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Remember When Nostalgia (4)
Where did they go? Funny WWII era phrases. Lost Words from our childhood. Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really! The other day a not so elderly 65 year old lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said what the heck is a Jalopy? OMG (new) phrase! He never heard of the word jalopy!! She knew she was old but not that old Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle. A while back was illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included:

  • "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry."

  • Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right.

  • Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley!

  • We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley, and even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

  • Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell?

  • Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers.

  • Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, well I'll be a monkey's uncle! or, This is a fine kettle of fish! we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.



  • Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those phrases gone?

  • Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel.

  • Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper.

  • Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels.

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills This can be disturbing stuff ! We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeful times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging. See ya later, alligator!


[Source: Frontlines of Freedom | March 26, 2016 ++]
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Brain Teaser Date | Phrase
What's this common phrase?

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Have You Heard? ► The Balcony | The Scottish Cop
A man lay sprawled across three entire seats in a theater. When the usher came by and noticed this, he whispered to the man, "Sorry sir, but you're only allowed one seat."

The man didn't budge. The usher became more impatient. "Sir, if you don't get up from there I'm going to have to call the manager."

Once again, the man just muttered and did nothing. The usher marched briskly back up the aisle, and in a moment he returned with the manager. Together the two of them unsuccessfully tried repeatedly to get the man to move. Finally they summoned a police officer.

The officer surveyed the situation briefly then asked, "All right buddy what's your name?"

"Fred," the man moaned.

"Where you from, Fred?" asked the police officer.

In an obviously strained voice, and without moving, Fred replied:

"The balcony......."



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A London lawyer runs a stop sign and gets pulled over by a Scottish cop. He thinks that he is smarter than the cop because he is a lawyer from LONDON and is certain that he has a better education then any Scottish cop. He decides to prove this to himself and have some fun at the Scottish cop's expense.

Scottish cop says, "License and registration, please."

London Lawyer says, "What for?"

Scottish cop says, "Ye didnae come to a complete stop at the stop sign."

London Lawyer says, "I slowed down, and no one was coming."

Scottish cop says, "Ye still didnae come to a complete stop. License and registration, please.”

London Lawyer says, "What's the difference?"

Scottish cop says, "The difference is, ye huvte come to complete stop, that's the law. License and registration, please!"

London Lawyer says, “If you can show me the legal difference between slow down and stop, I'll give you my license and registration and you give me the ticket. If not, you let me go and don't give me the ticket."

Scottish cop says, "Sounds fair. Exit your vehicle, sir.

The London Lawyer exits his vehicle.

The Scottish cop takes out his baton and starts beating the living crap out of the lawyer and says, "Daeye want me to stop or just slow down?"


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I imagine that the grandpa of the Republican Party, the Party

of Lincoln, would respond to the current Republican primaries

like this. 

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