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Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 4:09pm

"Up your alley"

"So's your old man"

"Your mother wears army boots"

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 4:26pm

But the last one was turned into a movie with Barbara Eden.

eta: I suppose "a movie with Barbara Eden" could also be considered an expression of yore.

Updated On: 11/30/05 at 04:26 PM

Now THAT was funny, Cal...whew! Worthy of a "Simpsons" episode...

How about these:

"You can just get glad in the same britches you got mad in"

"Sittin' Jake"

"What's knittin' kittens?"

"I wouldn't vote for him for dogcatcher"

"He ain't got sense to pound sand in a rat's nest"

"I don't know him/her from Adam's off ox"

"More_____than Carter's got pills."

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 5:43pm

I recently referred to something as being "on the level" and two of my friends looked at me as though I were crazy. According to them, that's an antiquated expression. Is this true?

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 5:45pm

Well, how old were they?

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 5:53pm

27ish

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 5:56pm

Perhaps they're just idiots...or poorly educated queens...don't they watch TCM?

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:02pm

Well, one of them is my best friend. He's a queen and doesn't watch TCM, but he's not poorly educated. I was flabbergasted. Granted, he gives me trouble when I overuse the expression "putting the cart before the horse" or when I when I start a thought with "methinks," but I've always used the expression "on the level" and never thought that expression had fallen out of circulation.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:13pm

Besides, it was immortalized in The Simpsons' monorail song:

Grampa: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle: No, good sir, I'm on the level.

#10

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:14pm

So spaketh the oracle that is Calvin.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

#11

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:16pm

Oh, and there is nothing wrong with methinks. More people should say methinks.

#12

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:18pm

Methinks you are correct.

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

#13

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:25pm

It's just the lot of the over-educated...

No one has a clue what a "fluffernutter" is anymore, but that's okay. Only my sister could eat that sickingly sweet stuff...

#14

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:45pm

mmmmm...marshmallow paste...

Now I just can't imagine how that hasn't caught on...

I tend to say mayhaps...

So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space

Updated On: 11/30/05 at 06:45 PM

#15

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 6:48pm

as in may happen...

Did you know the dictionary says it is "mayhap" with no "s" yet synonym for "perhaps" with the "s"?

Now how many others here would find that interesting?

Updated On: 11/30/05 at 06:48 PM

#16

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 7:17pm

I'm just 16 and I know about marshmallow fluff! I used ot love peanut butter and fluff sandwiches. My little cousin, who is about 4/5, likes to eat peanut butter, fluff, and nutella sandwiches, which just sound to me like the most unhealthy and sickeningly sweet things alive...whenever I make them for him I make sure to use whole wheat bread.

"Don't thank your parents, if you were raised in a nurturing environment you wouldnt be in show business"--Conan O'Brien at the 2006 Emmy Awards

#17

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 7:19pm

Sounds really gagsville, i*heart*fame!

For oblique expressions, I like

perchance

#18

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 9:02pm

I say "dagnammit" all the time. I love old man vernacular.

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#19

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 9:06pm

I tend to say

"Gosh darn"
"Gee whiz"
"Indeed" (Not really old, but no one I know really says that word anymore...)

I once said "Jeepers" and everyone looked at me funny...

I get lost, unless, of course, I'm getting found.

#20

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 11/30/05 at 11:55pm

"I once said "Jeepers" and everyone looked at me funny... "

That reminds me of the song:

Jeepers Creepers, where'd ya get those peepers?

If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.

#21

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:00am

"Jeepers" makes me think of Dennis the Menace.

My mother says "Oh, for Gordon's seed" in times of disgust. I have no idea what that means or where it came from, and I've never heard anyone else say it. She probably got it from my grandmother, who had her own language, such as:

Earbobs: Earrings
Pant Suit: Any outfit, male or female
Soda water: A soda
Make dirties: Take a crap

#22

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:44am

I like to say "smackers."

"How do you like THAT 'misanthropic panache,' Mr. Goldstone?" - PalJoey

#23

re: Expressions of Yore

Posted: 12/1/05 at 12:47am

I say 'Jinkies.' I don't know if anyone, besides Velma from Scooby Doo, ever says that.

Who's stoned? I am merely travelling incognito.

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