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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zogman" data-source="post: 173314" data-attributes="member: 328"> [COLOR= ]          LOST WORDS OF OUR YOUTH                      Heavens to Murgatroyd!Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word  murgatroyd?Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as  the buggy whip! Sad really!The other day a not so  elderly (65) (I say 75)  lady said something to her son about driving a  Jalopyand he looked at her quizzically and said "What the heck is  a Jalopy?OMG (new) phrase!  He never heard of the word  jalopy!!She knew she was old but not that old.Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle.About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions  that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy,""You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry."Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie.We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly  right.Heavens to Betsy!Gee  whillikers!Jumping Jehoshaphat!Holy moley!We were in like Flynn and living the life of Riley,and  even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a  pill.Not for all the tea in China!Back in the olden days, life used to be swell,but  when's the last time anything was swell?Swell has  gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.;of spats,  knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers.Oh, my aching back. Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.We wake up from what surely has been just a short  nap,and before we can say, well I'll be a monkey's uncle! or,This is a fine kettle of fish! we discover that the words we grew up  with,the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished  with scarcelya notice from our tongues and our pens and our  keyboards.Poof, go the words of our youth, the  words we've left behindWe blink, and they're gone. Where have all  those phrases gone?Long gone: Pshaw,The milkman did it.Hey! It's your nickel.Don't forget to pull the chain.Knee  high to a grasshopper.Well, Fiddlesticks!Going like sixty.I'll see you in the funny papers.Don't take any wooden nickels.It turns  out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver  pills.This can be disturbing stuff !We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times.  For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the  other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are  words that once did not exist and there were words that once strutted their hour  upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective  memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging.See ya later, alligator!  THE REALLY SAD ASPECT OF  ALL THIS IS THAT THEY'VE ALL BEEN REPLACED WITH THE     UNFIT WORDS  ............THE 'F' BOMB CURSE.       THAT ALOT ON HERE LOVE TO USE.HOW SAD IS THAT.  IT IS EASIER TO DESCEND THAN  ASCEND...[/COLOR]</blockquote>

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