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#76
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Eighty-six. Popsicle stand.
"Let's eighty-six this popsicle stand." |
#77
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You're the Ginchiest, which means telling somebody you admire their appearance or personality
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#78
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"The bomb"...us 90s kids still use that from time to time...
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#79
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Kit and Caboodle, as in "The whole kit and caboodle"
Also, "You got it Pontiac" ...I think this was from the car ads, if I remember correctly. |
#80
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The whole nine yards, which incidentally, came from air force men in WWII--the belt that fed the 20mm cannons on planes was nine yards long, so when they would fire all the rounds into a plane, they would call it giving them the whole nine yards.
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#81
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Cheaters - referring to eye glasses (and sometimes for those hiding behind sunglasses).
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#82
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I've also known these electric outlet adapters to be called "cheaters." It was thought to be a fire hazard, because then you'd have too many things plugged in to one outlet, but I was in high school at the time. Technology might have changed since then.
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#83
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I think that the onset of building codes, marked the beginning of the end for homes that only had a couple of electrical sockets, the wiring behind which really wasn't designed to handle the current of much more than a single small device. I can actually remember those adapters that you'd plug into a light fitting before the bulb, to run an extension off...
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#84
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Take a powder. Probably hasn't been uttered aloud since 1932. lol
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#85
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lickety-split
she was on him like white on rice I'll be there in two shakes of a lambs tail okedoke artichoke how now brown cow get down the wind's getting up it's a fer piece ahead I live in the south. I still talk like this when Im kidding around. I've got a zillion others that I can't think of right now |
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#86
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...knee-high to a grasshopper?
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#87
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"Tough titty" My mother used to say this in response to anyone claiming an injustice.
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#88
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Hoity-toity, happy-go-lucky, cursed a blue streak, consarnit, come hither, defenestration, deep-sixed (as in, my car wouldn't start, so I deep-sixed it for the insurance money--lol), zounds (which actually means, Christ's Wounds), quoth-ing anything, hotter than blue blazes, fit to be tied, scram, metrosexual (okay, that one's still used, but really shouldn't be, so please, for the sake of the English language, just stop--lol), and last but not least...
One of these days--one of these days! *shakes fist* Bang! Zoom! Right to the moon, Alice! ![]() |
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#89
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Go jump in a lake. Take a hike. Put a sock in it. A few that came to mind right away.
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#90
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My friend says "Good grief". We're in our early 20's
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“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” -St. Francis of Assisi Diagnosis: Schizoaffective disorder Bipolar type PTSD Social Anxiety Disorder Anorexia Binge/Purge type |
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#91
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Be home before the street lights go on.
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#92
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The Three Stooges started a catch phrase, "Why, I oughta....."
Say it nowadays, and watch people look at you like you're from outer space. |
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#93
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Going steady. Knucklehead. Knuckle sandwich. Going Dutch. Cool cat. Daddy-o. Shotgun wedding. Two shakes of a lambs tail. Sugar-britches. Outta sight. Keen. That's swell.
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#94
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The word "applesauce" to mean nonsense, garbage, or BS.
Something good is "the bee's knees" or "the cat's pajamas." |
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#95
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Some good ones there. I've never heard quoth. And I didn't know that about zounds. Interesting.
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#96
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Riffraff, rapscallion, rabblerouser, Polly-Anna, ship shape, necking, hunky-dorey and soused.
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#97
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The word "tough" to mean "good." I used to hear it a lot in the mid-1970's. "I like your shoes, man! They're tough!"
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#98
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See ya later alligator, Take awhile crocodile, See Ya, Only you can prevent forest fires, ,Nan nu nan nu, Ayyyyyyyy, Knarley, Bub, Aw shucks, Kids are to be seen and not heard, He's got rocks in his head, Don't take any wooden nickels, A penny for your thoughts, Peace man, Oky doky, rolly polly, He is as dumb as a box of rocks, nine, Pop, Soda pop, All righty then, Go get me a switch, K, Bombed, Toasted, Gosh, ther'n , bunches, n, so forth.....
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#99
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That a teenage girl or unmarried woman is "in trouble." Since there's no shame in it anymore, people just say "pregnant."
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#100
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Also these ones, Britches, Won't touch that with a 10 ft pole, Take it with a grain of salt, Oh my stars, Step on a crack you'll break your momma's back, Youn un's, Flipping a bird
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