITE on her wedding day!

by Anonymousreply 74June 6, 2018 11:14 PM

I've had sufficient. / I've had an elegant sufficiency.

by Anonymousreply 75June 6, 2018 11:15 PM

Pass the Aquanet

by Anonymousreply 76June 6, 2018 11:15 PM

If you keep spending like that, you're gonna end up in the poor house!

by Anonymousreply 77June 6, 2018 11:15 PM

I think I may be pregnant.

by Anonymousreply 78June 6, 2018 11:15 PM

He doesn't have a pot to piss in!

by Anonymousreply 79June 6, 2018 11:16 PM

air hostess. stewardess

by Anonymousreply 80June 6, 2018 11:16 PM

Padon me, Madam, ....

by Anonymousreply 81June 6, 2018 11:17 PM

Catch you on the flip side!

by Anonymousreply 82June 6, 2018 11:17 PM

I'm getting the busy signal.

by Anonymousreply 83June 6, 2018 11:18 PM
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by Anonymousreply 84June 6, 2018 11:19 PM

How much did you spend? Do you think we're the Rockefellers?

by Anonymousreply 85June 6, 2018 11:20 PM

I'm free, white, and 21.

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by Anonymousreply 86June 6, 2018 11:20 PM

Billy's in his room playing with his chemistry set.

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by Anonymousreply 87June 6, 2018 11:21 PM

I think I might be a lesbian.

by Anonymousreply 88June 6, 2018 11:21 PM

Come hell or high water I will!

by Anonymousreply 89June 6, 2018 11:21 PM

Aint no stoppin' us now!

by Anonymousreply 90June 6, 2018 11:22 PM

Going down the manhole

Man overboard

by Anonymousreply 91June 6, 2018 11:22 PM

I spent the weekend at the baths.

by Anonymousreply 92June 6, 2018 11:23 PM

Coffee, tea or me?

by Anonymousreply 93June 6, 2018 11:24 PM

I haven't a Chinaman's chance in winning this.

by Anonymousreply 94June 6, 2018 11:24 PM

Before the war.

After the war.

by Anonymousreply 95June 6, 2018 11:24 PM

Lace-curtain Irish

by Anonymousreply 96June 6, 2018 11:25 PM

Yellow peril

by Anonymousreply 97June 6, 2018 11:26 PM

a room at Mrs. Fisher's boarding house

by Anonymousreply 98June 6, 2018 11:26 PM

Two toilet Irish.

by Anonymousreply 99June 6, 2018 11:26 PM

Far out

Don't bogart that joint

Let's go see the double feature

by Anonymousreply 100June 6, 2018 11:26 PM

This is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you!

by Anonymousreply 101June 6, 2018 11:27 PM

"She's in the family way."

by Anonymousreply 102June 6, 2018 11:27 PM

Last weekend someone tried to pay with a check in the little boutique I clerk at. I just laughed in disbelief.

by Anonymousreply 103June 6, 2018 11:28 PM

You little dickens!

by Anonymousreply 104June 6, 2018 11:28 PM

buggery buggering

by Anonymousreply 105June 6, 2018 11:28 PM

Its playing at the retro house

by Anonymousreply 106June 6, 2018 11:29 PM

Look at the knockers on her!!!

by Anonymousreply 107June 6, 2018 11:30 PM

Why buy the cow if the milk is free?

by Anonymousreply 108June 6, 2018 11:31 PM

A whore's bath

by Anonymousreply 109June 6, 2018 11:31 PM

I stopped at the creamery and picked up a pie and some ice cream

by Anonymousreply 110June 6, 2018 11:32 PM

You send me!

by Anonymousreply 111June 6, 2018 11:32 PM

hitchhike out to P-town

by Anonymousreply 112June 6, 2018 11:32 PM

Fill it up premium, please and check the oil.

by Anonymousreply 113June 6, 2018 11:33 PM

Leave a note for the milkman

by Anonymousreply 114June 6, 2018 11:35 PM

[quote]Fill it up premium, please and check the oil.

Do it your fucking self, lady!

by Anonymousreply 115June 6, 2018 11:36 PM

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 Anonymousreply 116June 6, 2018 11:37 PM

Women's Libber

by Anonymousreply 117June 6, 2018 11:38 PM

I'd like to pay with my green stamps!

by Anonymousreply 118June 6, 2018 11:40 PM

Can't wait to get this girdle off! (my mpm)

by Anonymousreply 119June 6, 2018 11:40 PM

Don’t be a jew

by Anonymousreply 120June 6, 2018 11:41 PM

Gotta swing by the FotoMat on my way home

by Anonymousreply 121June 6, 2018 11:41 PM

Pass me the funnies please

by Anonymousreply 122June 6, 2018 11:42 PM

He asked me to enjoy his letterman’s sweater

by Anonymousreply 123June 6, 2018 11:44 PM

Man up!

Mankind

by Anonymousreply 124June 6, 2018 11:45 PM

Hillary for Prez

by Anonymousreply 125June 6, 2018 11:49 PM

Have you no decency, sir?

by Anonymousreply 126June 6, 2018 11:50 PM

Swell!

What a dreamboat/ he’s so dreamy

Radical! Gag me with a spoon!

by Anonymousreply 127June 6, 2018 11:51 PM

Oprah better get herself hitched or she'll wind up an old maid!

by Anonymousreply 128June 6, 2018 11:53 PM

“Facts of life” used to mean teaching your kids about sex.

After the show, no one uses that term anymore

by Anonymousreply 129June 6, 2018 11:54 PM

Buddy could you spare me a quarter?

by Anonymousreply 130June 6, 2018 11:54 PM

Be kind, please rewind.

by Anonymousreply 131June 6, 2018 11:59 PM

stash the loot in a locker at the bus terminal.

by Anonymousreply 132June 7, 2018 12:02 AM

she packed her bag and got out of town

by Anonymousreply 133June 7, 2018 12:03 AM

Or just, "get out of town!!!"

by Anonymousreply 134June 7, 2018 12:03 AM

we better scram

by Anonymousreply 135June 7, 2018 12:03 AM

sent upstate sent up the River

by Anonymousreply 136June 7, 2018 12:04 AM

It's my bingo night. It's my Mahjong night.

Bridge night.

by Anonymousreply 137June 7, 2018 12:07 AM

That’s all she wrote

by Anonymousreply 138June 7, 2018 12:07 AM

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 Anonymousreply 139June 7, 2018 12:08 AM

Do people still say "three sheets to the wind"?

by Anonymousreply 140June 7, 2018 12:09 AM

"Smoking or NON -Smoking, window or aisle?"

by Anonymousreply 141June 7, 2018 12:09 AM

Solid State Technology

by Anonymousreply 142June 7, 2018 12:09 AM

Made in the USA

by Anonymousreply 143June 7, 2018 12:11 AM

"yes, this is the lady of the residence, speaking"

by Anonymousreply 144June 7, 2018 12:11 AM

"Please ask for our vegetarian menu."

by Anonymousreply 145June 7, 2018 12:12 AM

"You have to marry her. That child deserves a name."

by Anonymousreply 146June 7, 2018 12:13 AM

Queer as pink ink

by Anonymousreply 147June 7, 2018 12:13 AM

Letters addressed to boys as "Master So and So"

by Anonymousreply 148June 7, 2018 12:14 AM

Fat hips sink ships

by Anonymousreply 149June 7, 2018 12:16 AM

Please hang up and dial again.

by Anonymousreply 150June 7, 2018 12:16 AM

Are you a friend of Dorothy?

by Anonymousreply 151June 7, 2018 12:17 AM

You can say that again

by Anonymousreply 152June 7, 2018 12:17 AM

That and a dime will get you a phone call

by Anonymousreply 153June 7, 2018 12:18 AM

"Here's a quarter; run down to the store and get me a pack of cigarettes" - said to an 8 year old.

by Anonymousreply 154June 7, 2018 12:20 AM

On our vacation we stayed at the Howard Johnson's hotel and our room had a Magic Fingers Vibrating Bed.

by Anonymousreply 155June 7, 2018 12:20 AM

“Am-scray, sister. Beat it.”

by Anonymousreply 156June 7, 2018 12:21 AM
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by Anonymousreply 157June 7, 2018 12:22 AM

We went to Florida too, r155.

by Anonymousreply 158June 7, 2018 12:22 AM

My dad just bought a new Oldsmobile. It's a big step up from our old Pontiac.

by Anonymousreply 159June 7, 2018 12:24 AM

Jury-rigged

Jerry-rigged

by Anonymousreply 160June 7, 2018 12:25 AM

I'd like a seat in the non-smoking section.

by Anonymousreply 161June 7, 2018 12:27 AM

I always thought “the bees knees” should make a comeback

by Anonymousreply 162June 7, 2018 12:27 AM

Not an expression but crank calls have disappeared because we all know the number calling

by Anonymousreply 163June 7, 2018 12:27 AM

Do you want to play Candy Land or Chutes and Ladders?

by Anonymousreply 164June 7, 2018 12:27 AM

Brazil nuts referred to as n****r toes.

by Anonymousreply 165June 7, 2018 12:40 AM

He has cooties

by Anonymousreply 166June 7, 2018 12:45 AM

reform school

by Anonymousreply 167June 7, 2018 12:51 AM

Home for unwed mothers.

by Anonymousreply 168June 7, 2018 12:55 AM

The truant officer!

by Anonymousreply 169June 7, 2018 12:57 AM

Vamping

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by Anonymousreply 170June 7, 2018 12:57 AM

Peggy Sue Got Married

Or will she?

by Anonymousreply 171June 7, 2018 12:58 AM

Now just a cotton picking minute

by Anonymousreply 172June 7, 2018 1:00 AM

You're gonna get paddled!

by Anonymousreply 173June 7, 2018 1:03 AM

Now scoot

by Anonymousreply 174June 7, 2018 1:06 AM

Marcie, Harold and I just got pinned! I'm in heaven!

by Anonymousreply 175June 7, 2018 1:15 AM

Dear John letter

by Anonymousreply 176June 7, 2018 1:16 AM

Totes adorbs (hopefully)

by Anonymousreply 177June 7, 2018 1:39 AM

Blank cassette tapes

by Anonymousreply 178June 7, 2018 1:39 AM

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 Anonymousreply 179June 7, 2018 1:40 AM

Lady of the evening - (prostitute)

Strumpet - (prostitute -female)

Man of the Cloth

Penmanship

Greek - Anal Sex

French - Oral Sex

by Anonymousreply 180June 7, 2018 1:40 AM

I still use GREEK. If you don't understand it you're in for surprise anal.

by Anonymousreply 181June 7, 2018 1:44 AM

Referring to someone as an Oriental or a half breed

by Anonymousreply 182June 7, 2018 1:50 AM

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 Anonymousreply 183June 7, 2018 1:51 AM

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 Anonymousreply 184June 7, 2018 1:59 AM

Man, that's bitchen'!

by Anonymousreply 185June 7, 2018 2:02 AM

Lots of the straight chicks who come here still use Oriental.

by Anonymousreply 186June 7, 2018 2:02 AM

Don't fuck me without a condom

by Anonymousreply 187June 7, 2018 2:28 AM

This place is happening!

by Anonymousreply 188June 7, 2018 2:31 AM

Nancy boy

by Anonymousreply 189June 7, 2018 2:39 AM

With all my heart I still love the man I killed.

by Anonymousreply 190June 7, 2018 2:53 AM

Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delight!

by Anonymousreply 191June 7, 2018 3:05 AM

mimeograph machine

international operator

trunk call

by Anonymousreply 192June 7, 2018 3:09 AM

Judas Priest!

by Anonymousreply 193June 7, 2018 3:18 AM

"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 Anonymousreply 194June 7, 2018 3:18 AM

Hello, operator? I'd like to make a person-to-person call.

by Anonymousreply 195June 7, 2018 3:30 AM

A/S/L?

by Anonymousreply 196June 7, 2018 3:49 AM

Set up the TV trays

by Anonymousreply 197June 7, 2018 4:00 AM

[quote]Gotta swing by the FotoMat on my way home

Who used to say that, YOU?

by Anonymousreply 198June 7, 2018 4:05 AM

Is your daughter high yella ?

by Anonymousreply 199June 7, 2018 4:05 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 200June 7, 2018 4:09 AM

We have a colored girl 2 days a week

by Anonymousreply 201June 7, 2018 4:13 AM

"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 Anonymousreply 202June 7, 2018 4:13 AM

Would you grab the club? It’s behind my seat - gotta lock thus baby up.

by Anonymousreply 203June 7, 2018 4:44 AM

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 Anonymousreply 204June 7, 2018 5:10 AM

Older than Methusaleh

Higher than a kite

Do you have Prince Albert in a can? Is your refrigerator running? (crank calls)

by Anonymousreply 205June 7, 2018 5:41 AM

There will never be a worse crook in office than Dick Nixon

by Anonymousreply 206June 7, 2018 5:42 AM

Take two of these and call me in the morning.

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by Anonymousreply 207June 7, 2018 6:58 AM

[He is/you are] a tall drink of water!

by Anonymousreply 208June 7, 2018 8:32 AM

My Sides! ..Oh wait?!

by Anonymousreply 209June 7, 2018 11:07 AM

Fair to middling

by Anonymousreply 210June 7, 2018 11:31 AM

[quote] "Yes ma'am" and 'yes, sir"

These are still in heavy rotation in the South by people of all ages.

by Anonymousreply 211June 7, 2018 11:34 AM

[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.

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by Anonymousreply 212June 7, 2018 1:02 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 213June 7, 2018 1:04 PM

Back it up, r213?

by Anonymousreply 214June 7, 2018 1:15 PM

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 Anonymousreply 215June 7, 2018 1:20 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 216June 7, 2018 1:21 PM

"Land of Goshen!"

"Roll down/up the window"

by Anonymousreply 217June 7, 2018 1:28 PM

"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 Anonymousreply 218June 7, 2018 1:37 PM

R213, my sister's kids say something like "go back" or "play that part/scene back." To fast-forward is to "go up."

by Anonymousreply 219June 7, 2018 1:37 PM

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 Anonymousreply 220June 7, 2018 1:42 PM

I still say rewind as well. And fast forward. I suspect many people who grew up using VCRs still do.

by Anonymousreply 221June 7, 2018 1:43 PM

It's a horse a piece

by Anonymousreply 222June 7, 2018 1:46 PM

Any expression in which women are referred to as broads, battle-axes, or old bags.

by Anonymousreply 223June 7, 2018 2:22 PM

Loveable goofball.

by Anonymousreply 224June 7, 2018 2:23 PM

"Pearls in your oysters" as parting greeting.

by Anonymousreply 225June 7, 2018 3:35 PM

R208: I think that has evolved into the related but more current ‘The Thirst is Real’.

by Anonymousreply 226June 7, 2018 3:39 PM

Won't someone think of the children?!!

by Anonymousreply 227June 7, 2018 3:47 PM

Try jewing them down on the price

by Anonymousreply 228June 7, 2018 3:48 PM

Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to be considered for the Gal Friday advertised in this week's Pennysaver.

by Anonymousreply 229June 7, 2018 3:48 PM

"Please," "Thank you" and "You're welcome."

by Anonymousreply 230June 7, 2018 3:52 PM

The early bird gets the worm !

by Anonymousreply 231June 7, 2018 3:53 PM

Luncheon, Supper

Years ago dinner was an afternoon meal; supper later.

by Anonymousreply 232June 7, 2018 3:54 PM

Mom! Turn on the radio so we can see if school is closed because of the snow.

by Anonymousreply 233June 7, 2018 4:06 PM

She’s a “homemaker.”

“No woman of mine is getting a job!”

by Anonymousreply 234June 7, 2018 4:06 PM

A gorgeous hunk of man !

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by Anonymousreply 235June 7, 2018 4:15 PM

Close the door! Where you born in a barn?

by Anonymousreply 236June 7, 2018 4:18 PM

The DM is full of phrases that seem to be from another time - 'pert posterior', 'slim pins', 'raven locks'.

by Anonymousreply 237June 7, 2018 4:19 PM

Jeepers!

by Anonymousreply 238June 7, 2018 4:41 PM

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 Anonymousreply 239June 7, 2018 4:43 PM

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 Anonymousreply 240June 7, 2018 4:49 PM

Run that by me one more time?

by Anonymousreply 241June 7, 2018 7:50 PM

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 Anonymousreply 242June 7, 2018 8:48 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 243June 7, 2018 9:22 PM

Where is you goin' gurl?

The movie house across the way!

by Anonymousreply 244June 7, 2018 9:25 PM

"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.

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by Anonymousreply 245June 7, 2018 9:25 PM

"My telephone was ringing off the hook as I came inside my apartment. "

by Anonymousreply 246June 7, 2018 9:28 PM

Prime Time Network TV Ratings Success

by Anonymousreply 247June 7, 2018 9:43 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 248June 7, 2018 9:50 PM

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 Anonymousreply 249June 7, 2018 9:52 PM

I say How's tricks. Despite it being bad grammar!

by Anonymousreply 250June 7, 2018 9:53 PM

R249 is Lucy Van Pelt

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by Anonymousreply 251June 7, 2018 10:00 PM

"We pump ethyl." -- old gas station sign

by Anonymousreply 252June 7, 2018 10:07 PM

" You're welcome" has been replaced by " No problem." This means that if it were a problem, the person wouldn't do it.

by Anonymousreply 253June 7, 2018 10:08 PM

Please.

Thank you.

You're welcome.

by Anonymousreply 254June 7, 2018 11:29 PM

Rewind the tape before returning it.

by Anonymousreply 255June 7, 2018 11:29 PM

r241 was addressing r240.

by Anonymousreply 256June 7, 2018 11:31 PM

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 Anonymousreply 257June 7, 2018 11:36 PM

[quote]Please.

Gurl, please...

by Anonymousreply 258June 7, 2018 11:41 PM

You old battle-ax!

by Anonymousreply 259June 7, 2018 11:46 PM

Oh, my momma went on to glory some twenty years ago.

by Anonymousreply 260June 8, 2018 12:10 AM

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 Anonymousreply 261June 8, 2018 12:27 AM

I hope "just sayin'" will be among the next to disappear.

by Anonymousreply 262June 8, 2018 12:32 AM

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 Anonymousreply 263June 8, 2018 12:36 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 264June 8, 2018 4:23 PM

We stayed up talking until the cows came home.

by Anonymousreply 265June 8, 2018 4:34 PM

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 Anonymousreply 266June 8, 2018 5:03 PM

My soles have worn down again. I’ve got to get over to the cobbler.

by Anonymousreply 267June 9, 2018 10:52 AM

"I Like Ike"

by Anonymousreply 268June 9, 2018 1:24 PM

Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite.

by Anonymousreply 269June 9, 2018 1:35 PM

He-man. She-male.

by Anonymousreply 270June 9, 2018 1:57 PM

Merry Christmas.

by Anonymousreply 271June 9, 2018 1:57 PM

He's a little light in the loafers.

by Anonymousreply 272June 9, 2018 1:59 PM

You need to get off the internet. I have to use the phone.

by Anonymousreply 273June 9, 2018 2:29 PM

If you're going to Sears, we need more film and flashbulbs.

by Anonymousreply 274June 9, 2018 2:32 PM

She forgot to bring her Brownie but he was able to buy a disposable camera at the drugstore.

by Anonymousreply 275June 9, 2018 2:41 PM

Waiting for the TV to warm up.

by Anonymousreply 276June 9, 2018 3:16 PM

Don't forget to save a copy of your work on a floppy disk!

by Anonymousreply 277June 9, 2018 3:38 PM

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 Anonymousreply 278June 9, 2018 3:50 PM

R278, in the same way, I always thought somehow it was related to Cadillacs. I couldn’t figure it out, either.

by Anonymousreply 279June 9, 2018 4:16 PM

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 Anonymousreply 280June 9, 2018 4:32 PM

That’s fuckin hilarious R280!

by Anonymousreply 281June 9, 2018 4:35 PM

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."

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by Anonymousreply 282June 10, 2018 3:37 AM

Gag me with a spoon!

by Anonymousreply 283June 10, 2018 6:44 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 284June 10, 2018 6:51 AM

r42, nobody "rocks on with your bad self," either.

by Anonymousreply 285June 10, 2018 6:53 AM

I still say "dreamy" and award-winning movie makeup artist Ve Neill still says "groovy" on TV!

by Anonymousreply 286June 10, 2018 6:58 AM

Right on.

by Anonymousreply 287June 10, 2018 6:59 AM

Everybody still says "early bird gets the worm."

by Anonymousreply 288June 10, 2018 7:08 AM

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 Anonymousreply 289June 10, 2018 7:09 AM

Dickweed.

by Anonymousreply 290June 10, 2018 7:13 AM

r263 would like the closely related "Can it!", "Put a lid on it!" or "Zip it!"

by Anonymousreply 291June 10, 2018 7:15 AM

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 Anonymousreply 292June 10, 2018 7:20 AM

[quote]Everybody still says "early bird gets the worm."

And I always say "The second mouse gets the cheese."

by Anonymousreply 293June 10, 2018 7:46 AM

R285 can dig it!

by Anonymousreply 294June 10, 2018 9:39 AM

Oh, that's the truth - it got it straight from the horse's mouth!

by Anonymousreply 295June 10, 2018 11:45 PM

You're such a spaz!!!...

Until the DL Spaz troll recently brought it back.

by Anonymousreply 296June 11, 2018 12:40 AM

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Where's my change purse?

Housecoat

Bed jacket

by Anonymousreply 297June 11, 2018 1:16 AM

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 Anonymousreply 298June 11, 2018 1:20 AM

R277 - which format?

by Anonymousreply 299June 11, 2018 1:45 AM

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 Anonymousreply 300June 11, 2018 1:49 AM

Put the milk in the Frigidaire.

by Anonymousreply 301June 11, 2018 1:50 AM

That's the ticket!

by Anonymousreply 302June 11, 2018 2:06 AM

Now you're cooking with gas!

by Anonymousreply 303June 11, 2018 2:09 AM

No tickee no shirtee.

Wait until your father gets home!

Jesus Mary and Joseph!

He's a wetback.

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by Anonymousreply 304June 11, 2018 2:11 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 305June 11, 2018 8:28 AM

Don’t take any wooden nickels!

by Anonymousreply 306June 12, 2018 4:32 PM

A capital idea!

by Anonymousreply 307June 12, 2018 8:30 PM

WAAAASSSSSSSUUUPPPPPP

by Anonymousreply 308June 12, 2018 8:41 PM

Not much, R308, how are you doin’?

Oh, wait.

by Anonymousreply 309June 12, 2018 9:00 PM

Very old but amusing expression (40s? 50s?): Let's make like a tree and leave.

by Anonymousreply 310June 12, 2018 9:29 PM

Shave 'em dry.

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by Anonymousreply 311June 12, 2018 9:37 PM

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 Anonymousreply 312June 12, 2018 11:45 PM

"I've seen better legs on a piano"

by Anonymousreply 313June 20, 2018 12:27 AM

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 Anonymousreply 314June 20, 2018 12:37 AM

Chinese fire drill

Chomping or champing at the bit

Verrrrry interesting

All het up

Woulda shoulda coulda

Tossed his cookies

by Anonymousreply 315June 20, 2018 12:58 AM

Black as the ace of spades

by Anonymousreply 316June 20, 2018 1:03 AM

What you see is what you get

by Anonymousreply 317June 20, 2018 1:07 AM

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 Anonymousreply 318June 20, 2018 1:12 AM

Give it to Mikey

by Anonymousreply 319June 20, 2018 1:36 AM

Hi Guy

Mona!

by Anonymousreply 320June 20, 2018 2:05 AM

This is the pits!

It’s from hunger

by Anonymousreply 321June 20, 2018 2:07 AM

Eat it! Eat it raw!

by Anonymousreply 322June 20, 2018 2:10 AM

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

"You'll catch your death of cold"

by Anonymousreply 323June 20, 2018 2:17 AM

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 Anonymousreply 324June 20, 2018 2:34 AM

Soda Jerk

Elevator operator

Ladies notions

He died from "Consumption"

Street car conductor

Extreme Unction

by Anonymousreply 325June 20, 2018 3:35 PM

Barkeep! Whiskey! Leave the bottle.

by Anonymousreply 326June 20, 2018 11:41 PM

Please check under the hood and the tires while you're at it.

by Anonymousreply 327June 21, 2018 12:07 AM

Landsakes! Golly! Gosh! Woopsadaisies!

by Anonymousreply 328June 21, 2018 12:10 AM

Goody gumdrops!

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

What a dreamboat! (I still use this.)

by Anonymousreply 329June 21, 2018 8:04 PM

I'll be excommunicated!

by Anonymousreply 330June 21, 2018 8:55 PM

You bet your sweet bippy!

by Anonymousreply 331July 18, 2018 8:12 PM

Fly the friendly skies.

by Anonymousreply 332July 18, 2018 8:23 PM

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 Anonymousreply 333July 18, 2018 8:41 PM

Fuck that noise

by Anonymousreply 334July 18, 2018 10:08 PM

Goody Goody Gumdrops

by Anonymousreply 335July 18, 2018 10:17 PM

"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 Anonymousreply 336July 18, 2018 11:05 PM

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 Anonymousreply 337July 22, 2018 6:19 PM

That’s so gay

by Anonymousreply 338July 22, 2018 6:22 PM

Fat-free

Lite

by Anonymousreply 339July 22, 2018 6:23 PM

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 Anonymousreply 340July 22, 2018 6:27 PM

Better dead than red

by Anonymousreply 341July 22, 2018 6:27 PM

Ring around the collar!

Deader than a doornail

A lick and a promise

Shotgun wedding

The customer is always right

Burned the clutch

by Anonymousreply 342July 22, 2018 6:33 PM

Sounds like a broken (skipped) record

Turn the album over

B side

Tape deck

Running board

Cap gun

by Anonymousreply 343July 22, 2018 6:53 PM

Go outside and play. Come back when the street lights come on.

by Anonymousreply 344July 22, 2018 6:54 PM

Scarcer than hen’s teeth.

Don’t take any wooden nickels

by Anonymousreply 345July 22, 2018 6:55 PM

Does anyone have a returnable dime?

(If you lived in a dorm and were making a collect call)

by Anonymousreply 346July 22, 2018 6:56 PM

Tough buns, as in "You ran out of cigarettes? Tough buns." Alternatively, "tough titty."

by Anonymousreply 347July 22, 2018 6:59 PM

Don't go out with wet hair, you'll catch a cold.

The word prejudiced instead of racist.

by Anonymousreply 348July 22, 2018 7:11 PM

Ice box

Beer joint

tee-tee

by Anonymousreply 349July 22, 2018 7:13 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 350July 22, 2018 7:24 PM

The flashing blue light is still on aisle 7 For 2 minutes.

by Anonymousreply 351July 22, 2018 7:50 PM

Calling all cars! Calling all cars!

Dial up

Cuban heel boots

by Anonymousreply 352July 22, 2018 7:53 PM

I'll have the thousand island on my salad.

by Anonymousreply 353July 22, 2018 7:53 PM

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 Anonymousreply 354July 22, 2018 7:58 PM

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 Anonymousreply 355July 22, 2018 7:59 PM

Oriental

by Anonymousreply 356July 22, 2018 7:59 PM

Let's pick up some odds and ends at Woolworths.

Let's stop at the Sinclair and ask directions.

by Anonymousreply 357July 22, 2018 7:59 PM

Divining rod

Dowsing

by Anonymousreply 358July 22, 2018 8:02 PM

Or, the 5 and dime.

by Anonymousreply 359July 22, 2018 8:02 PM

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 Anonymousreply 360July 22, 2018 8:03 PM

Summer rerun

by Anonymousreply 361July 22, 2018 8:07 PM

Cops & robbers

Horse opera

Bermuda shorts

Spit curl

Nightclub act

Alternative rock radio

by Anonymousreply 362July 22, 2018 8:14 PM

Stylin

Bitchin

by Anonymousreply 363July 22, 2018 8:20 PM

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 Anonymousreply 364July 22, 2018 8:39 PM

Call collect and reverse the charges.

by Anonymousreply 365July 22, 2018 8:39 PM

R360 just brought back memories for me. Thanks.

“When you wish upon a star...”

by Anonymousreply 366July 22, 2018 8:47 PM

Operator, this is an emergency, get me the police.

by Anonymousreply 367July 22, 2018 8:47 PM

two bits

Cat's meow

Rumble seat

vagabond

hobo

moving pictures

boob tube

wooden nickel

by Anonymousreply 368July 23, 2018 7:26 AM

You’re welcome, R366. I miss that ritual.

by Anonymousreply 369July 23, 2018 7:31 AM

Grody

Gnarly

by Anonymousreply 370July 23, 2018 7:39 AM
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