[Magdalen] Fwd: LOST WORDS

[Lynn Ronkainen]

LOL.... a friend of mine who became a dad in his late 40s  is constantly 
talking to his away-at-college son about 'co-eds'..... I keep reminding him 
that that word has probably gone the way of the words listed below!!

Lynn

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When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have not a 
single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck
 "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a talk 
by Richard Rohr

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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 12:28 PM
To: "Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: [Magdalen] Fwd: LOST WORDS

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> I thought this was fun. Unfortunately, the formatting got lost, so it's 
> pretty run-on, but the content is clear.
> I'd actually forgotten a lot of these...
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>>> DO YOU REMEMBER?????
>>> THE LOST WORDS OF OUR YOUTH
>>> Heavens to Murgatroyd!
>>> Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word 
>>> murgatroyd? Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the 
>>> buggy whip! Sad really!
>>> The other day a not so elderly (65) (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?
>>> OMG (new) phrase! He never heard of the word jalopy!!
>>> She knew she was old but not that old.
>>> 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."
>>> Back in the olden days we had a lot of moxie.
>>> We'd put on our best bib and tucker to straighten up and fly right.
>>> Heavens to Betsy!
>>> Gee whillikers!
>>> Clean as a whistle!
>>> 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.; of spats, 
>>> knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes and pedal pushers. Oh, my 
>>> aching back. My lumbago is acting up, Kilroy was here, but he isn't 
>>> anymore.
>>> We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can 
>>> say, well I'll be a monkey's 
>>> uncle! Or, This is a fine kettle of fish! We discover that the words we 
>>> grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have 
>>> vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our 
>>> keyboards,even Rip Vanvickle.
>>> Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind We blink, 
>>> and they're gone. Where have all those phrases gone? Exit stage left
>>> 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.
>>> It turns out there are more of these 
>>> lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be 
>>> disturbing stuff!
>>> 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.
>>> See ya later, alligator!
>>> Amazing how many we had that are now gone!!
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