Not for the younger crowd
Not that we are older.....
Heavens to Mergatroyd!
Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!
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 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.
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!" 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 great 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. Wake up and smell the roses.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)
Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...
See ya later, alligator! Okidoki.
You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S and 60's... NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN .. WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED FOR US BY THE "GREATEST GENERATION!"
8-)
Heavens to Mergatroyd!
Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!
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 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.
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!" 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 great 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. Wake up and smell the roses.
It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)
Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...
See ya later, alligator! Okidoki.
You'll notice they left out "Monkey Business"!!!
WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S and 60's... NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN .. WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED FOR US BY THE "GREATEST GENERATION!"
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They also gave us Roe vs Wade, Schools without prayer, LGBT, RE-APORTIONMENT, VIET NAM 
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Now remember how to turn on the Tv. or fix the rabbit ears. Or a coin box on a bus. 0 -
as a kid I remember snaglepuss the cartoon ( had to look up which cartoon it was ) saying it but no one else ( a lot of southern slang was what I grew up with )
this is from the internet
What's the origin of the phrase 'Heavens to Murgatroyd'? 'Heavens to Murgatroyd' is American in origin and dates from the mid 20th century. The expression was popularized by the cartoon character Snagglepuss - a regular on the Yogi Bear Show in the 1960s, and is a variant of the earlier 'heavens to Betsy'.0 -
Nifty thread........ 0 -
My dad used to say ? That?s the word with the bark on it!? I never understood what that meant.
?There?s more than on way to skin a cat!? Makes an interesting mental picture, doesn?t it?0 -
mmppres wrote:Now remember how to turn on the Tv. or fix the rabbit ears. Or a coin box on a bus.
When my dad wanted to watch locally blacked out Cleveland Browns games getting reception from far off stations, I WAS THE TV RABBIT EARS. I had to stand there and hold onto the antenna so he could see a fuzzy, double image for parts of the game!!!!
Ah the good ole' days.0 -
I'm 63 yo.
So I know everyone of those sayings.
I help my take care of my younger friend"s {32 & 34yo] kids, age 1, 4, 6.
I always use those sayings and the kids love it!!!
You have to see the looks on older people's faces, when the 6 yo boy, Says goodbye to them : "after a while crocodile".
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fatcat458 wrote:They also gave us Roe vs Wade, Schools without prayer, LGBT, RE-APORTIONMENT, VIET NAM
And for some reason, you all better get checked for hepatitis.
Old farts. :roll:
Seriously, some of you are OK. But you gotta admit a huge portion of that generation
is really screwed up. And so are their kids. it rolls downhill.0 -
Great cartoons and music in that era. However...
Tuning the tv with needle nosed pliers with only 3 stations was a trip.
The draft was scary, so were Korea and Nam.
The Air Raid drill with the Russians are comming notions.
Uncle's fear tactics are still out there. Just different.0 -
thinking of our fist TV and the few after having the repair man sop by to replace a tube on a I would guess 50.00 to 75>00 set at the most I do not recal getting a new one , also the local stores had the check your tube counter plug in the suspect tube if bad under the top was a selection or replacements for the do it yourself . then In 9th grade I took a course in electronics went out and bought my own can of contact cleaner ( found the most common issue the contacts on the channel selector a shot of cleaner worked miracles on all 3 channels
and a cheap soldering iron started repairing mom and dads TV my self . now I would not know where to even begin every thing is throw away
and yes I recall having a large TV maybe a 20" wow :shock: with a small tv on top for the sound no money to have it fixed so made due until better times come along .
oh passing thought we had the only phone around the apartments we lived in so most all the other came over to call back home ( Tennessee or Kentucky ) but us kids were forbidden to use it . or answer it , parents were afraid of collect calls . my mom and dad have been gone for some time
funny but my one of sister's still keeps the phone active after 50+ years its the same number all the semi lost distant family have that number0 -
DUCK & COVER Never knew anyone who paid attention or even talked about it. Just another stupid commercial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMnKNHNfznE
Actually if you see the flash, it's too late if bomb is close, retinas burned out if close enough. Don't worry, you'll get lots of time to Duck and Cover. (Ha, Ha, Ha) you'll be vaporized before you can say Duck. Not to mention your eyes went wide at just the wrong time.0 -
and several of the old words that have new meanings today
crack,
coke,
Gay,
rubbers,
tools,
thongs,
Hook Up
Maybe this last one should be at the top of the list?
DEMOCRAT (was ok and a good thing few years ago. Today means a political party that SUCKS.0 -
Going to the TV repair shop or western Auto with Dad to plug tubes into the checker machine and determine which tube was needed to fix the tv, drooling over the shotgun for sale not behind any counters or security control at Woolworths, collecting bottle tops, soda bottles, chewing gum cards and S&H stamps, getting the catalogs around Christmas time and circling all the things we probably were not going to get, putting playing cards on your bicycle spokes with clothespins to make a noise, waiting on the milk man to come put milk and dairy products in the box outside especially on the rare occasions we got to order chocolate milk, service stations that could perform service!
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It's not only words that die in society. Men are losing their testosterone levels and their role as the breadwinner and head of the household is fast passing. Marriage is also obsolete unless your a happy couple too!~Causacaians are not having children and old one's life expectancy is falling. Soon there will be no resemblance to our society like it was in the 1950's.
serf
https://www.livescience.com/972-men-testosterone-die.html
About 20 percent of the men with normal testosterone levels died during the course of the study, compared with 24.6 percent of men with varying levels and 34.9 percent of those with low levels.
Men with low testosterone levels had an 88 percent increase in risk of death compared with those who had normal levels. The effect persisted even after variables such as age, other illnesses and body mass index were controlled for.
https://online.aurora.edu/single-parent-households/
The typical American family structure has changed. According to the Pew Research Center, many people are waiting to get married or not getting married at all. In 2012, the median age at first marriage for women was 27 and for men was 29, up from 20 for women and 23 for men in 1960. One in five adults age 25 and older in 2012 had never married, up from roughly one in 10 adults in 1960.
As a result, the number of children in nontraditional households, especially single parent households, has increased significantly. The Heritage Foundation reports that in 1964, 93 percent of children born in the United States were born to married parents. But in 2010, only 59 percent of children were born to married couples.0 -
...and Mr. Joy strikes again. Motto: Turning every song into a dirge. 0 -
Rocky Raab wrote:...and Mr. Joy strikes again. Motto: Turning every song into a dirge.
Facts don't lie and America for better or worst can be discerned. The Nuclear family since time immemorial is dying here in The USA. Men are losing their traditional role in society. Big government with the welfare state and middle-class workers jobs fast disappearing is a fact.2015 was the tipping point.
serf
https://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/the-long-death-of-americas-middle-class-2/0
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