Do You Use Any Old Fashioned Slang Or Phrases?

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  1. Hal Pollner

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    Aaaaaah, they're just a bunch of FlubDubs and MollyCoddles!

    Hal
     
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    Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncle
    Holy Smokes!!
     
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    I had a Scout Master back in the day who said jinkers when he got really upset with what the boys were doing.
     
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  4. Hal Pollner

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    "Plant you now, dig you later!"

    (1940s jive talk)

    H.P.
     
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    Mutton dressed up as lamb .……………..
    whenever we see some older women dressed up as a teenager..
     
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    Cool as a cucumber
    Crazy as a Bedbug
    Neat as a Pin
    Hot as a cat on a tin roof
     
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    That's "Hot as a cat on a HOT tin roof", young man.
     
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    Kangaroo is loose in the top paddock.. lost his/her mind.
     
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    trying to play cards with a deck of 51 …...................…… just a bit nuts
     
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    Any one know the meaning-----What era of talk is that?
     
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    I’m not for certain just what era that was popular but I’m thinking late 50’s, beatnik’s used it or during the sixties. It means, Do you understand or do you like it, depending on what’s being asked of you to “dig”. So, are you pickin’ up what I’m puttin’ down, Daddy-O? :)
     
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    Can you dig it, little buddy?
     
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    Maynard G Krebs, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis! Good call! :)
     
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    Funny you should put it that way. I had no idea of those rumors until I searched for that pic and started reading.

    Poor Bob Denver, from Dobie Gillis to shackin' with the Cap'n.

    edit to add: I misunderstood. I did not remember that to be the official title of the show. Oh, well.
     
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