Do You Remember?

You will have to be a certain age to remember these.  Hope they start your long weekend with a smile.

Lost Words from our childhood:

 

Mergatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd? Heavens to Mergatroyd!

 

The other day a not so elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy; and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?"

 

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. 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.

 

Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore.

 

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. Blow it out your shorts. Wake up and smell the roses.

 

It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! (Carter's Little Liver Pills are gone too!)

 

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.

 

Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth...

 

See ya later, alligator!

Okidoki.