My friend, Judy K., is a very young 97 years old. Sharp as a tack and still driving and using technology. She is amazing. I received this email from her last week and thought it was very cute. Some of us are of an age and will remember using these "long gone" words. I actually still use a good many of them!! Enjoy the chuckles!!
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word
murgatroyd?
murgatroyd?
Lost words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really!
The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is a Jalopy? 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.
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 moly!
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? (Or gay, when it meant happy!)
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 changeable 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!
Thanks for your visit today! Have a blessed Sunday! Peace & hugs.
Loved this ..I still say a lot of those things, too. Hope you have a great SONday....less adventurous than yesterday! And drier! 😄
ReplyDelete{{{big smiles}}}---we use some of those expressions...I guess it is all how one is raised...so, I must be really older than my 49,lololololol.
ReplyDeleteHave a beautiful day Terri.
I loved this post Terri!!
ReplyDeleteI haven't heard those sayings in years. lol
ReplyDeleteHave a great day!
Yup, there's some I still use ... usually 'moxie.'
ReplyDeleteAh, mergatroyd! The (ugly) red rambler station wagon my parents bought me back in '67 was christened, Mergatroyd. :)
That is just too funny! The car I learned to drive in was a pickle green rambler station wagon!! Great memories!
DeleteWell, now I feel old because I recognize all of those! LOL Just kidding. I am a word nerd and love any kind of word play. This was great!
ReplyDeleteOh how I laughed when I read these and it did bring back good memories. Have a nice afternoon.
ReplyDeleteThat was fun! I think I knew them all. A few weeks ago, Laura called here after the girls had spent the night and said that Alaina had started saying "Heavens to Murgatroyd" and she knew exactly where she learned that one. :) (it was Bob)
ReplyDeleteNow that's pretty funny! I can almost hear her saying that big word!!
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