Terms Which Have Disappeared

[bburtner@moran]

Wind pudding and duck.

 

[tommyK]

Don't hear "skedaddle" much anymore

 

[jamespowers]

I don't even know who he is. [huh]

Cooter Davenport.

 

[Zombie_61]

Cooter Davenport.

Yeeaaahhhh...that doesn't help. lol

 

[Stearmen]

Plumb tuckered out, plumb crazy, half a bubble off plumb.
Plumb means straight upright, as opposed to level, which is straight horizontal. Both plumb and level are as straight as you can get, hence the expression "on the level" or plumb crazy - as crazy as one can be.

Half a bubble off either plumb or level is close to 45°, so that's reeeally off. Not upright or on the level.

Sorry, it's always been a pet peeve of mine when someone would put a level on some thing upright, like a wall, to check how "level" it is. If it were level it would be on the floor. Walls are plumb (or should be, at least).

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When you are dealing with slang terms, they are not always spelled correctly. Plum Crazy, is spelled right in that context, but Marion Webster would not like it. As long as my pictures don't fall of the wall, I could care less about measurements. I never have lived in a Plumb, or Plum house!

 

[dh66]

Just trying to help out. No critique intended. :beer:

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[jamespowers]

Yeeaaahhhh...that doesn't help. lol

Man, you are old.
Does this help?:

 

[A Bomber General]

Outstanding! Learn something new every day. Another term she liked to throw out there was 'three sheets to the wind,' which also has an interesting nautical history.

 

[Zombie_61]

Man, you are old.
Does this help?

Ah, that 'splains it. I've only seen two or three episodes, and the only things I paid attention to were Catherine Bach, the General Lee, and occasionally Denver Pyle, 'cuz the rest of it was pure rubbish.

 

[Stearmen]

I thought of another one I have not heard in decades. I was watching Ask This Old House, they were talking about wheelbarrow and wheelbarrel, The former is the correct pronunciation. Then I remembered, when I was a kid, there were still thousands of people alive that were born in the 19th century, and I new several born as early as the 1870s. A lot of them called it a Wheel-Burro, after the trusty little pack animal. I don't know, but I always liked that name better, kind of fits, your own little pack animal, to haul big loads!

 

[Stearmen]

Just trying to help out. No critique intended. :beer:

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I was just kidding, thats why I put the laughing face at the end. As James will tell you, I don't take much said personally on this sight. Except, when James calls me a Hippie!:cheers1:

 

[jamespowers]

Ah, that 'splains it. I've only seen two or three episodes, and the only things I paid attention to were Catherine Bach, the General Lee, and occasionally Denver Pyle, 'cuz the rest of it was pure rubbish.

Well at least I know you can see then.

 

[jamespowers]

I was just kidding, thats why I put the laughing face at the end. As James will tell you, I don't take much said personally on this sight. Except, when James calls me a Hippie!:cheers1:

You sure you aren't a Hippie? Prove it to me.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Hmm..something does smell like burning leaves.....
Oh wait...the crew is raking up our leaves.
Sorry
HD

 

[jamespowers]

Hmm..something does smell like burning leaves.....
Oh wait...the crew is raking up our leaves.
Sorry
HD

You can burn leaves there?!

 

[Zombie_61]

Here's a term (and a practice) that I wish would disappear: Daylight Saving Time.

 

[GHT]

Journey, have you noticed that in the last decade or so, life experiences, as reported by hacks, are now a journey, or a learning curve, or an uphill climb. Fanciful language, but not, how shall I put it? Up my street.

I too, hate the clocks going back and forth each year.

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

Here's a term (and a practice) that I wish would disappear: Daylight Saving Time.

You could move a little bit east, to Arizona.

 

[Stearmen]

You sure you aren't a Hippie? Prove it to me.

I don't know where you get the idea I could be a Hippie!

 

[cw3pa]

When I was a kid I remember Yancy Derringer (Jock Mahoney) using calaboose for the city jail. Hoosgow is an other word for jail not used much except maybe by Gabby Hayes.