Terms Which Have Disappeared

[LizzieMaine]

That's New England National Dress.

 

[Nobert]

The approach of the first day of pitchers and catchers is quite literally the only thing that keeps us going thru the long New England winters. The day the equipment truck leaves Fenway Park for Florida in early February is actually a celebrated holiday. Truck Day is the only day in the year when everybody in New England is in a good mood.

Save for the many, many of us who simply do not give a frig.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Save for the many, many of us who simply do not give a frig.

Slow down, slow down, please! If you all will going further with speed, I can't keep pace with translation...

 

[vitanola]

What about tea dances? Anyone that goes to tea dances probably goes to luncheons, too,,,.

I don't know. I think that "T-dances" are still popular among some groups. Now, the "Thé Dansant" is perhaps lost to the mists of history.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Not hockey? Blasphemy!

Miss the old days when there were just the Six Teams (New York, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, and Boston). Now it seems as if 2/3 of the league is in the playoffs. At this point, the standings of the regular season become largely irrelevant.

 

[MisterCairo]

Miss the old days when there were just the Six Teams (New York, Montreal, Toronto, Detroit, Chicago, and Boston). Now it seems as if 2/3 of the league is in the playoffs. At this point, the standings of the regular season become largely irrelevant.

Go Habs!!!!

 

[MisterCairo]

Today I said to someone "you're driving me up the wall". They stopped dead in their tracks, having no idea what I meant.

 

[Stearmen]

Rat Fink!

 

[Trenchfriend]

Today I said to someone "you're driving me up the wall". They stopped dead in their tracks, having no idea what I meant.

"You're bringing me onto the palm-tree!"

German.

 

[Trenchfriend]

"Manchester-Hose"

Corduroy-trousers...

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

That's the ticket!

 

[Trenchfriend]

That's the ticket!

You mean this?
"That's just the ticket for me!"

 

[Trenchfriend]

Lost in translation...

I meaned "Alte Zimtzicke" (cinnamon-"priss")

 

[MisterCairo]

Skedaddle.

Traipse.

Whoops - a - daisy.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Sashay,
Diddy-bop

 

[Fading Fast]

Skedaddle.

Traipse.

Whoops - a - daisy.

Good ones, all three. Especially like "traipse," still use it, don't remember ever seeing it written out.

 

[skydog757]

Saints preserve us!

 

[Trenchfriend]

"Schnaps" (liqueur/booze/hard liquor).

German youth does not more say "Schnaps", today. Maybe sometimes "Schnapsladen" for a crappy etablissement, but I believe not, in 2016.

 

[Fading Fast]

"Schnaps" (liqueur/booze/hard liquor).

German youth does not more say "Schnaps", today. Maybe sometimes "Schnapsladen" for a crappy etablissement, but I believe not, in 2016.

I learned that word from Sargent Shultz on "Hogan's Heroes," he always wanted a little "schnaps," usually for letting the prisoners get away with something.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Schnapps is actually very popular around here with the kind of dopey kids who have no business drinking anything stronger than ginger ale.