Terms Which Have Disappeared

[LizzieMaine]

We have Mexican Coke here, even though our Mexican population is negligible. It *does* taste better.

 

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Is it true that Moxie is only sold in New England?

I can't seem to find in anywhere else.

 

[LizzieMaine]

It's our official state beverage, so it's in every grocery store, gas station, and country store here, and it's also popular in New Hampshire -- where it's now manufactured -- and Massachusetts. I don't think you can get it in Connecticut, though, so I think that's as far as it goes short of a few "speciality" retailers here and there.

The brand is owned by Coca-Cola Bottling of New England, which manufactures it thru a subsidiary company, and handles distribution thruout the region. Connecticut is Coca-Cola of New York territory, so I suspect that CCNE is only allowed to distribute it within their specific territory.

 

[tonyb]

Was anyone ever told to make sure that they wore clean underwear, in case they were ever involved in an accident? Or was that advice unique to my mother?

It was a running joke among my people, the clear implication being that the grownups were more concerned about what people might think of their parenting ("who could ever send a child out in dirty underwear?") than whatever injuries the kids might suffer. It was another way of saying "I won't always be here, so you'd best learn how to watch after yourself."

 

[LizzieMaine]

Imagine my surprise to learn that they just cut your clothes off in an accident and never look at them at all. What a waste was all that time I spent doing washing.

 

[tonyb]

As best I can tell, no one has yet mentioned "in his cups."

I recall hearing the phrase as a youngster, and ascertaining its meaning from context.

My people didn't use the phrase, though. The equivalent in our circles was "he's feeling no pain."

Many and varied are the euphemisms for alcoholic inebriation. Snockered. Wooflesnated. Plastered. Zonked. On his lips. Bombed.

Surely there are hundreds more.

 

[tonyb]

Blotto.

 

[LizzieMaine]

S**t-faced. Blind staggering drunk. Got the DT's.

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^
Those terms have not quite disappeared from
"my neck of the woods" .

 

[tonyb]

Pickled.

 

[2jakes]

Higher than a kite.

 

[kaiser]

Two sheets to the wind.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Lit. Lit like a Christmas tree.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Two sheets to the wind.

I was always told that it was three sheets to the wind as a sheet in this case is a rope that holds a sail to the mast.

Also, Today I had to make a trip to the county seat.

 

[2jakes]

Plastered!

This came from a man that was a master wall repairer, he was considered the best
in the world at his peak, he developed what we now know as plaster,
he had one falling which he drank...heavily, and often fell from his ladder.

One frightful day, while working alone he took a tumble from over twenty feet
and landed in a liquid-solidified plaster compound and was unable to pull himself out.

When discovered face-down and stuck.
He had in his final attempt to clear himself
reached for his bottle of spirits which was clutched in his hand.

The folks were sad and amazed. They said in his honor he was “Plastered”, thus
the name took hold and now every time it is used to describe a drunken person
(usually male) as an homage to him.

It’s true because wikepedia said so.

 

[BobHufford]

 

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Thinking of breakfast foods for some reason.

Butter and egg man

Milquetoast

 

[LizzieMaine]

Caspar Milquetoast, "The Timid Soul", in action, by H. T. Webster.

 

[Stearmen]

Pretty please, with a cherry on top!

 

[Fading Fast]

"wazoo" as in "up the wazoo" or up the hind quarters - don't hear that one much anymore.