Defunct titles and sayings

[Fla._Deadheader]

  "Under the hill ".
Turtle on a car.
So mad, I could spit.
Shoot faar.

[TexasTimbers]

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

[timberfaller390]

I've heared the spare tire carrier on the fender called a turtle

[Woodcarver]

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.

[Radar67]

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" 

[tcsmpsi]

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.

[sawdust]

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

[Beweller]

"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!"

[Don P]

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"    :D

A few I thought of;
Balling the jack, ol dobbin, muleskinners, wagonmasters and station wagons, section crews and straw bosses

[WDH]

"Son, take out the pot".

[TexasTimbers]

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!" :

[tcsmpsi]

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.

[scsmith42]

One of my all time "Texas" favorites...

"He's all hat and no cattle."

[Roxie]

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

[limbrat]

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.

[timberfaller390]

I've got some of the company "script" from the coal mines up at Soddy Tennessee.

[beenthere]

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. 
)

[stumpy]

"Balder than Toby's butt"
"If your aunt had ba**s, she'd be your uncle"

[Slabs]

Hand me that Ikkumpukky!!!

[Woodcarver]

One my Grandfather was fond of: Worthless as teats on a boar.

[Paschale]

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!

[Tom]

G'nite chet.

[tcsmpsi]

G'nite, David.




Say goodnite, Gracie.

[Warbird]

My grandpa always said (and still says) this:  "Let me say this....  about that."

[timberfaller390]

Beenthere thanks for the correction on scrip
"root hog or die"