Terms Which Have Disappeared

[HoosierDaddy]

Grocery store

 

[Zombie_61]

Do you go to the grocery store or the supermarket?

Ralph's.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Do you go to the grocery store or the supermarket?

We "trade" at a "grocery store" where we push around a "buggy". We "give money" for them, then "carry" the groceries home in a "sack".

 

[Stearmen]

Do you go to the grocery store or the supermarket?

Even though, the two stores I go to are large chain supermarkets, I still say, "I'm going grocery shopping today!"

 

[Stearmen]

Has any one mentioned hokey?

 

[LizzieMaine]

We wheel our groceries in a carriage, and lug them home in a bag.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Don't ever come to east-german dialect-area. Your brain will shut down.

 

[wgnovak]

I still refer to a quarter or half past the hour or else a quarter to the hour when referring to time. As time goes by I think less and less understand what I’m saying.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I still refer to a quarter or half past the hour or else a quarter to the hour when referring to time. As time goes by I think less and less understand what I’m saying.

Germany is still parted, even on that.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Grocery cart...sack

 

[BobHufford]

Shopping cart ... bag. BTW ... a Wal-Mart bag is a unit of measure around here.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Does anyone still say, "Tell it to the Marines?" I never could figure that one out. What do the Marines have to do with anything? Yet at one time it was a common way to dismiss an unlikely story or excuse.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Interesting!:

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/tell-it-to-the-marines.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_It_to_the_Marines

It's the same, like the german:
"You can tell this to Santa Claus."

 

[LizzieMaine]

"Tell it to Sweeney" is the variation we had. In all senses the idea was that you should go take your ridiculous comments and tell them to someone who'll believe them. The "Marines" version, so I understand, comes from the 19th Century idea that Marines were gullible and not particulary bright -- a notion perpetrated by members of the Navy.

 

[Harp]

Does anyone still say, "Tell it to the Marines?" I never could figure that one out. What do the Marines have to do with anything?

I once accompanied a diplomat for lunch at a US Navy mess in Naples, Italy-three Chief Petty Officers and a hundred enlisted Marines, the diplomat, and me, a teenage US Army sergeant.
Our US Air Force C-130 had to refuel and catch a few colonels enroute to Frankfurt and a fast chow was suggested by the air crew. The Marines acted appropriately but were a curious bunch;
giving the impression that I had entered some holy-of-holies mess hall without permission. I just smiled.

 

[Trenchfriend]

This old term:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browline_glasses

I think, in Germany, no one would know the name of this classic frame.

 

[skydog757]

I heard all of those on Saturday...

How about "knee-walking drunk"?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Or as W. C. Fields would say, "in communion with Bacchus."

 

[Trenchfriend]

How about "knee-walking drunk"?

Marksmen's festival.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Outdying term, here.

"Puderquaste" ("powder puff"). As cussword for addicted cosmetic-girls, too.