chicot60
01-30-2016, 04:56 PM
Would you recognize the word Murgatroyd? - Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
The other day, a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her son about
driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said what the heck is
a Jalopy? OMG (new phrase!) - he had 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 -
by Richard Lederer
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become
obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases
included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a
broken record" and "Hung out to dry."
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib
and tucker to straighten up and fly right - Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like
Flynn and living the life of Riley and even a regular guy couldn't
accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.
Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell but when's the last time
anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and
the D.A, of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and
pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap and before we
can say, well I'll be a monkey's uncle!/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?
Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
The other day, a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her son about
driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said what the heck is
a Jalopy? OMG (new phrase!) - he had 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 -
by Richard Lederer
About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become
obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases
included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a
broken record" and "Hung out to dry."
Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie. We'd put on our best bib
and tucker to straighten up and fly right - Heavens to Betsy!
Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were in like
Flynn and living the life of Riley and even a regular guy couldn't
accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.
Not for all the tea in China!
Back in the olden days, life used to be swell but when's the last time
anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and
the D.A, of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and
pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here but he isn't anymore.
We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap and before we
can say, well I'll be a monkey's uncle!/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?