Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Lost Words.....



Hi Everybody....
Are we ready for this weeks list of Old Timey words or phrases?
Please join in, you'll be The Bee's Knees if you do.

Sal Hapatica
The Bum's Rush
Gin Mill
Beer Garden
Jitney
Palooka
Pin Curls
Babooshka
Moxie
Gams...Mmmmmm...Gams ( I'm saving Quim for next week )

11 comments:

Brian Miller said...

ha. i know most of there...i have been in a bum rush before...

whippersnapper...

Margaret said...

"wench-muffin"

I don't know if it is an old saying, but when I was a teenager, my group of friends used it to describe a girl we didn't like. I said it the other day (in a humorous way) and my children almost fell over laughing... So, I offer it up here as "archaic"...

LOVE Whippersnapper!

Margaret said...

Beer Garden will never go out of style! :)

Maude Lynn said...

I've always wanted to grow beer!

hedgewitch said...

Margaret got me started on faded slang:

Far out
fab gear
mods and rockers
hepcat
whammalammadingdong

I could go on, but it would be wrong.

And isn't that pic of the guy who said back in his day women used aspirin for birth control by putting it between their knees?? Not even *I* am that old.


Fireblossom said...

Laffin @ MZ!

lime said...

pin curls? how about permanent wave?

bee's knees? how about cat's pajamas?

Akelamalu said...

stockings and suspenders ;)

Unknown said...

bloomers? Twist (referring to a woman)? I don't hear anyone refer to women as broads anymore. Cocksure. Lozenge. Chocolate soda. FlimFlam. Punchdrunk. Corker. Doxy.

That's all I got right now...

See you in the funny papers!

TALON said...

Beer Garden - yay - we used to have some fun at beer gardens. :) Thanks for the memories, G!

GAB said...

Aww G-man ya made me cry! I walked backwards to read a few I missed and came a pond this post to see pin curls......my mom used to put pin curls in my hair all the time. Its one of my fondest memories of my mom yanking my hair into place. No she wasnt being mean I had the most unrully hair and many many Cowlicks or Hair whorls. But it was a good memory either way Im just glad someone else knows about pin curls!