Apologies if there is already a topic buried deep somewhere... Just thinking of a bit of fun!
So I was reflecting on words that we used to hear as kids but very rarely or never hear now. The sort of words that your grandparents or parents used to use!
I'll start off with "Scallywag"
Which was a word to describe a mischievously naughty kid, like in; "you scallywag!" often used by my grandmother when we were being cheeky!
Katy xx
I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, Katy, but I'll say:
Payphone
Kim :)
(heard in the morning) Go outside and play! Dinner'll be ready at 6, don't be late!!
lunch pail (I never got that.. I had a Hogan's Heroes lunch box)
If you do that again young lady/man i spank your ass :angel:
Haa yes remember that one!
How about "Scamp" as in "you little scamp!"
Katy xx
Where's the beef?
copacetic
Hows it going? Its copacetic.
the stint was short-lived. Just like the previous post..but how about..
Gnarly!
Funny I had never heard that one until I hit the ski slopes...
"wireless" (radio)
The "cra-a-a-ack!" of a sonic boom, courtesy of a USAF B-58.
dial-up
Please and Thank you
>:-)
Central Committee (was on TV news almost every day).
"Pudding" (instead of dessert or sweet)
casette tape
8-track tape
None of your beeswax!
Quote from: rachel89 on July 22, 2015, 07:32:41 AM
casette tape
You don't go to too many punk shows, do you?
Milkman
gorbachev
monkey business
Color TV
Jive turkey
Far out
Groovy
Boogie
Dig it
The fuzz (as in cops)
Keen
Nifty
Neato
Book (as in go quickly)
Moolah
Pad (as in house, not maxi)
Scarf (as in eat)
The fuzz
Ten-four
Threads (as in clothes)
Split (as in leave)
Grody (as in to the max)
Foxy
Bogart (as in joint)
Tubular
Cadillac car
Leaded premium
What do you mean; I thought jive turkey was still pretty common. I guess I'm out of the loop.
pinafore (as in apron)
kodak film
Thou and thee
record player
Hi-fi
Transistor radio
Also remember my Grandmother calling vinyl disks "gramophone records" (along the same vein)
Haa nice Jill, forgot about "Transistor radio"
Also Bin's (instead of Spectacles or glasses)
Banana seat
Sissy bar
VCR
Walkman
also, TWA
dustman (english for garbage man)
New Coke
???
pepsi clear
daddy-o
Quote from: Beth Andrea on July 23, 2015, 11:39:57 PM
Gag me with a spoon!
Totally! Fer shure!
Yes, the valley girl plague even got as far south as orange county. :P
steamer (as in old steam driven ocean liner)
"You've got mail!" <--yelled to someone as they walked in with AN ACTUAL LETTER
Yellowpages (the business section of the "Phonebook")
Floppy disk
Walkman
B&W/Color TV
monochrome monitor
Bonnie baby
Fotomat
Women's lib
Apollo Space Program
"new ice age coming" (yes I heard that a lot)
Quote from: Marlee on July 25, 2015, 06:42:06 PM
"new ice age coming" (yes I heard that a lot)
What is old is new again!
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"Everything's Sir Garnet."
I ran with an old crowd...
Color TV -- I just recently thought of this as an okay name for a band. Not great, attention-grabbing, but okay.
Jive turkey -- Some friends of mine in a band were joking about calling their next album Jive Turkey.
Groovy -- I used to say this ironically in the late nineties.
Boogie -- I think I still say this one ironically on occasion, as in, "Let's roll."
The fuzz (as in cops) -- Sometimes.
Neato -- Also ironically in the nineties.
Book (as in go quickly) -- Skaters use this one all the time. "To ollie that gap, you just have to book!
Split (as in leave) -- Why don't you make like a banana and get lost?
Grody (as in to the max) -- Oh! My mom uses this one! I like it.
Bogart (as in joint) -- As a kid, I picked this one up from Beavis & Butt-Head
Tubular -- I love this word! And I wish it was used more.
Quote from: Marlee on July 23, 2015, 08:47:00 PM
also, TWA
Guy gets on an airplane. Stewardess asks, "Would you like some of our TWA coffee?"
He says, "No, but I'll have your TWA Tea."
"Coffee, Tea or Me" About airline stewardesses turned into a phrase.
gay, as in happiness.
far-out
"Condenser" became capacitor in electronics when I joined the Navy.
"Lassie" as in Collie dog.
Joelene
DYYYY--NOOOOO---MITE!
Sam Goody.
Victrola
Talkies
"Tape recorder"
speakeasy
fin
sawbuck
Mind your own beeswax!
Weezy (as in George and Weezy)
FM converter.
Didya know there's a wire inside the cable box that can be bent so it doesn't touch the dial, and you can get HBO for FREE!?
No, they can't trace it...
Speaking of bending a wire...
Does anyone remember what the points gap was on your "regular gas only" car? Burping the engine to just the right spot, loosening a screw, gapping the contact, annnnd...damn! The screw fell out! At least it didn't go down the distributor (this time)....
I remember when I used to have to crank start my Model T back in the day.
Are TV dinners still a thing?
Hi Me, also known as a Well I - A rather insecure and conceited person who constantly brags about themselves and how much better they are than everyone else
Bosoms (grandmother speak for boobs, breast... ;D)
Dial up Internet?
I might be too young for this. Lol.
Quote from: V M on July 31, 2015, 09:26:24 PM
Hi Me, also known as a Well I - A rather insecure and conceited person who constantly brags about themselves and how much better they are than everyone else
Guilty in my younger days...but not anymore! Well, I do remember there was one time that I...*slap*
If it wasn't for the "Hi Me" or "Well I" folks, we wouldn't have any reality show contestants.
Not really "a word", but how about TV theme songs...? Do TV shows still attract sing-alongs?
QuoteGreen Acres is the place to be.
Farm livin' is the life for me.
Land spreadin' out so far and wide
Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside.
New York is where I'd rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
...The chores.
...The stores.
...Fresh air.
...Times Square
You are my wife.
Good bye, city life.
Green Acres we are there.
source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/greenacreslyrics.html
Everyone in my grade school peer group could sing this, all it took was for someone to start out with, "Greeeeenacres is the place to be..."
And many others, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbPAt1_vc4
Love it Beth :D
Fizzy drinks or pop 's
Of course now they are just "soft drinks" unless they are alcopops
Katy
"It's cold as a witch's t-- out here" >:-)
"Let's hitch up the horses and get to the store" (meaning, get in the car...but when said by someone who was 60+, we knew he'd learned that phrase in the days when they had to literally "hitch up the horses")
Penny candy
candy cigarettes, and bubble gum cigars
Brought to you by Philip Morris >:-)
The "N" word
:(
Cat's Meow! And "I'll drop you like a bad habit". My dad always said that. -sneaks back into his box where he has been for like 2 years-
"Don't take any wooden nickels." WTF is that supposed to mean anyway?
"you're the cat's pajamas"
-Barney Fife
Quote from: Jill F on August 03, 2015, 04:02:00 PM
"Don't take any wooden nickels." WTF is that supposed to mean anyway?
Aaah! I say this one all the time! It means don't accept any fakes. Don't let anyone fool you. I got stoked on in from George Carlin, with his bit about, "Toodleoo, go with God, and don't take any wooden nickels."
While in the feline world... ;D
"Who's she? the cats mother"
when the name eludes you and you just say she! ouch how that cut you back! and usually came with a
"clip around the ear"
ahhh another old nicety! not...
Blockbuster
bitchen!
"Gnarly waves bra!!! That was radical dude!!! That riff was just killer!!! Wanna go suck down some brewskis?"
Film at 11
Scram! (run away)
"This is a test. For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test."
<Very Annoying Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep>
"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area."
lackadaisical
Quote from: KimSails on August 12, 2015, 12:07:11 PM
"This is a test. For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test."
<Very Annoying Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep>
"This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters of your area in voluntary cooperation with the FCC and other authorities have developed this system to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed to tune to one of the broadcast stations in your area."
One evening I binged watched a lot of the different EBS tests/alerts/fake scenarios on Youtube. I thought I was weird, but then I realized there was no way I could watch them all.
Quote from: Sigyn on August 14, 2015, 05:24:30 AM
One evening I binged watched a lot of the different EBS tests/alerts/fake scenarios on Youtube. I thought I was weird, but then I realized there was no way I could watch them all.
The old "Duck and Cover" films are tragically hilarious now.
Fill it up with (Earth killing) Ethyl (said to the attendant at the full service gas station)
Full service gas station
Quote from: Colleen M on August 14, 2015, 04:35:31 PM
The old "Duck and Cover" films are tragically hilarious now.
Protect and Survive, which was a UK film in the 1970's, is such a blast (tee hee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6U9T3R3EQg
"principal's office" (said in an angry tone)
cowabunga
Redcoat
candy cigarettes
Smoking or non smoking? I'd rather fight than switch...
http://youtu.be/RB6C3o_-RdE
new coke ... coke classic... now its coke again
"Groovy, man!" "Far out!" ;D
Who's the dish?
Maybe I watch too many movies on TCM, but I love classic noir films. :)