Terms Which Have Disappeared

• Aug 26, 2017

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2jakes

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My father also used to say that.

As many times as I’ve seen this movie, when Rod Steiger is on
I forget that there are other actors in the scene with him.
That’s how good he was for me.
Dr. Zhivago is another.

 

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• Aug 26, 2017

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wallypop

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How about: "picture on a post office wall?"

 

• Aug 26, 2017

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wallypop said:

How about: "picture on a post office wall?"

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Come to think of it, I haven't seen pictures of wanted fugitives at the Post Office in so long I can't remember how long it has been.

Used to be a standard joke. As in, "I think I recognize his face. Saw it at the Post Office, I think."

 

• Aug 27, 2017

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2jakes said:

"The Natural”, 1984
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Wet nurse is another one that you don't hear.

 

• Aug 27, 2017

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2jakes

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“Operator”
(When a human voice would answer instead of a recording)

 

• Aug 27, 2017

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Calling "No bottle caps" when choosing which team would bat first.

 

• Aug 27, 2017

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2jakes said:

My father also used to say that.

As many times as I’ve seen this movie, when Rod Steiger is on
I forget that there are other actors in the scene with him.
That’s how good he was for me.
Dr. Zhivago is another.

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I agree - Steiger is that insanely good. In a weird way, he is the glue in Doctor Zhivago.

 

• Aug 28, 2017

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There are sometimes operators, but it's a subtle shift from "How may I connect your call" vs. "How may I direct your call?"

 

• Aug 28, 2017

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Ballyhoo

Great word - hardly ever hear it anymore.

As happens 90% of the time, it just popped out of my head as I was posting on another thread and thought, that's one you don't hear much at all now.

 

• Aug 28, 2017

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Possibly noted earlier, but just in case -

Ruckus. Tom foolery. Shenanigans. Skullduggery. Hijinks.

These came up the other day in a discussion.

 

• Aug 28, 2017

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I always did wonder whether people from Missouri were more skeptical and whether it still holds up today.

 

• Aug 29, 2017

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I always did wonder whether people from Missouri were more skeptical and whether it still holds up today.

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I'll suspend judgement on that for the time being.

 

• Aug 29, 2017

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• Aug 29, 2017

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Fading Fast said:

Ballyhoo

Great word - hardly ever hear it anymore.

As happens 90% of the time, it just popped out of my head as I was posting on another thread and thought, that's one you don't hear much at all now.

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"Ballyhoo" was the most popular humor magazine of the 1930s, combining smeary sex jokes with deep-cutting satires of advertising and popular culture.

 

• Aug 29, 2017

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LizzieMaine said:

"Ballyhoo" was the most popular humor magazine of the 1930s, combining smeary sex jokes with deep-cutting satires of advertising and popular culture.

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That might vaguely ring a bell. Sounds like an early version of Mad magazine combined with a tamer Playboy - yes / no?

 

• Aug 29, 2017

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Similar, but more cartoon-oriented. Their fake ads were much more brutal than Mad's ever were.

The editor of Ballyhoo, a fellow by the name of Norman Anthony, was one of the biggest names in humor in the 1920s and early 1930s -- he'd been the editor of Judge, which he turned into the snappiest humor sheet of the twenties by hiring people like S. J. Perelman, Jefferson Machamer, and Dr. Seuss, and when Dell Publishing lured him over to start Ballyhoo it was hot news for comedy fans. Anthony rode the success of Ballyhoo magazine all the way to Broadway, creating a stage revue called "Ballyhoo of 1932" which featured Bob Hope in one of his first starring roles, and song lyrics by Yip Harburg.

Anthony remained influential until the end of the thirties, when Ballyhoo folded, and he dropped completely off the map. But a lot of the people who created "Mad" in the 1950s grew up reading his work -- and his influence is clearly evident in theirs.

 

• Aug 29, 2017

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⇧ everything has antecedents that go back further than one thinks.

 

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• Aug 29, 2017

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My grandpa always used the term "Well, I'll be jiggered", when something had him stumped.

I occasionally use that and people just looooooook at me...

 

• Aug 30, 2017

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MisterCairo said:

Possibly noted earlier, but just in case -

Ruckus. Tom foolery. Shenanigans. Skullduggery. Hijinks.

These came up the other day in a discussion.

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Along with "Shenanigans", other words from the period when recent Irish immigrants were the disfavored minority: hooligan, malarkey, paddy wagon. Any others come to mind?

 

• Aug 30, 2017

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"ya dorrrrrty spalpeen!"