Favorite old school words, phrases, or slang?

[phillybri]

I'm talking about stuff only people over 60 still say.

Sadly, I'm coming up snake eyes on good examples...:grr:

[RT Atlanta]

1. a few

Whipper snapper
Tally wacker
Philly
Icebox - my personal fave!

[XNASA]

2. Muckety-muck

[GOPisEvil]

5. I used muckety-muck this very morning in an e-mail.

What does that say about me?

[madrchsod]

3. shit i`m 57 and ran around alot

with guys who are in their 60`s now and i`m drawing a blank...other than "fuck`n a"

[HEyHEY]

4. "What kind of outfit you running?"

[phillybri]

7. That's a good one...

Along with "where do you hail from?"

[Richardo]

14. Related: "No way to run a railroad"

:D

[Speck Tater]

6. That skaliwag needs a trip to the woodshed.

That rake should be in the hooskow.
Plum tuckered.

[LiberalEsto]

8. hoity toity...

high and mighty,
looking a fright,
screaming meemies,
jibber-jabber,
getting the willies,

and here's one from my generation (I'm only 52),
far f*cking out!

[Worst Username Ever]

9. daddy-o

cool cat
"boss"

[Richardo]

15. I'm on a personal mission to reintroduce "I'm hip"

...back into the national consciousness.

I admit I DO get some eye-rolls and sideways looks when I say that. :D

[Magrittes Pipe]

10. Yo yo, H-dog's in tha hizzouse, a'ight!

Oh, wait....

[Canuckistanian]

11. Flibertygibbet

[Beware the Beast Man]

12. 23-skidoo!

:silly:

[blackcat77]

13. "Codswallop" nt

[trof]

16. I love my wife, but oh you kid!

So's yer old man.
She's the cat's meow, the bee's knees.
Tell it to the Marines.
That and a nickel will get you a cup of coffee.
If I had a nickel for every time I've_____, I'd be a rich man today.
Yo mama wears combat boots.
Do you like that (outfit) as well as what they're wearing NOW?
It'll (car) stop on a dime and give you 9 cents change.
Look what the cat drug in. (Hi, where'd you come from?)
He just keeps showing up, like a bad penny.

I remember these, but don't really use many of them any more.
Oh, "cool" has been cool since I was about 15, almost 50 years ago.

[lpbk2713]

17. Make it snappy.

Skip it.
Ya big lug.
Ya big mug.
Why I oughtta......
I think you're swell.

(Trying to think of other lines from Cagney movies)

[Richardo]

18. "Get Mugsy on the blower"

[underpants]

19. MAAAaaaaaaaTLOCK!!!!!!!!

[Richardo]

20. "Ahoy ahoy? I want this package on the next autogyro to Persia"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

21. "Now you're really cooking with gas"

"Quit repeating yourself like a broken record." (This one would have to be explained to today's youth.)




Those are from the senior citizen generation. The baby boomer generation had the following, at least in my small town in Minnesota:

"Sharp!" --as a term of approval
"Neat!"-- ""
"Simple"--as a term of disapproval
"That's as useful as a screendoor on a submarine."
"Society" --the kids who ruled the school, set the fashions, and were mean to all the other kids. They actually referred to themselves in this way.
"Hoods"--working class kids who broke all the rules and affected a defiant attitude
"Playing car-car"--having sex in a car
"Swear to God!!" or "Swear to God?"--"Really!"
"Groovy." By the time it reached my town, "groovy" was no longer a term of approval. Instead, it was a disparaging term for anything that adults thought up based on a mistaken idea of what might appeal to teenagers. For example, when a non-descript local clothing store held a "Hootenanny Summer Sale" ("Hootenanny" being the name of a pop music variety show in the early 1960s), that was "groovy" in the bad sense.
"Hold me back!" What you said to your friends when a particularly attractive member of the opposite sex appeared.
Expressing complete lack of sympathy by moving your index finger in circles on your thumbnail. This was supposed to represent "the world's smallest recordplayer playing 'My Heart Bleeds for You.'"
"Plowed"--drunk
"Zero"--used as an adjective to mean "really, really bad." Example: "Have you ever seen him in swim trunks? He has a zero bod!"

[Westegg]

22. So's yer old man; tough titty; tell it to the Marines...

The deuce, you say; pulling a frown; that was beautful to the limit; I gumshoed away like Raffles; biting holes in the carpet; And how!; the wheels were slipping and I had no sand; perfectly awful; let's us go automobiling; Oh, but wasn't he the lad with the lingo...

And my personal favorite: "Good heavens!" he ejaculated.

[Westegg]

23. Take a load off on the davenport, why don'cha? Give those dogs some air.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. You're really a compendium of those expressions

:-)

[Brewman_Jax]

25. What 'chu got there?

Some stuff and some junk!

Boy, talk about old! :D