What ol' timey words should we bring back? I say: "Gams."

[Arugula Latte]

As in, "Whooeee, look at the gams on that gal!"

[Left Is Write]

1. Many years ago (like 20) I worked with a man who liked to say gams.

It seemed to be one of his favorite words.

[Arugula Latte]

3. He and I will bring it back!

Mark my word. Which is "gams."

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. LOL! I actually used that word a week or so ago!

I don't remember ever using the word before (though I've long known what it means), but I saw a woman with beautiful gams and actually said to myself, "Holy Shit! What a pair of gams!"

I have no idea why my mind fed me that word, instead of the other word that I have *always* used instead.

I like it when my brain feeds me a word from out of my ordinary lexicon.

[Left Is Write]

4. When I hear (or read) the word gams...

I automatically think of Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth.

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. And Bettie Page.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Okay, then Rabrrrr,

you and I and Left is Write's co-worker from 20 years ago are starting a movement right here and now. Power to the people!

[Buddyblazon]

7. I still use it....

I like "square".

As in:
"What a square!"

[Arugula Latte]

9. And then we should make the traditional "four-sides" hand motion

to go along with it.

[bertha katzenengel]

8. Me: "God, look at those legs... " Mrs. V.: "She's got legs?"

:rofl:

[democracyindanger]

10. Huzzah

As in, "Huzzah, look at the gams on that gal!"

[AccessGranted]

11. Fiddlesticks and Whippersnapper and Prestadigitation

and I like Huzzah as well. I say that a lot because I hear it every year when I go to the Renaissance Festival

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. a bounder

and a boor, cur, lout, scoundrel and rogue. I can think of several individuals in the Bush Administration who fit the image of a bounder.

(bounder: An ill-bred, unscrupulous man, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, 2000)

[AVulgarianHue]

13. Yes! And blackguard n/t

[Left Is Write]

17. "Damned bounder!"

[datasuspect]

14. "hamburg steaks"

instead of "hamburgers"

[datasuspect]

15. "crack wise"

as in: "listen mug, don't crack wise, see, the dame's in the car and she's ridin' wit me, see?"

[Left Is Write]

19. I like "crack wise." I've even been known to use it now and then.

How about stogie? Does anyone say stogie anymore?

[timtom]

16. toots

As in, "Howdy, Toots!"

Movies and radio shows from the late thirties seem to indicate that "toots" was a unisexual term -- applied to both men and women.

[_testify_]

18. I like the cut o'yer jib!

[Gildor Inglorion]

20. "Shitepoke" for a long-billed, long-legged wading bird

It's so descriptive and apt.

[Tikki]

21. ...wen....

WEN....A harmless cyst, especially on the scalp or face, containing the fatty secretion of a sebaceous gland.

My doctor told me: nobody calls them wens...anymore. She told me the term was archaic.



Tikki