Did grizzled old prospectors really uses terms like “Dag nab it!” or “Consarn it!”?
I don’t know, but my dad doesn’t like to swear and he will very sincerely shout “DADGUMIT!” which I believe is “goddamn it” spelled sideways.
I bet I’d like her. I’ve often referred to myself as a hippiebilly.
I don’t dispute it was historically accurate, I’m just saying it’s not used anymore. I’m old enough to remember the DJ playing a B-side; now it’d just be another single.
…& while we’re at it, why do we still have a DJ/Disc Jockey on the radio station? It was the guy who used to spin the records (disks); you could even make an argument for the term for the guy who play the compact discs, but now all music is electronic; all they do is push some buttons.
I think a lot of radio stations still use CDs.
Edit: Hell, into the 90’s there were a lot of radio stations that still used vinyl records.
Moon-calf
Towhead
“Soup-and-fish” referring to a tuxedo
“Bread-and-butter letters”: thank-you letters
My favorite out of fashion term is “beauty parlor”, which brings to mind ladies in curlers sitting under helmet-like dryers getting a wash and set from a beautician - other terms you don’t hear much anymore. Now everyone goes to a salon and gets a cut and color from their stylist.
bitchen for great.
gnarley for a challenging, whatever.
get it on for sex.
peachy keen for cool.
and huba huba for wow, she looks hot. To be said while shaking a downturned wrist frantically, and making the eyes get big.
“fox” for hottie of either gender
None of your lip, young lady!
Fresh!
Can’t believe that nobody (myself included) thought of this one until now:
Dime store.
Like, there’s any stores around that still have very many items that sell for a dime?
hot to trot
cassette
walkman
hurray
swell
gee willikers
10-4 good buddy
bear in the air
high-falutin
jive turkey
4-track VHS
8-track tape
popped her cherry
age of aquarius
zoot suit
whaz happenin’ bro?
let the good times roll
coupon clipping
greenstamps
debonair
Ann Coulter
MySpace Whore
sixty-nine
milksop
knickerbocker
ice cream man
…not!
metrosexual
cool
O rly
peace, man
qanat
sperry topsiders
gag me with a spoon
zoiks
Or in the trades “One lines” or “As builts”
LOL… Mine would say OH…SHHHHHHugar. Which probably would have been “Oh Shit” if us kids were not around!
I never heard “Dime Store”. The more common term was five and time. I didn’t hear that one either, but we had a five and ten in my home town until only about a decade ago. – a Ben Franklin store. The chain still exists, but not anywhere near where i grew up any more.
(Woolworth was the famous “five and ten”. Knowing that helps you understand the Groucho Marx patter: “That’ll get you ten years in Leavenworth or Eleven years in Twelveworth. Or Five and Ten at Woolworth.”)
It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to the latest popular beat combos on the tranny.
tranny - transistor radio
For some reason you still see “silver fox” for the Anderson Cooper/Tim Gunn type. Mostly in, you know, Vanity Fair.
Dumpster is a trade name of Dempster Brothers Inc., but they haven’t been very successful at keeping it from becoming generic.
While Pitney Bowes owned the Dictaphone name, they were very vigilant and protective of their trade name, and if they saw it with a lower-case “d” they’d fire off a letter to the offending publication. I think that stopped when their new owner went into bankruptcy, but I can’t be sure. Now it’s just “dictaphone.”
Despite Sony’s best marketing attempts, the term Walkman appears to be well on it’s way out, replaced by the iPod.
When I was in high school, it was all about the Walkman. I’m sad to see the term go.
Dime Store was the phrase I heard most often. All the smaller outlying towns had a Kresge store. Remember those? They eventually grew too big for their britches and mutated into K-Mart.
ETA: I never did learn how you’re supposed to pronounce Kresge. But I know when to use an apostrophe in words like “you’re”