white gas
Its not defunct here. I bought a can this fall from the amish. They buy it by the barrel. I take my can to them and they fill it. The drum they pump it out of says "Naphtha-White gas-lantern fuel"
I saw the reference to Naptha and associated it with coleman lanterns and stoves. We used to call that Coleman fuel, for no better term.
White gas to me was Amoco White. It was the pre-unleaded era's, unleaded gasoline. It was used in autos that required high octane and was sold as a fuel that would extend tune-ups and engine life. It was unleaded gasoline. Pure, a Standard company, also sold a white gasoline in some of their stores, but it wasn't presented to the public as an available fuel. You would find the Pure white in a pump on the side of a station much the same as you do Kerosene #1 diesel now. :)
Speaking of which, "coal oil" , which is what we treated cuts, mouth sores, etc. with. And, burned in our lamps. ;D
Hmmmm...what was that special shaped little glass vessel filled with to wash out eyes?
"check your oil?"
"Dull as a froe". Not too many people my age would understand that one.
unfortunatly,,please, thank you, sir, maam
I've never liked this one and can't wait for it to go away. :D
"With that said."
I am sure some will remember the RED gas , that was for high performance .
tcsmpsi, also carbon oil. And the gadget was an eye cup.
I thought ethel was the high test gas? Or was that just a company that used that name?
Crown Silver and Crown Gold. Gold was "white" gas, but not advertised as such.
That's spelled Ethyl or High test. Other was Regular. Outboard gas was sold pre-mixed at Marinas.
I have one of those too, Mooseherder. It's the interjection of the word,
"Again".
I think I really meant "that being said". :D
I think Ethyl came from tetraethyl lead.
There is a sign on the old post office/store here that advertises "White Flash" gas.
As I said before the north georgia hill country is 50 years behind the rest of the country, JUST THE WAY I LIKE IT, so here we go:
coal oil
"that aint worth a fiddlers *DanG"(my grandmother who never cusses uses this one )
eave troughs (gutters)
tirpin (turtle)
hickory switch
"goofy as a run over dog"
"I'll whip you like a rented mule"(with the hickory switch)
Frigidair (brand name used as generic term for refrigerator)
toe sack
poke (either the plant which can be eaten or a small sack)
roasneer (appalaichian slang for roasting ear which is a big ear of corn)
"finer than frog hair split four ways"
"harder to find than hens teeth"
"natural as a tick on a dog"
"more ____ than a coon dog got fleas"
chimbly (chimney)
"Black as a coal miners butt"
"Easy as Sunday morning"
drinkin water (drinkable water)
"He's about as sharp as a ball peen hammer"
Well thats about enough for now when I think of some more I'll post them.
The only one I can add is what my family called the kitchen sink. It has been called a zinc or zink, and still is by my Mom. I suspect that came from them being made from that material in the country house.
Screams in the service station, by who pumped ethal. Could not resist.
Colder than a well diggers......
Colder than a brass monkey's......
Worthless as 38d's on a nun.
Worthless as t.....s on a tomcat.
As confused as a kid on mothers day....in utah.
Don't take any wooden nickels.
Ever see an eggplant??????
Ever smell moth......s....???
Droppin like ....... on prom night.
Banure for manure.
And from the old show, Leave it to Beaver. "Gee Wally, you sure were hard on the ........... last night".
I had better stop before I get in too much trouble.
"Can't have your cake and eat it too."
Why not? What good is having a cake if you can't eat it? >:(
A nickel cup of coffee
A penny post card
Quote from: Beweller on April 25, 2008, 09:00:02 PM
tcsmpsi, also carbon oil. And the gadget was an eye cup.
Do you remember what we put in that eye cup? ;)
"General Delivery" (postal address)
my favorite: "Et up with the dumb ... (butt)."
Dime Store
Its like this, you turn it over and its like that. ::) ::)
Hot water heater. You heat already hot water??????? :) :)
You will find it the last place you look for it. Duh! :o :o
You lost it, "where did you see it last"? Another big Duh!!!!
The saying "colder than the balls on a brass monkey" does not refer to what you might think. A brass monkey is what the cannon balls were stacked on on civil war era battle ships. I started to add that one to my first post but didn't know if it would be frowned upon
Also: "colder than a witches t.t
Do they give green stamps with that white gas ?
Fill'er up?
Ah yes, Green Stamps. I wonder if trading stamps are still being used?
A couple I remember from my mother:
He would cut off his nose to spite his face.
Beggars can't be chosers.
Running around like a chicken with it's head cut off.
Heres some more:
"Tighter than Dick's hat band"
"tired as a one armed paper hanger"
"You've got more problems than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest"
gulf (cove, holler or similar geographic feature)
whoppin wrench (hammer)
"tall as a 10 foot wooden indian"
gum boats (big feet)
"job of work"
"borry the loan"
Check yer tires?
Baud
Save P and Go
Packed everything but kitchen sink.
He's about half bubble off plum.
That's all I can think of right now.
QuoteThat's all I can think of right now
Jon, that saying is not defunct, I use it all the time. :D :D :D
Forgetfull Bob
Excamples of old sayings from my area, translated from swedish.
Long as the poor year(1867)
In the great barn. It means outside in open air
"You better mind your P's and Q's" is one I never understood other then I knew it meant you better watch your step.
Remember when flipflops were called thongs and thongs were something you wore on your feet on the beach, not up your keester and crocs were something that ate people from down under? I never thought about that until one day I was getting things around to go up to the cabin and I mentioned to Tammy I needed a pair of thongs to wear to the shower and just around the inside of the cabin. My daughter became horrified and disgusted, not knowing the "obsolete" meaning of thongs and thinking I was going up North so I could wear them around the cabin. :D
I could reread that post a couple of times a day and lose a lot of weight. Thanks for the mental image. yikes_smiley yikes_smiley
Quote from: limbrat on April 27, 2008, 10:35:06 AM
Thanks for the mental image. yikes_smiley yikes_smiley
Thats what she said. :D
"Mr." and "Mrs."
Maybe its just that I live further north than when I grew up. But adults around here resist being called "Mr." and "Mrs."
Some defunct titles from the UK
"Shankses pony" - travelling by foot.
"Corporation beer" - water.
"Adams ale" - water again.
"16 bow and arrow" - refering to whichever century.
Jeff, 'mind your P's and Q's' originated in ye olde England. When brawls broke out in the public houses, people were asked to mind their pints and quarts. And I'm not delving into the thong conversation!! :D :-X
Quote from: timberfaller390 on April 26, 2008, 05:38:18 PM
The saying "colder than the balls on a brass monkey" does not refer to what you might think. A brass monkey is what the cannon balls were stacked on on civil war era battle ships. I started to add that one to my first post but didn't know if it would be frowned upon
Also: "colder than a witches t.t
"Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey." refers to the same thing. The brass monkey or rack for the cannon balls would shrink in the cold letting the balls fall off and roll around the ships deck. Hazardous to a sailor's health. :D
Defunct - heard by my Gramma (departed 1984):
Haints.
Watch your ways son. As a twig is bent, so will the tree grow.
I'll say . . .
You don't say . . .
My precious Lord, do forgive us.
Wonder of wonders.
Waste not, want not.
Don't forget your water! You could not leave Gramma's house without her giving you a mason jar of water wrapped in newspaper. Not a defunct phrase but that survivalist mindset is pretty much gone from our go-down-to-the-grocery-store-ad-get-it generation.
Defunct Uncle Ozzie (departed 1975) stuff, who raised my mom (typed in his h-e-a-v-y, s-l-o-w, T-e-x-a-n . . d-r-a-w-l for full effect):
Goddago tawk to-uh manabowdda harse.
Hitchyer harses kidz - we goin tuh tay-own.
Leevit layyyy, bowa. Awl hafta pull a twig.
Mind yer maw youngun. Awl hafta pulla twig.
Eeeet-dem greeenz bow-eee, awl hafta pulla twig.
He never even raised his hand to me once. Or my mom, when he was raisin her (sorry Tom).
Not defunct yet, still in use by my very much alert Aunt Lilly, born on Christmas Eve 1906. You do the math ;) :
"Lawwwww!" Which I assume has been shortened over many years from "Lawwwwwd" which I assume was shortened form "Lawd-uh-Muh-cee!" which does still find it's way into the conversation when an extreme expletive is called for.
A few that bug me if iover-used.
At any rate . . one local guy in particular says it every 4th or 5th thought, but he doesn't bother with all the words, it just comes out at Mach 9 as "...dinna-rate..."
Words that have been kidnapped that once were kosher:
I feel so gay!
Whang. My kids have assured me not to use this in public any more. i found out when i ate something a couple years ago and said "I don't really like it, it's got a whang to it." they about split their sides laughing. i didn't know that word had been hijacked. I am behind the times. Slower than molasses you might say.
Y'all come backun seeus.
One i probably understand and yet wonder where in the world it came from....."well i'll swanney".
"Slower than molasses" is one my grandmother used, except she would say "slower than molasses in January".
I don't suppose the time of year has as much significance in Texas as it does in Wisconsin. :)
Hi guys,
I was always told the saying "mind your p's and q's" came from the days of hand-set type presses... where all the individual letters were embossed on little pieces of metal that you had to "hand set" to form lines of text. Once you had set your text and printed what you wanted, the shop normally had a kid who would disassemble the plates and put the letters back in their respective font boxes. To print right-reading onto the paper, all the letters are of course backwards, so it's easy to confuse lowercase p's and q's... hence the warning to mind them...
Handset presses are also where the term "leading" comes from... if you ever noticed it in your computer word processor... on a hand-set press, they would set thin pieces of lead between the lines of type to keep them separated a certain distance when they were clamped down. Thicker pieces of lead gave you thicker spaces between your lines of text...
-Norm.
E, E, control, Bell
That used to be the combination of characters used on the NCR Century 100's and 200's as a transmit button or Enter button.
I worked on a 'Hot Type' newspaper and was always impressed by the typesetters. The Type setting machine, we had two,usually run by women were big iron machines that melted lead and provided the characters as the women would type out the stories on a monstrosity keyboard that took effort to operate. Then the racks of lines of print were sent to the typesetters where they stacked them in columns and added spacings where necessary. They also did proof reading. I found out later that they could read backwards as good as forwards and had a grand knowledge of English language basices, spelling and punctuation. Proofs of these pages were sent to real proof readers, but it's amazing what the typesetters had already fixed. Typesetters seldom had a high-school education. They were self-taught or apprenticed at the paper.
Tom,
Yeah, the hot type or Linotype machines were the next generation, weren't they? I've never seen a hot type machine, but I've heard about them. No need to "mind your p's and q's" there, because they were not individual letters, so they would melt the entire line of type for re-cast into new lines, right?
-N.
StorminN, it seems you were closer to the mark than me!!
Mind your Ps and Qs (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/248000.html)
I brought up mind your Ps and Qs because of an incident I still remember quite well. A time I was sent to the principals office.
We had a lady Principal named Mrs. Owens. I don't remember why I was sent to the office now, but I had sat there in her office for a couple hours when Mrs. Owens finally said, "Mr. Brokaw, you can return to class now, but you better mind your Ps and Qs" I turned and asked her, just wht were Ps and Qs. She said, "You just never mind". I retorted "I bet you don't even know" Oops. Mistake number two that day. I sat there the rest of the afternoon and my mom had to come pick me up from school as Mrs. Owens made sure I missed the bus. :)
My mother used to tell me to "mind my P's and Q's. I never knew exactly what P's and Q's were and I don't think my mother did either. Now I know. Thank you Timburr.
Far out man. :D :D
I guess I'll swanney was just slang for I'll swear from a time when swearing of any kind was generally frowned upon unless you really needed to. My favorite " that ain't worth a fiddler's *DanG" comes from most musicans swearing so often that the words kind of lost thier flare.
Thanks texastimber for reminding me of haints.
"day lawww"
"keep yer nose clean"
"keep yer powder dry"
"dry as a powder keg"
"rich as ten foot up a mule's butt"
"that stuff'll grow pink whiskers on a horse mule" (usally refering to strong drink)
"that'll curl your toes" (strong drink again)
Corn shuckins are mostly a thing of the past but we still host one every year on the farm. I play the fiddle and all the boy's I pick with show up to provide the entertainment. Traditionaly a gallon of moonshine was put at the bottom of the pile of corn to be shucked for insentive to get to the bottom fast. The alternate to this is to have a jug of shine and when somebody shucks a red ear they get a pull off the jug. We usally keep a couple of quarts of my grandpaw's finest for just such an event. It's really a great fun gathering for all the family and friends.
Quote from: Tom on April 26, 2008, 07:54:40 PM
Save P and Go
Same as Store P and Branch. Bet Tom thought nobody would have a clue ;D
:D :D
Aren't you glad to be able to look back on that instead of going to work tomorrow to do it. :D :D
Quote from: Tom on April 27, 2008, 08:03:58 PM
:D :D
Aren't you glad to be able to look back on that instead of going to work tomorrow to do it. :D :D
Yeah, but going to work to do that wasn't quite as rough as trying to figure out what some @#$%$#@ programmer was thinking when they did it ::)
Since we're on unusual expressions, I'd like to know if any members have ever heard of the expression "chawed". (Kinda like a Southern rural past-tense of chew). It may well be localized to the Southeast Alabama area where I grew up but if it has migrated anywhere else I would like to know.
My best "interpretation" of the word is "humiliated" or something like "put out".
Any responses would be appreciated.
this actually took a path I hadn't intended. Defunct means "not used anymore". I was trying to get identified stuff that, either didn't exist anymore, or, we don't say anymore, not just unusual expressions.
I've heard Chawed a lot. It seems to be a term used through the middle of the country more than the very south. I've heard it as "chewed out", fussed at, reprimanded as well as a past perfect tense of chew.
It is also used as a reference to chewing tobacco where a chew is a "chaw".
I've heard it most in North Georgia, N.C., Tenn. and North alabama. \
It's only been in my later years that I have widened my horizons to include Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana and Missouri. Those were far-off, foreign soils until my retirement, and I don't know much about their speech. Accept that I have trouble understanding it a lot of the time. :P :D
Quote from: Tom on April 27, 2008, 09:02:12 PM
this actually took a path I hadn't intended.
Did that surprise you? :)
Dave
We still use it to describe a "chaw of tobacco" and in the phrase "chaw it over" like "we'll chaw it over and see what we can come up with"
A windjammer could sail "by and large"
Remember the old lead pipes and plumbers "wiping" the joints. Or even the term plumber, one who works with plumbum (lead, Pb)
A tinker doing a repair on a pot would contain the solder within, a clay dam, which once the repair was complete probably wasn't worth a tinker's dam.
"Short were his shrift in that debate. If Lorn encounter'd Bruce!"
A shrift was a pennance given during confessional. Between conviction and the gallows a man often got a short shrift. v. shive
Fits like a saddle on a sow.
Chewin the fat (talking to someone)
chewin the rag (same as above)
peddle pushers (capri pants)
My Grandmother's favorite expressions were
"Oh Rubbish!" or "My Land!" the closest she ever came to cussin'
Half past 3.
My Father would always say that,meaning it's 3:30.My Aunt says it too.It's good to hear her say it.
Half Past and sayings like clock-wise, are going away with the use of digital clocks.
I was standing in the hall of a local college and a 18 yr old fellow came up to me and asked: What time is it in digital? We were standing in front of an analogue clock!
Suns over the yardarm. close enough time for most things.
sawdust
LYric 2-3689
Going back a bit further....
63R7 (Sixty-three ring 7)
Our phone number in the forties, and early fifties.
Mine was 403
My cousins were at 567R. (party line)
Number please smiley_singsongnote01
Ok I'm going to show my age here what is a party line?
There was a day when it was difficult to get a private/single line from your house to its own connection at the switchboard. (a wo- manned device with connecting wires that were manually installed in jacks that went to the callee's house.)
The sharing of the lines was common to allow for everyone having a phone. Each phone on that line carried a partyline designation and a certain number of rings so that you could tell that it was your phone being rung. Having a "private" number was a status thing and cost a bit more too. It meant that you were the only person on that line.
You could hear other conversations if you picked up a party line, the same as you would if you picked up an extension in your house. All Party lines seemed to have a snooper who gossiped about every body else's business. :D
On the newer party lines only your ring was heard on the line, but on the older 8 party lines, yes I said 8, the rings could be heard by all on the line and it was a real party when someone everyone was on the line. ::)
Quote from: Tom on April 25, 2008, 04:35:53 PM
I saw the reference to Naptha and associated it with coleman lanterns and stoves. We used to call that Coleman fuel, for no better term.
White gas to me was Amoco White. It was the pre-unleaded era's, unleaded gasoline. It was used in autos that required high octane and was sold as a fuel that would extend tune-ups and engine life. It was unleaded gasoline. Pure, a Standard company, also sold a white gasoline in some of their stores, but it wasn't presented to the public as an available fuel. You would find the Pure white in a pump on the side of a station much the same as you do Kerosene #1 diesel now. :)
Thats what ZI thought you meant - Amoco white gas. Good stuff.
We are showing our age to remember that!
"Operator" - try getting a live person on the phone..
Another oldie is cattycorner - as in the drugstore is cattycorner to the barbershop.
And then there's that old southern standby - "down yonder"
Like pulling hen's teeth.
Scarcer than a two dollar bill
"out of kilter"
"Under the hill ".
Turtle on a car.
So mad, I could spit.
Shoot faar.
Quote from: Fla._Deadheader on April 29, 2008, 02:00:45 PM
So mad, I could spit.
Shoot faar.
Both of those are still fairly common in these parts. But the turtle one reminded me of one you don't hear often anymore. What did your grands call the trunk on a car? 80% of the FF population knows this one. :D
I've heared the spare tire carrier on the fender called a turtle
One i heard from an uncle when I was a grade schooler. Don't think I've heard it since.
A has-been who never was.
Grampa always said, "Better get down off a yer high horse afore he trips over yer bottom lip."
And when he wanted you to hurry up, it sounded like he would say, "Make ace" when in reality he was saying "Make haste" :)
Quote from: TexasTimbers on April 29, 2008, 02:05:46 PM
Quote from: Fla._Deadheader on April 29, 2008, 02:00:45 PM
So mad, I could spit.
Shoot faar.
Both of those are still fairly common in these parts. But the turtle one reminded me of one you don't hear often anymore. What did your grands call the trunk on a car? 80% of the FF population knows this one. :D
It was always common knowledge and prompt, meticulous action to have the turtle hull ready to get you
deer stuff into in a reall hurry in case there might be some kind of emergency. Or something.
two bits
four bits
six bits
a dollar
How old do you have to be to know what the knock pattern for "shave and a haircut two bits"
sawdust
"Smells like apperpuckum" (smells bad)
Wasn't Sunoco once (pre-WWII) a white gas?
I remember my last cup of 5 cent coffee. At the lunch counter in Niesner's 5 and 10--late winter, '50-'51.
"Cool as the ice on an icy pool
Cool as the end of an Eskimo's ***
Cool as the frost on a frosty glass
Cool as the ring around a polar bear's***"
That finest unit of measure, the "RCH"
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do!"
Reminds me of a homeowner that said "I don't think your helper can read a tape, I just heard him call out 36 and a red one" :-X :D
A few I thought of;
Balling the jack, ol dobbin, muleskinners, wagonmasters and station wagons, section crews and straw bosses
"Son, take out the pot".
Close enough tscspmi - round here I always heard my dad and his generation call the tutle "shell". My dad still does. It always takes me back to that 1958 4 door Chevy Impala - factory turqoise!
I knew we were no longer poor when my dad bought a brand new 1968 gold Belaire for the family car and relegated the '58 to the official "fishin wagon".
When we were in a hurry to get on the water before sunup he wouldn't even bother with the "shell" part . . .
"Son, I'll get the rods (always tied to the luggage rack). Pop that turtle and bring the gear to the boat! Don't drop the keys in the water!"
He always reminded me not to drop the keys in the water. I always assured him just because I had done it once before didn't mean I would do it again. "I won't dad! Gosh!" ::)
A lot of the older, more rounded turtle hulls were more reminiscent of their namesake.
The turtle hull was a pretty amazing thing. Being able to haul and store stuff, out of sight, out of the weather.
There are a lot of things, depending on the particular area, which take a little different nomenclature.
One of my all time "Texas" favorites...
"He's all hat and no cattle."
Cowboy Bob still say's that!
LPRINTCHR$(12)
Carbon paper
Mascara used to come in a cake powder form and you had a little brush that you wet and rubbed on the cake. When our brush would wear out, we'd use Dad's toothbrush. :D
gallery like in porch
company store
company token
In high school me and a friend found some Italian military insginas and some brass company tokens in Camp Livingston (an abandoned military camp) while metal detecting. It looked like some time before that part of camp was a WW2 era Military training facility and p.o.w camp. It had been a logging camp for the Grant lumber company. They were five cent tokens.
I've got some of the company "script" from the coal mines up at Soddy Tennessee.
Quote from: timberfaller390 on April 30, 2008, 01:56:49 PM
I've got some of the company "script" from the coal mines up at Soddy Tennessee.
Think it is "scrip", if referring to "a sort of negotiable promissory note issued to employees in lieu of wages and salaries during hard times." and not some written words, like for a play. :) :) :)
I recently had a ""discussion"" with my wife about that....(didn't win that one either... ;D ;D but I
was right. :)
)
"Balder than Toby's butt"
"If your aunt had ba**s, she'd be your uncle"
Hand me that Ikkumpukky!!!
One my Grandfather was fond of: Worthless as teats on a boar.
Quote from: scsmith42 on April 30, 2008, 07:50:50 AM
One of my all time "Texas" favorites...
"He's all hat and no cattle."
:D :D :D :D
A lot of these remind me of some of my all time cartoons as a kid: Foghorn Leghorn. 8) He'll be passing on a lot of these "defunct" sayings to generations for hundreds of years to come!
G'nite chet.
G'nite, David.
Say goodnite, Gracie.
My grandpa always said (and still says) this: "Let me say this.... about that."
Beenthere thanks for the correction on scrip
"root hog or die"
hotter'n a three dollar pistol
used to go to the "service station" to get Mama cigarettes ( I was about 12 or 13 ) and put 30 cents into a " Cigarette macine" for a pack of Camels. Packaged inside was 2 or 3 pennies under the cellophane on side of pack, for a price of.27 or .28 cents
OK or not? hotter'n a four- balled tomcat!
capitola tokens to get into the "picture show"
Nedicks Orange Soda
The woodstove in the back that said " Do not spit on stove"
Soda Fountain :'(
Polio :)
That's a good one. I don't even think of it anymore.
I guess there would also be some associated with the Atomic Attack drills when we were in school.
Umtee-ump.
Holy Mackeral, Sapphire!
Look what post we made!! :D
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10017/kilroy.JPG)
Used to see this guy doodled on the framing pretty often,one of Dad's helpers that had been a ship's carpenter on a flattop introduced me to art :D hadn't seen him "here" in years.
I've been thinking about Keith, a boy I grew up with all morning. We lost touch after graduation, he lived up the road. Keith was a year ahead of me and never should have gotten polio but somehow it didn't know that, it got in his leg. Every summer and sometimes in the year he would have surgery and be laid up. When he could get outside he was our passing QB, an upper body that was very strong. During those long weeks inside he would make models, not like ours, his were good, perfect paint jobs and highly detailed. That is one disease I'm sure glad we whipped.
Don that Kilroy is just Hunky Dori (another defunct).
The verison that's in my head is with his fingers curled over the wall as well as his nose.
Yep, Kilroy was quite traveled. He appeared all over Europe in WWII and in most every tract home afterwards. :)
I lost a good friend to Polio in the early 50's. In the 40's we would visit his home where he was schooled in bed. I remember knowing that he was in bad fix, but couldn't understand why he didn't come to school more and play with us.
We dreaded the polio shots. They carried all manner of stories like the 'square' needle in the service. When I reached 5th grade, we were eating a block of sugar with the vaccine on it. I wonder if any measures are being taken today?
Quote from: Tom on May 02, 2008, 01:23:07 PM
I wonder if any measures are being taken today?
Tom, both my daughters had an oral polio "vaccine" about 8 to 10 years ago. It is still part of the required childhood immunizations required for enrolling a child in school here.
Another saying my granddad was famous for repeating. You have to imagine an old guy saying this with an extreme Texan drawl... "If yer are thinking about marrying a girl and want to know what she'll look like in 20 years, jus' look at her mother!"
Quote from: Warbird on May 02, 2008, 01:33:47 PM
Another saying my granddad was famous for repeating. You have to imagine an old guy saying this with an extreme Texan drawl... "If yer are thinking about marrying a girl and want to know what she'll look like in 20 years, jus' look at her mother!"
And I heard it said "what she'll BE like" too.
My name will go down in history pages.
My name will be sung throught the ages!
Tonight my heart is filled with joy,
For I was here before Kilroy!
I wonder how many Soda Jerks will be put outta work with the Market Downturn. ??? ;D
You might think it's none of my Beeswax but they shoulda seen the handwriting on the wall. ::)
Some coulda got a job at JJ Newberry's or Sittin' Shotgun for the Stage Coach.
They just got caught with their pants down kinda like the blind leading the blind eh? :D
Now their gonna be Dirt Poor. I'm sure some are foaming at the mouth.
Maybe they're hiring down at the Car Hop.
Going back to the polio comments for a moment, I had a younger cousin who contracted polio. He was more fortunate than some. He was bed ridden for two or three months. He never had to spend any time in an iron lung and the bed rest period was in the summer so he missed very little school.
The disease left him with one arm that is smaller than the other to this day. He never allowed that to hinder him. He was a state champion wrestler in high school and had a thirty year career as a police officer.
Quote from: Don P on May 01, 2008, 08:24:11 PM
The woodstove in the back that said " Do not spit on stove"
Down at the feed store where we have traded since they opened in 1948 they still heat with a huge pot belly stove. It's built out of rough cut lumber has hardwood floors and cold cokes and orange crush in glass bottles. It's probably my favorite loafin spot in the world.
Concerning white gas.
The original anti-knock additive was made by the Ethyl corporation. To mark their product, they added a dye to the additive--I think it was red--so that the gasoline with their product could be distinguished by the consumer.
Gasoline with the Ethyl companies additive became known as "Ethyl", and gasoline with out the additive--and thus colorless--became known as "white gas". The practice of adding a dye to gasoline was continued by subsequent makers of the additives.
Picking a mess of peas.Could be used for beans too.
Wed morning I struck out at 7:30 to get things fixed up.Struck is the word here.Have not heard that word for a long time.
If your eyes were in danger.... "Watch your eyes".... that one makes me think every time... goes for any part of the body I guess...
LSMFT
I'll bet that one will stump some of the younger members, Tom. :)
You jogged my memory, Tom. I remember the little guy with the uniform and odd cap: "Call for Phillip Morris".
Not with a ten foot pole :D
"Kilroy was here"
"This is the watchbird watching you"
"LSMFT" I bet the last letter stands for tobacco. ;D
6-12
6-12! I remember that stuff. It was a mosquito repellant that came in a tube like Chapstick. I also remember that the camoflage stuff the Army used to smear on a soldier's skin was exactly the same stuff. It was just 6-12 with coloring in it. Who says the military doesn't have any sense? Of course, they probably paid $5 a tube for the stuff, when we could get it at the grocery store for 29 cents.
yer right, danG. 6-12 was a mosquito repellant. It started life as a small bottle of some really caustic material suspended in Mineral oil. It would peel the paint from an automobile, passing at 50 mph.
I've seen fishing plugs lose their color and plastic ones turn into a puddle. The stuff wasn't all that good on mosquitos and ticks, but it was all we had. :D
I never have been able to watch my eyes. My honker is always in the way.
oooooh-chee-wawa! Hotterna two-dollar pistol!
Tom, I'd rather fight than switch! :D
"666"
"Black Draught"
That first one still makes me grimmace! :o
Hadacol
Not knowing that 666 was a Florida company, I was walking in downtown Jacksonville and passed a store front/warehouse with signs in the door identifying it as the 666 company. It appeared to have been empty for a long time. The windows were dirty, dust was everywhere, cobwebs hung in the entrance. I tried to peek inside, but couldn't see. Running through my mind was the thought, I'm looking at history here. this was quite a few years ago and I'm not sure I could find the building again. It might not even exist. I might have been looking into the jaws of evil and not known it. It looked like I might have been.
Articles I've read to the company about the name indicate that there was no problem until the movie "The Omen". I have to believe that someone in the company knew. There were a lot more Pulpit Pounding Preachers in those days than today and most everyone had a Bible. Revelations has always been a popular book and 666, The Mark of the Beast, a known number. They just had to have known. :P :)
Well, if you ever had to take 666 cold medicine (old yeller)
, there was no mistake it was the spawn of satan. :D
Quote from: tcsmpsi on May 01, 2008, 01:55:12 PM
G'nite, David.
Say goodnite, Gracie.
I got a couple of my Netflix rentals in Saturday (Herbie Goes Bananas and Lake Placid 2). Watching Lake Placid 2 the sheriff (John Schnieder), as he was about to introduce a grenade into one of those huge crocs, said, "Say good nite, Gracie." Certainly, that was the high point of the film for me. ;D
Dum dee Dum Dum
My granddaddy would refer to a little kid as a "spizzerinctum." He would say, "Ain't he a spizzerinctum, though?"
My Grandma would get the "heebiejeebies."
An old boss of mine used to call kids pantry bandits, curtain climbers, tricycle motors, and little yous.
And Grandpa would try to scare the bejesus out of you.
My memory says that 6-12 was dibutly phthalate. This compound has more recently been used as a plastizer and has acquired a bad reputation.
If you still have some 6-12, don't use it!
I only used it then when I had too.
Thanks for the heads-up, Beweller.
I never knew what the stuff was. I guess I'll take the opportunity now to go find out what dibutly phthalate is. :P
What's the matter, you got the mully grubs?
"It looks like a Mercury, sucking a lemon".
(Got more than Carter has little pills) no ideal were that saying came from but dad would use it.
Has anyone offered 10,2and4 yet?
10, 2, 4?
You mean D P?
Quote(Got more than Carter has little pills) no ideal were that saying came from but dad would use it
Youster be a company that made "Carter's Little Liver Pills".
We refered to them as "Carter's Little Farter Starters". Came in a little green cylinder, about the size of a Chapstick tube. They were little bitty ol' things, which I suspect created the whim. For a small container, there was room for oodles of the nasty things (personal opinion). :D
Over in these neck of the woods, was used as, "More (whatevers) than Carter's got liver pills". Of course, that being my last name, there were always some special little sayings made up from time to time by the boys in the hood.
Quote from: Haytrader on May 12, 2008, 03:38:53 PM
10, 2, 4?
You mean D P?
yep got a old plastic dp clock shaped like a bottle cap with the 10,2and 4 over sized
I don't know Tom but a Studebaker keeps coming to mind :D
Hey, HEY. Don't go pokin fun at them Studebutchers. They was my first 2 cars. Wish I could buy a brand new one, today. 8) 8) ;D ;D :) :)
I just can't think of the name of those cars, Tom. They just made them a couple of years in the late 50's and I was too busy then trying to get my buddy Ed to Sell me his moped :D :D
When's the last time you used the term 'cigarette machine' ?
My dad has a few from his days in the Maine woods.
Someone says, "Well I thought..." and the response is "Well ya know what thought did? If I had a s**t in one hand and a thought in the other, which one d'ya think would weigh more?"
And in reply to any question concerning math: "well a s**t and two is eight, and a faht's a fraction."
I've never heard these anywhere, except from my dad, and his old Maine woods friends.
How about "running balls out"? I believe this referred the governor on a steam engine.
"Three sheets to the wind", "Hell bent for election"
We had a party line when I was a kid. Our ring was the letter "K" in Morse code... Hey - there's another one! And I remember doing "Duck & Cover" drills once in a while when I was a kid.
Also, Amoco Ultimate premium unleaded is still clear "white" gasoline today.
QuoteI just can't think of the name of those cars
Edsel, Br'er Noble, Edsel. :D
We drove a Studebaker too. Good Car.
Atlanta Crackers---back when baseball was really fun, and you didn't even know it was a derogatory term?
I'd walk a mile for a Camel
Back when I was a young boy and spending a lot of time with my grandparents, listening to the markets on A M radio while eating an early breakfast was the norm. I remember a tire dealer's ad. The dealers name was Leanord Tire in Dodge City and is still in business. The original owners grandson now runs it. The ad went like this.
Hannigan, Flanigan, Shanigan. All good Irish names.
But Kelley is the name to remember.
Kelley Springfield tires.
I just heard this in a movie yesterday:
"Bob's your uncle!"
I don't know what it means...but from the context, it seems to be used as if to say "that's all you need to do," For example, let's say you're explaining how to do something to someone, and you might say, "well, all you need to do is slide the whatchamacalit into the whizamadoo, and Bob's your uncle!" Sort of like "presto" or "voila!"
Is that right...or can someone else enlighten me?
Paschale,
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/70100.html (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/70100.html)
Quote from: Paschale on June 02, 2008, 10:32:32 PM
I just heard this in a movie yesterday:
"Bob's your uncle!"
I don't know what it means...but from the context, it seems to be used as if to say "that's all you need to do," For example, let's say you're explaining how to do something to someone, and you might say, "well, all you need to do is slide the whatchamacalit into the whizamadoo, and Bob's your uncle!" Sort of like "presto" or "voila!"
Is that right...or can someone else enlighten me?
I believe you are correct - it's a common British expression for doing something right. Here's another one an English cousin of mine used when he was saying something was a waste of time: "Blow this for a game of soldiers".
"Bob's your uncle" seems to be a longer way of saying "duh" :)
i dont remember if this has been mentioned but i have a cousin whos favorite saying is. well ill swanny. he uses it a lot.
Bobs your uncle is a way of saying that the job is done , all is well ,
Like Load the lugage ,shut the boot and bobs your uncle .
Got relatives in ausie land they speak that kind od upside down english.
Quote from: Don_Papenburg on June 03, 2008, 11:37:21 PM
Got relatives in ausie land they speak that kind od upside down english.
:D :D :D :D Where is asy?
" It Floats ! "
99.9 percent pure!
Stick that in yer pipe and smoke it.
It sorta meant "what I'm telling you is the truth whether you like it or not"
Look sharp! Feel sharp! Be sharp!
You'll wonder where the yellow went...
A little Dab'l do yuh!
Brellcream? or something like that.
Roar with Gilmore
That would be from your time Tom ;D
Take it off, take it all off..........
Tom did :D.
It's shieke and bieke, and I halped. ;D ;D
I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
"Where's the beef?"
Quote from: woodbowl on June 04, 2008, 10:38:24 PM
I can't believe I ate the whole thing.
plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is. :D
I want You
Remember these? (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16183/burma_shave_signs.gif)
iffy, I remember seeing signs like that in Washington state put up by Noot's restaurant.
Car in ditch.
Driver in tree.
Moon was full.
So was he.
Eat at Noot's
I don't recall the Burma Shave signs in Canada but we heard about them.
Burma Shave kept us kids occupied on trips, much to the pleasure of my folks. :D I wish the signs were displayed today.
Mom had a bunch of good sayings:
"You'll have to lick your calf over"
If she didn't like the way you did something, usually cleaned your room.
"You've gone to a goat house for wool"
Which meant I don't know.
and "Great balls of fire!" was the closest she ever came to cussing.
BurmaShave:
Verse by the Side of the Road, Frank Rowsome, Jr.,1965.
Claims to have "all 700 of the roadside rhymes".
"If you
Don't know
Whose signs
These are
You can't have
Driven very far".
That's a good note to keep. Especially if you want the signs in print. If you can handle them from a page on the Internet, here is a link to a site that has them. (http://www.fiftiesweb.com/burma1.htm) :)
Quote from: easymoney on June 03, 2008, 06:18:53 PM
i dont remember if this has been mentioned but i have a cousin whos favorite saying is. well ill swanny. he uses it a lot.
"Well I swanny/Suwannee!!" Had to get out the map to get the spelling right despite the many crossings. Old southern lady's exclamation. (and a lot of young southern ladies too) I can remember my grandmother using that expression many times.
Thanks for bringing back a pleasant memory.
One that comes to mind because of the recent weather in the midwest:
Dry weather will scare you. Wet weather will starve you.
How about
Ring, click. "I'm not here, please leave a Message"
"Hey Dave, If you are there pick up, Dave... Comon dave, pick up.... *%!@ answering machines"
This is perhaps off-subject, but it is great for bugging kids/grandkids.
The vulture eats between his meals
And that is why he seldom feels
As well as you or I.
His head is bald, his eyes are dim,
His neck is growing thinner--
Oh what a lesson to us all
To only eat at dinner!
I always heard the saying balls to the wall as going fast. It's from the flyweight governors swinging out as far as possible and bouncing against the shields that kept the oil from spraying. how about darker than five feet up a cows a**?
"Balls to the wall", I was told, was a saying used by pilots. The throttle, spark and other knobs/plungers have balls on their ends. when they are all pushed forward to the face of the control panel, the plane is "all out".
The other saying is just a common, crude term that is still in use by some people in a limited audience.
My grandfather's term for one of life's unpleasant experiences: "the green apple two-step".
one of my dads sayings was "too dumb to poke sand down a rat hole"
james
"Back in the day everybody hereabouts made whiskey 'ceptin the Baptist preacher. He made barrels"
Hot box!
Gitchermindouttadagutter! It's a railroad term when cars had journal boxes that had a metal door. Inside were two mops. You'd periodically walk along the train and use a hook to open the journal's door, suck out the oil with water in it using a manual hand vac, then pour fresh oil in. The mops kept the axles lubed. A hotbox was when a journal ran out of oil and the axle got hot. We would always be on the lookout for smoke coming from a journal box. Now, all the cars use sealed bearings.....so........no more railroad hot boxes.
Remember Sunoco Gasoline? In the mid '60s they had pumps where you could dial your octane. Sunoco 260 was the hottest gas on the market. Good for all those muscle cars.
Here's a couple from downunder,
For some one not quite right in the head the following:
-He's got a couple of kangaroos loose in the top paddock
-A sandwich short of a picnic
-Not the full quid
-A stubbie short of a six pack
-mad as a cut snake
Born with a rainbow out his backside = fortunate
Flat out like a lizard drinking = means your busy
My back teeth are floating = the need to urgently urinate
You can't breed kangaroos out of wallabies = a wallaby is a small type of kangaroo, it means 2 small parents can't breed tall offspring
Charlie,
That Sunoco 260 was awesome stuff ! I used to run it in my dirt bike . When I was flush with cash I'd put in in my Mercury Cyclone GT but the darn stuff cost almost 45 cents a gallon and only rich kids could swing that .
"Pull out all the stops'' ( Like on a pipe organ )
"Slip shod workmanship" ( like a horse with the shoes not tight)
"Thats a long row to hoe" (self explanitory)
"he's kinda long in the tooth" ( how you age a horse)
"don't look a gift horse in the mouth" (Be thankful for it no matter his age)
"lets put on the feed bag" (a bag of oats tied right up to the horses mouth at dinner time)
"grinin' like a briar eatin mule"
"Its time to hit the sack"
"Its time to call the dogs" (this hunts over)
"too old to cut the mustard" (I'm not sure about this one!!)
You can't catch a rabbit with your dog tied.........
Quote from: SAW MILLER on July 17, 2008, 08:37:36 PM
"too old to cut the mustard" (I'm not sure about this one!!)
We used to say that something, "doesn't cut the mustard" or "can't cut the mustard" (way back in days when dinosaurs roamed the earth). Here's the explanations that I found:
This expression meaning "to achieve the required standard" is
first recorded in an O. Henry story of 1902: "So I looked around
and found a proposition [a woman] that exactly cut the mustard."
It may come from a cowboy expression, "the proper mustard",
meaning "the genuine thing", and a resulting use of "mustard" to
denote the best of anything. O. Henry in _Cabbages and Kings_
(1894) called mustard "the main attraction": "I'm not headlined
in the bills, but I'm the mustard in the salad dressing, just the
same." Figurative use of "mustard" as a positive superlative dates
from 1659 in the phrase "keen as mustard", and use of "cut" to
denote rank (as in "a cut above") dates from the 18th century.
Other theories are that it is a corruption of the military phrase
"to pass muster" ("muster", from Latin _monstrare_="to show", means
"to assemble (troops), as for inspection"); that it refers to the
practice of adding vinegar to ground-up mustard seed to "cut" the
bitter taste; that it literally means "cut mustard" as an example of
a difficult task, mustard being a relatively tough crop that grows
close to the ground; and that it literally means "cut mustard" as
an example of an easy task (via the negative expression "can't
even cut the mustard"), mustard being easier to cut at the table
than butter.
QuoteWe used to say that something, "doesn't cut the mustard" or "can't cut the mustard"
I still regularly use "Won't cut the mustard" or more often shortened to "Won't cut it" meaning just not good enough.
Tim L. , you had a Mercury Cyclone? 8) I owned a 1964 Comet 202 with a 289 C.I. engine and 4 speed on the floor. I put a Cobra Kit into the engine which were different heads with bigger valves and heavier valve springs. A higher lift cam, solid lifters, higher compression pistons and heavier connecting rods and bearings. It was supposed to give me 271 H.P. I also had a dual exhaust made for it, dual point distributor, a super hot coil and a Series E, AFB Carter carb (BIG Venturi and I ported the intake manifold). I put on traction master and a set of Butyl tires on the back. 327 Chevies were no problem and I could take a 389 G.T.O. Tripower through 3rd gear, then their cubic inches got me. Geeeeez I loved my Comet....wish I still had it.
I had a 1970 Cyclone GT with a 351 cleveland . It came with dual exhaust but to save money Dad and I put on a single . As a result I found if you got into the carb you could blow the exhaust off where the "Y" pipe met the straight pipe .We double clamped it an even put sheet metal screws in it to try and hold it together . My brother had a 1969 Pontiac LeMans convertable . I could take him all day off the line , but after a hundred he owned the road . I hope my mom isn't reading this !
STILL can't outrun yer Mom ::) ::) ::) :D :D
Thats the truth,
As a teenager I wanted to go down to the river with my buddies and mom wouldn't let me go. While walking away (not realizing she was right behind me ) I invoked the "B" word. Well mister, she gave me a tune up that woulda made Dirty Harry proud ! That evening when Dad came home from work and Mom shared the days events , I was treated to the bonus round of whooping . I learned a valuable lesson on respecting my poor frail mother with the Ken Norton punch !
we called it blazo and i filled many lanterns with it trying to combat cabin fever
and what not
Okay, Now I am in a Funk. ;D :D
I´m too lazy to check out 17 pages but I din´t want you to miss:
Busy as a one armed paper hanger.
Has anyone of you actually said, "Hubba hubba." Probably most of you under sixty don´t even know what it means.
comment?
QuoteComment.
Hubba Hubba!! :D
Bob Hope used it (Hubba Hubba) on his armed forces tours as he rolled his eyes... ::) ::)
'spect it was used by those who couldn't whistle at the girls... ;D ;D
can't dance, too wet to plow...
"Not a cough in a carload"
Old Gold
Parts is parts.
Rambler American,Metropolitan, and Rebel
"It's Delightful, it's Delovely, it's DeSoto!"
Who sang it? ;D
I had to go look. :-[
I'm gonna say Dinah Shore. It was used for the Dinah Shore Show......I think.
I'm pretty sure you're right, Charlie. That voice was distinctive, and I can still hear it echoing in this empty head. I don't think it was used on her show, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, though. :D :D
Also Don Durant.
"Here's a dime, call someone who cares"
Dime ...... its up to a Quarter now to call someone who cares! Guess everything is going up.
I don't think a quarter will even do it down here. :There aren't anymore Pay Telephones. :-\
Well, I'm fair to middlin', thank you.
Busy as a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
Drive with care buy sinclare.
If you want to run with the BIG DOGS you have to get out from under the porch
I was running my mill today and I had that blade "schuck'in the corn."