[Closed] A good fun read, how many of these sayings do you remember ?

A good fun read, how many of these sayings do you remember ?

Do you recognize the word Murgatroyd? - Heavens to Murgatroyd! Lost words and phrases from our childhood:

The other day, a not so elderly (65) lady said something to her grandson about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said what the heck is a Jalopy? He had never heard of the word Jalopy! She knew she was old, but not that old.

Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.

About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of time. These phrases included "Don't touch that dial", "Carbon copy", "You sound like a broken record", and "Hung out to dry".

Back in the day, we had a lot of moxie. We'd straighten up and fly right - Heavens to Betsy! Gee Whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy Moley! We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley. Even a regular guy couldn't call us a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China!

Back then, life was swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys, the D.A, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here but he isn't anymore.

We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap and before we can say: Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! or This is a fine kettle of fish!, we discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice.

Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blinked and they were gone. Where have all those phrases gone?

Long gone: The milkman did it. It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Heavens to Murgatroyd!

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has little liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! For a child, each new word is like a shiny toy that has no age. We at the other end of the arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once did not exist, and there were words that once strutted their hour on the stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's a great advantage of aging.

See ya later, alligator!