So through with COOL!

[Paisley]

Like, duck soup?

 

[Paisley]

neye-eese ("nice", extreme long-form)

I had a airheaded coworker who said that all. The. Time. That alone makes me glad she's gone.

 

[KY Gentleman]

How about things that were "the BOMB".
"Your hat is the Bomb".

 

[Miss 1940's]

darling, this thread reminds me of the time at the gas station. when that Guy said "Dude is that the girl from the Walgeens Pharmacy? she's Yaking in the Bush outside"! I left my pride in the Bush, among other things! lol

Man, I've got to say, I had no idea this topic would take off like this... just like my dear Miss 1940s put it: It's bigger then Uranium! lol

I'm feelin' better now that I've stopped the usage of "Cool"... I just say swell, or neat! Depends on the context of course. The other day a supervisor asked me to do something, I replied that it would be a "push over" and she asked: What do you mean by that? I said it would be a led pipe synch! She then asked: I don't understand, then I said: Ok, it would be EASY! HAHAHAHAHA!

I've been watching lots of old 30s movies so, I'm really, really trying hard to work those old terms into my daily vocabulary so it would come natural and easy. No room for cool, dude or any other pathetic modern day terms in my mission to develop a colorful and entertaining depression era language. It really is like learning a new language!

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

How about things that were "the BOMB".
"Your hat is the Bomb".

I've some hats that look as if they were hit by a bomb...

 

[Talbot]

Don't zambreck my groteful, I'm scrogglish!

 

[Talbot]

Now that my daughter is in college...

I'm getting a lot of 'epic'

Did you enjoy the meal? 'It was epic'.

How's things? 'epic'

They are deliberately playing with the language.

Maybe that's not a bad thing...

Talbot

 

[Forgotten Man]

How about things that were "the BOMB".
"Your hat is the Bomb".

I'd refrain from the usage of that term on planes.lol

 

[Forgotten Man]

darling, this thread reminds me of the time at the gas station. when that Guy said "Dude is that the girl from the Walgeens Pharmacy? she's Yaking in the Bush outside"! I left my pride in the Bush, among other things! lol

Awww, hahahaha... you sure weren't feelin' that good last Friday! Now you know you need to eat before you take your vicodin honey!

 

[dhermann1]

My great junior high and high school (6 years worth!) science teacher John J Maxwell (is that a science teacher name, or what?) liked to "editorialize". Once, compaining of the excessive length of some words he asked why "zate" hadn't been pressed into service as a word. So . . . .
"Wow, man, that's really zate!"

 

[BellyTank]

"Your hat is the Bomb".

A few years back, in Denmark, someone published a cartoon of someone whose
hat WAS a bomb.

It caused some trouble in the World.

I remember seeing it and saying just what you said.


B
T

 

[Burnsie]

I've been watching lots of old 30s movies so, I'm really, really trying hard to work those old terms into my daily vocabulary so it would come natural and easy. No room for cool, dude or any other pathetic modern day terms in my mission to develop a colorful and entertaining depression era language. It really is like learning a new language!

I've mentioned it elsewhere some time ago on the FL, but seek out a copy of the "Slanguage Dictionary" - a little paperback book from 1944 that'll set off much head scratching over your daily vocabulary...

 

[skyvue]

I've mentioned it elsewhere some time ago on the FL, but seek out a copy of the "Slanguage Dictionary" - a little paperback book from 1944 that'll set off much head scratching over your daily vocabulary...

Who's the author of that book?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Who's the author of that book?

No author is listed: only the publishing company (Newton, Iowa : L.B. Robison Co.).


You can see its front cover here: http://allnurses.com/nursingbooks/NsgBooks-11619-B001IZ73GK.html


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[Lily Powers]

I'm a fond user of "swell" myself. And "grand." "That's a grand idea!"

Anyway, this thread made me recall a movie I happened upon a couple of years ago. Did anyone ever see a 1999 film called "Man of the Century" (also called "Johnny Twenties")? The NY Times described this movie about a swell-talking, fedora-wearing newspaperman this way: "...snazzy suits to his snappy lingo, Johnny is a walking embodiment of the era when liquor was illegal, swing was being born, and the movies were just learning to talk. There's just one problem -- Johnny is living in New York City in the late 1990s, and he seems to have no idea that he's a man out of his era." Johnny was the embodiment of the "no cool" way of speaking.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Lily, are you married to Jamespowers? Just wonderin'.


Haven't seen this movie yet ... will check to see if bits of it are on YouTube. Thanks!

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[Tomasso]

Lily, are you married to Jamespowers? Just wonderin'.

That would be like yikes......... with a capital Y.



I keed, I keed............

 

[Marc Chevalier]

We'll see if she fesses up ... or not. lol



(I keed)

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[Quigley Brown]

I say neat-o a lot. I don't use cuss words.

 

[Lily Powers]

We'll see if she fesses up ... or not. lol



(I keed)

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While "Mrs. JamesPowers" has a certain ring to it, no, I'm not married. But I did grow up in the Bay Area.