Post a once popular expression that people don't use any more.

[swag]

I'll start with one that was popularized by the bad 1970s television program Welcome Back, Kotter:

"Off my case, toilet face."

[1gobluedem]

1. No way, Jose

Off the wall

[WannaBeGrumpy]

68. I use that all the time!!!

:hi:

[RedStateShame]

2. "I cannot tell a lie."

[riona]

3. The cat's pajamas

[u4ic]

67. I called

Mrs Grumpy that last week...:yoiks:

[taterguy]

4. Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!!!!!

[swag]

7. Oh, thank god that one's gone.

I really liked Steve Martin at all, but that expression was far too successful.

[MrCoffee]

5. Gag me with a spoon.

[Book Lover]

6. Cooking with gas!

[XNASA]

8. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"

You never hear that anymore.

[Sugar Smack]

9. "My bad". I'm dancing on "my bad's" grave as we speak.

*Skol!* :toast:

[swag]

13. "My bad" was so fucking awful, you're right.

[ThomCat]

38. A kid said that to me yesterday

after walking into me, kicking my crutches and tripping me. All he said was "my bad" as he walked away. :grr:

[querelle]

47. That's Awful!

If I had been with you, I would have de-nutted the little bastard. FUCK! Why are some people such dickheads?

Q

[ThomCat]

53. Because if it doesn't hurt them, they don't have a reason to care.

:hug:

[querelle]

63. But Still..........

I'm not a violent guy by nature, but that sort of thing sends me into a rage. Is that bad? I feel so bad for you. If I could, I would defend you against such brutes. I hate to see anybody being picked on. Makes me so angry. I'm normally a calm and sedate sort of guy, but injustice just sends me off the deep end. I get really mouthy and bellicous when I see things that piss me off.

Q

[ThomCat]

100. It's not bad at all. It's very cool

that you'd be there for me like that. :hug:

Though if you really had been, I'd probably just ask for a hand getting up and then I'd have been in a possition to verbally ripped him up. :)

[WolverineDG]

96. That's terrible!

If I'd been there, he'd have had a couple of damaged kneecaps. We Irish are funny that way....

:grr:

:hug: & :loveya: ThomCat!

dg

[ThomCat]

99. Hiya WDG!

:loveya:

Thank you. I don't generally approve of violence, but I admit, when I'm struggling to stand back up I like friends who stand up for me. :)

[WolverineDG]

101. I'm normally a pacifist myself

& while I might chicken out of the kneecapping (jail really :scared: me), I'm not above "going postal" on someone who pulls that crap.

:loveya:

dg

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

111. After helping you, I'd make sure that I...

"accidentally" tripped/pushed him followed by saying "my bad."

[ThomCat]

116. And then I'd have to laugh at him.

:7

[ashling]

48. I still hear it too much

the sooner it is dead the better off we will all be

[Richard Steele]

55. I blame myself for that. My bad.

[Ariana Celeste]

79. I say that

:rofl:

:7

[Sugar Smack]

97. You're swiftly forgiven, for having such a great sig.

:pals:

[Benfea]

95. I still use it. :P

No text! No text!

[MrCoffee]

10. I voted Republican.

[mad-mommy]

35. you always come up with a good one

[asthmaticeog]

11. May I cheat and just post a link to a site about antiquated slang?

http://www.rugglesrag.com/lookout/OLD-LOOKOUT-DO-NOT-USE/a_19th_century_slang_dictionary.htm

Well I'm gonna anayway, and if you don't like it, how's about I play you a little chin music, highpockets?

[swag]

14. Dandy link.

Thanks.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

44. I heard my grandmother and even parents use some of these

supposedly "nineteenth century" words and phrases.

[asthmaticeog]

56. A couple of them are still current.

They had their origins in the 19th century, which is not to say that they all suddenly and simultaneously fell into disuse on January 1, 1901. :shrug:

[koneko]

12. Where's the beef?

[JitterbugPerfume]

15. see ya later alligator

after while crocodile

[nosillies]

83. My child and I use this daily

Multiple times. In fact, now that I think about, everyone in my family does. We're weird.

[WolverineDG]

16. 22 skiddoo!

Up your nose with a rubber hose.

And if you don't like that, SIT ON IT!! ;)

:hi: swag

dg

[JitterbugPerfume]

18. and in that same spirit

may the bird of paradise fly up your nose


I thought it was 23 skidoo


ooh ! I didn't mean YOUR nose:hi:

[WolverineDG]

23. Gee, thanks

::pulls feathers out of nose::

Maybe it is 23 skiddoo, but 22 rhymes, so I like it better. :P

:hi:

dg

[Courtesy Flush]

50. Try it. You'll like it

[Left Is Write]

71. Wasn't that "Twenty-Three Skidoo"?

[pagerbear]

103. The origin of 23 skidoo

The Flatiron Building is at the intersection of 23rd St., Fifth Avenue and Broadway in NYC. The wind whipping around the building can be ferocious, and in the days when the sight of a lady's ankle was considered quite titillating, young men used to loiter about the building hoping to see something gratifying. Policemen would try to get them to move along, one assumes by telling them to "Skidoo!"

Or so I read somewhere.

[Crabby Appleton]

119. read the same thing nt

[Haole Girl]

17. "The bomb"

It was old, when I was young! And, certainly not something you want to say walking through airport security!

What exactly did that mean, anyway (in the form of a compliment)? I always wondered. :shrug:

[underpants]

19. Oh SNAP that is dope

fly

[Haole Girl]

22. Dope? Really?

I seem to remember hearing it from older people (really old) when I was little. As in, "That was the bomb, back then." But, I never understood it.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

113. Snap is back.

It's really popular with HS kids now.

[WolverineDG]

24. Word n/t

[Haole Girl]

59. OK...I got an answer to my question....

It was used to say "that's great." Sort of what I thought. I've wondered about that for years!! Thanks for starting this post. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

106. It's still used to that meaning in Britain. -nt

[Haole Girl]

118. Really?

Thanks. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

121. Either that, or all the Brits in the F1 group I frequent

live in the distant past. You could check in the DU UK group.

[underpants]

20. "the leopards kept eating my monkeys"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=5570260&mesg_id=5570260

[underpants]

21. "They pelted me with rocks and garbage"

[swimboy]

29. I do and I do and I do for you kids

and this is the thanks I get!

[Pendrench]

25. Is "Show me the money!" finally gone?? I hope so.

[MorningGlow]

26. Give you a knuckle sandwich

Gnarly

Far out

Groovy (although folks try to drag that out of the mothballs repeatedly)

And my personal all-time favorite: "I really pulled a boner" (made a mistake)--my mom keeps using that and I keep trying to get her to stop!

[cobalt1999]

27. "screaming meemies"

My grandmother used to say this, but I haven't heard it in years.

[Ellen Forradalom]

28. Cheese it! It's the fuzz!

[swimboy]

30. You do your thing and I'll do mine.

[ForrestGump]

31. I'm waiting for "sick" to again mean ill

A little while ago, some dude came up to my partner Elvis and I and told us we looked really sick. He seemed all jovial about it, but my co-Elvis was about ready to thump him (or, at least, suggest that he enjoyed adult activities with someone's mother, possibly his own) until I restrained him. My partner's a fair bit older than me, so I felt like the old lady in Airplane explaining that she could speak jive. A few days before some other jovial dude came up to me, in a parking lot, and informed me that my motorcycle was also sick.

What idiot coined that colloquialism? I thought 'phat' was bad, especially when I first started hearing it and thought it was spelled with an 'F.'

[meegbear]

32. Talk to the hand!

Fucking stupid phrase

[HEyHEY]

33. "Rad!"

[ceile]

39. I'll add "gnarly" to that.

[Misunderestimator]

34. "Heavens to Betsy" and "Go to Blazes"

the second was a favorite of my Mom's.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

36. I always hated it when my students said

"That is so retarded!"

I'm glad that expression is gone.

[ThomCat]

41. Unfortunately, they now say "That is so Gay!"

x(

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

115. Ugh...I constantly call out my sisters & their friends on that.

And the thing is, they're not homophobic at all. It's just so common that they don't think about it being offensive.

[Tikki]

37. 'Bitchen'..........

that guy has a bitchen car.


Tikki

[begin_within]

66. It's "Let's Make a Dope Deal," with Bob Bitchen! How's it goin', Bob?

[ceile]

40. Gag me w/ a spoon!

[Fenris]

42. "Take the Nestea plunge!"

I was going to post "This Fresca is delicious," but I don't think anyone ever said that.

[HamdenRice]

43. "Snakes on a plane, man, snakes on a plane"

Lasted about 15 minutes during the earlier part of the summer as part of the hype for the movie -- alleged to mean, "shit happens."

[Blue-Jay]

45. Cool beans!

[idgiehkt]

46. I hated that one

where did it come from? When were beans ever cool? Did I miss something?

[Ravenseye]

57. I say that all the time

seriously.

[querelle]

49. DYNOMITE!

Jimmy Walker always annoyed me.

Q

[AspenRose]

51. "You sound like a broken record"

"The Bee's Knees"

[Phillycat]

52. Off the hook.

And its DC-based derivative, "off the chain". Blergh.

Also, the beer commercial WHASSUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP thing. Oh dear god did I hate that.

[buddhamama]

54. ok, i've heard both those expressions

recently, "off the chain" and "off the hook". granted, it was on t.v. but not re-runs or anything. :shrug:

[Phillycat]

78. Well, by the time something reaches mainstream television

you'd have to be a dork to still be saying it in real life. :D

[buddhamama]

84. *snort*

yeah but i'm such a dork I hadn't heard the expressions in real life. nope, not until i caught them on T.V.

at least i was cool enough to figure out all on my own what they meant. whew! :D

[Joe Fields]

58. Kotter also produced the famous, "Up your nose with a rubber hose."

[anarch]

60. gadzooks!

Great Scott! By jiminy...I'll be dipped in shit.


and my personal favorite, although not ever all that popular:

Well I'll be fucked for a nanny-goat.

[Katina]

61. Far out dude!

vintage vietnam era.

[RedStateShame]

62. "Democrat Joe Lieberman"

[begin_within]

64. "Snakes on a plane!"

[Jokerman]

65. "Peachy Keen"

[mainegreen]

69. Thats the bees knees.

I use that one I like it so much!

[u4ic]

70. "Bugs"

as in "you're bugs" (crazy). Apparently from the 30's/40's...

[u4ic]

72. Sit on it

Ayyyyyyyyyy...

[Left Is Write]

73. Cat's pajamas

[Left Is Write]

74. "Swell", "Keen", and "Neato"

[ScreamingMeemie]

75. I am so stoked!

Although I revived it, by accident, the other night. :hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

80. hehehe I say that all the time

:hi:

[scarlet_owl]

76. HUZZAH!

[chaska]

77. I'm weavil brained and butt sprung...

From some movie I can't remember the name of. Walter Brennen (sp?) was the actor.

[Road Scholar]

81. " Nice lookin' leisure suit" LOL

:rofl:

[ChickMagic]

82. "Hey Daddy-o"

Or down here, "Well, I swann."

[begin_within]

85. "speaks to"

"Her tragic story speaks to the issues of race and class in America."

UGH.

[madinmaryland]

86. This one . . . .

WHAAAAAAAAASSSSSUUUUUPPPP!!1!!

[swag]

87. Woot! Dey it is.

[Lowell]

88. I'm hip

and can you dig it.

[riona]

89. So funny I forgot to laugh

[Sugar Smack]

92. Talk to the hand.

Classic!:rofl:

[Ariana Celeste]

105. Ohhh I hated that one!!

[Magrittes Pipe]

90. "Go up the old dirt road"

As in "I'd like to go up the old dirt road tonight."

[swag]

91. Does Gloria Leonard still edit "High Society" magazine?

Shit man, that was a great rag.

[bikebloke]

93. Turkey!

A derogative term from the 70's. I'd forgotten about until I was watching an old Starsky & Hutch DVD.

[swag]

102. Good one.

And "jive turkey"

And "bull jive"

[southpaw]

94. Psyche! or Psych!

or even Sike! (if you are hooked on phonics)

[Javaman]

98. "capital idea!" "that's really keen".

[libnnc]

104. Well, I swanee!

My great grandmother used to say it instead of saying "I swear!"--'cause she didn't like to "swear".

Bless her heart...

[caty]

107. "It's the bee's knees!!"

:woohoo: :bounce:

[zanne]

108. "well, it's time to hit the rack". nt

[sarge43]

109. Kilroy was here. n/t

[Pool Hall Ace]

110. "Up the cow's ass getting a milkshake."

[quiet.american]

112. From the 70s: "That's the joint!" n/t

[Critters2]

114. Groovy!

Although I never heard anyone but TV characters actually say it.

[Missy Vixen]

117. "Show me the money" n/t

[Crabby Appleton]

120. crooked as a corkscrew -&- totally tubular

[dolo amber]

122. Feed 'em fish heads and hope they choke on 'em

My gran used to say that. I have no idea what it means.