Terms Which Have Disappeared

[2jakes]

Someone will say something to me, and I'll reply with, "What?" They repeat what they said, and I'll reply with, "You just said that. Do you know you're repeating yourself?" Sometimes that gets them so confused that they forget what they were trying to tell me.

 

[2jakes]

"No. What is on second!"

 

[2jakes]

"Puleeze...not that again!"

 

[skydog757]

Pushing your hand (too far).

Forcing someone's hand.

Riding your luck.

 

[2jakes]

Skinny dipping.

Birthday suit.

Not worth a plugged nickle.

 

[Fading Fast]

Skinny dipping....

Kids have sex in middle school today, so the fission of skinny dipping in high school probably has faded and taken the term with it.

Skinny dipping.

Birthday suit.

Not worth a plugged nickle.

Good ones and, you're right, seem to be fading (fast).

 

[2jakes]

Kids have sex in middle school today, so the fission of skinny dipping in high school probably has faded and taken the term with it.

Good ones and, you're right, seem to be fading (fast).

I usually play tennis at the local high school.
Mostly after school the courts are available & I teach
tennis part-time.
Always amazes me how casual the ladies "dress" to attend school today.

 

[Fading Fast]

I usually play tennis at the local high school.
Mostly after school the courts are available & I teach
tennis part-time.
Always amazes me how casual the ladies "dress" to attend school today.

We are conducting a giant social experiment that I doubt everyone knows we signed up for.

For almost ever and almost everywhere (there are some notable exceptions), casual sex was discouraged especially amongst teenagers with "good" girls taught to "protect" their virginity while "good" boys were taught to respect that. Now we're told gender difference are all socially imposed and lead to sexism at the same time we promoted individual expression, including sexuality, as a freedom to be unburdened.

Hence, we have middle school kids and up loose in the world with none or few of the old guardrails, guidelines, social constraints and moral clarity of the time that used to try to control the sexual activities of the young. Without that, the experiment is on. We'll see what it brings.

 

[p51]

Leaping Lizards!
That's a phrase I've heard on movies and read but nobody I ever heard actually say it (except to be funny). Maybe it's one of those made-up phrases you don't have to worry about offending anyone with?

 

[BobHufford]

Does anyone still refer to a muscle spasm as a "Charley Horse"?

 

[2jakes]

Does anyone still refer to a muscle spasm as a "Charley Horse"?

Yep.
Specially after too much tennis!

 

[Upgrade]

Does anyone still refer to a muscle spasm as a "Charley Horse"?

As long as people still play the Operation board game, there will be a horse for Charley.

 

[skydog757]

Leaping Lizards!
That's a phrase I've heard on movies and read but nobody I ever heard actually say it (except to be funny). Maybe it's one of those made-up phrases you don't have to worry about offending anyone with?

My friends wore out "Zoiks!" and "Jinkies!" from Scooby Doo (in an ironic way, of course) when we were kids. Now I use the "You meddling kids!" with my co-workers.

 

[2jakes]

On military forum:

"I've been an aviation & military buff ever since I was knee high to a ducks ass." (sic)

 

[LizzieMaine]

Leaping Lizards!
That's a phrase I've heard on movies and read but nobody I ever heard actually say it (except to be funny). Maybe it's one of those made-up phrases you don't have to worry about offending anyone with?

Made famous in the comic pages in the mid-twenties by Little Orphan Annie, but it really caught on in the early thirties when it was every other line out of her mouth on the "Little Orphan Annie" radio program.

"Yi!" is another exclamation made popular in that comic strip, as usually spoken by some villianous character just before Punjab sliced his head off with a scimitar.

 

[MisterCairo]

Does anyone still refer to a muscle spasm as a "Charley Horse"?

Yup!

 

[Stearmen]

Sour Puss. Outside of OZ The Great And Powerful, I don't think I have heard it in decades!

 

[BobHufford]

Another favorite is a riff on a Groucho Marx routine in Horse Feathers.

My Grandma used to say "Horse Feathers" (I assume as a stand-in for "Bull S***"). I haven't heard it since.

 

[BlueTrain]

I heard the expression "horse feathers" when I was little, as well as others. The term refers to the "feathers" on the legs of some draft horses but the use of the term probably became popular because there was a Marx Brothers movie by that name. I don't recall hearing anyone use the term "puss" but "sour" showed up in at least one Western Swing song from Bob Wills, something like, "We travel round the country playing by hour, never do look sour."

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Does a well-dressed person still look "snazzy"?