Defunct titles and sayings

[beenthere]

"Kilroy was here"

[beenthere]

"This is the watchbird watching you"

[pigman]

"LSMFT"     I bet the last letter stands for tobacco. ;D

[Tom]

6-12

[DanG]

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.

[Tom]

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

[LeeB]

I never have been able to watch my eyes. My honker is always in the way.

[TexasTimbers]

oooooh-chee-wawa! Hotterna two-dollar pistol!

[Roxie]

Tom, I'd rather fight than switch!   :D

[tcsmpsi]

"666"

"Black Draught"

That first one still makes me grimmace!

[Tom]

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

[tcsmpsi]

Well, if you ever had to take 666 cold medicine (old yeller)
, there was no mistake it was the spawn of satan.     :D

[tcsmpsi]

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 

[Tom]

Dum dee Dum Dum

[DanG]

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."

[Radar67]

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.

[Beweller]

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!

[Tom]

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

[woodbowl]

What's the matter, you got the mully grubs?

[Tom]

"It looks like a Mercury, sucking a lemon".

[limbrat]

(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?

[Haytrader]

10, 2, 4?

You mean D P?

[Fla._Deadheader]

(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".

[tcsmpsi]

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. 

[limbrat]

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