I’m
sorry if you don’t recognize any of these. If you
don't, ask me or your grandmother.
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Heavens to
Murgatroyd !!!
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Would
you believe
the email
spell checker
did not
recognize the
word,
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?"
He never heard
of the word
jalopy!!
...... or a
rattle trap?
She
knew she was
old but not
that old.
Well,
I hope you are
Hunky Dory
after you read
this.
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 phrases
gone?
Long
gone: Pshaw,
The milkman
did it.
Hey! It's your
nickel. ...
Don't forget
to pull the
chain.k
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!.......
After While
Crocodile.
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