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[winemaker81]

 

[winemanden]

5) It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

Quizmaster : What happened? You never got one right.

Contestant :Not my fault, I had all the right answers. It was the questions that were wrong!

 

[Boatboy24]

 

[cmason1957]

 

[CheerfulHeart]

@cmason1957 The unsettling part is that makes perfect sense to me.

 

[ibglowin]

 

[cmason1957]

@cmason1957 The unsettling part is that makes perfect sense to me.

I had no trouble deciphering any of it. Now say something about a band from the 1990s or sooner and I got nothing.

 

[cmason1957]

 

[Rocky]

To all of my friends on the forum who are about my vintage:

Do not resent growing old, many are denied the privilege. Irish Proverb

Lost Words, Terms and phrases from Those of us lucky enough to have lived in the 1950s:



Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Murgatroyd!

The other day a not so elderly 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! She knew she was old, but not that old!

Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.

When is the last time you heard these phrases: 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 and straighten up and fly right.

Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumpin jehosophat! and 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. In the blink of an eye 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! After while crocodile. That was left out!

Oki Doki?

WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S. NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN. WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF LIFE'S MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED FOR US BY THE "GREATEST GENERATION!"

 

[Bleedaggie]

 

[ibglowin]

 

[Gilmango]

 

[winemaker81]

View attachment 89506

The question is, "are you old enough to have used a 300 baud modern?" .....

 

[ibglowin]

 

[sour_grapes]

The question is, "are you old enough to have used a 300 baud modern?" .....

What about the kind where you put the telephone handset into those two rubber earmuff things?

 

[ibglowin]

 

[ibglowin]

 

[opus345]

What about the kind where you put the telephone handset into those two rubber earmuff things?

It is called an acoustic coupler and I have used one.

 

[winemaker81]

 

[Boatboy24]