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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 08:55:13
Whatever age you are, I bet you're aware of some phrases that you/others always said and heard in common speech when you were younger. And now ... they seem to have faded away.
Here are some I remember - they seem to be especially but not exclusively insults 
Like it or lump it!
Ah - Your father's mustache!
You'd better, or else!
Yoo-hoo!
Hey bub!
Any more?
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 04/25/2008 : 10:42:00
A couple I haven't heard in a while:
What the Sam Hill?!! [which I guess evolved after some people didn't want to say 'hell']
You bet your bippy! [which swept the nation after Rowan and Martin said it every week on Laugh In]
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| bife |
Posted - 04/25/2008 : 10:27:41
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Originally posted by Salopian
I would hope so -- you've got about ten children, haven't you?! 
Not quite, but it does feel that way sometimes ... |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 12:31:48
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Originally posted by bife
I am not going to dispute it, wikipedia is probably more reliable than an 11 year-old's memory 20+ years later, but I only remember Joey and his friend, not a team of four.
I've read about the foursome before, on another website (although it could be the sole source of the article -- I haven't checked). Probably just two went on Blue Peter.
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And I must be a couple of years older than you Sal
I would hope so -- you've got about ten children, haven't you?! |
| bife |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 12:15:09
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Originally posted by Salopian
The story of Joey's autobiography is quite charming -- one friend could understand Joey's speech and relayed it to another who wrote it down, for a fourth who could not previously read or write to type out. Makes The Diving Bell and the Butterfly seem efficient!
I am not going to dispute it, wikipedia is probably more reliable than an 11 year-old's memory 20+ years later, but I only remember Joey and his friend, not a team of four.
And I must be a couple of years older than you Sal, I do remember joey and his friend from Blue Peter, and although 'Joey' could be used for a minor infraction, to really knock someone down you had to use the full name. Shocking really, looking back, how widespread and unchecked the usage was |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 10:43:52
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
"You're welcome" is fast disappearing.
I love using this in contexts where people have failed to say Thank you, though.   |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 10:42:10
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Originally posted by bife
Very politically incorrect, but pretty sure anybody growing up in the UK in the 80's will remember the phrase "My name's Joey Deacon" said with tongue between bottom lip and teeth in response to anything really dumb said by a classmate.
I don't remember his name being used in full, but someone being termed a joey was widespread -- and I think still is. I did not actually know until a few years ago that it was based on someone called Joey, as his fame via Blue Peter had passed me by, and assumed that it referred to a gangly baby kangaroo. The story of Joey's autobiography is quite charming -- one friend could understand Joey's speech and relayed it to another who wrote it down, for a fourth who could not previously read or write to type out. Makes The Diving Bell and the Butterfly seem efficient!
Even now, I have to stop myself from doing the tongue-behind-the-lower-lip thing, as it became so ingrained as a child before I realised that it was aping a disability. |
| bife |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 09:08:47
Very politically incorrect, but pretty sure anybody growing up in the UK in the 80's will remember the phrase "My name's Joey Deacon" said with tongue between bottom lip and teeth in response to anything really dumb said by a classmate.
And sal, I'd forgotten all about "Itchy chin", abreviated later on to just 'chinny' or as you say, just the action of stroking your chin, making it very clear that you don't believe one word being said. I also remember this being adapted into "chinny rec on", but i never really understood if that was meant to be rude, or was merely a contraction of 'chinny reckon'. Ah well, the mysteries of teenage language, never clear even as a teenager. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 08:55:33
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Originally posted by turrell
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by duh
What about them apples.
I never understood what he was going on about in Good Will Hunting. I asked here once, and was not much the wiser. It doesn't seem to mean a great deal!
It pretty much means"How you like me now?" or "What do you think about that" (knowing I just blew your mind).
What he said 
Ref
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The correct form is "How do you like them apples?" The phrase is cousin to "Put that in your pipe and smoke it!", and to "How about THAT?" (as opposed to the rather modern slang expression, "How ABOUT that?"), and so "So there!", simple and enduring.
Which reminds me ... "put that in your pipe and smoke it" can be added to our list 
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| MisterBadIdea |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 06:42:03
"You're welcome" is fast disappearing. |
| turrell |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 06:35:39
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Originally posted by Salopian
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Originally posted by duh
What about them apples.
I never understood what he was going on about in Good Will Hunting. I asked here once, and was not much the wiser. It doesn't seem to mean a great deal!
It pretty much means"How you like me now?" or "What do you think about that" (knowing I just blew your mind). |
| Sal[Au]pian |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 02:37:17
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Originally posted by duh
What about them apples.
I never understood what he was going on about in Good Will Hunting. I asked here once, and was not much the wiser. It doesn't seem to mean a great deal! |
| duh |
Posted - 04/24/2008 : 02:20:21
Oh my land.
What about them apples.
The heck you say?
He bought the farm.
He kicked the bucket.
He jewed them down. (Very racist, but was heard rather often from people who literally didn't know any better.)
Groovy
Your mother wears combat boots. (No longer an insult...and lots of mothers and grandmothers do.)
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| randall |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 22:46:25
"Why, I'd..."
"23 skiddoo!" |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 16:36:37
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Originally posted by turrell
I don't know if this one is fading away or just not really well known:
Hunker Down.
I have used it before and had to explain it and then it loses its momentum.
Oh, I've defintely heard it ... quite recently actually. Maybe it's kept its continuity here in the UK.
PS Lemmy, you are a VERY naughty boy. Now go hunker down in the corner until you learn to behave 
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| lemmycaution |
Posted - 04/22/2008 : 16:07:15
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Originally posted by turrell
I don't know if this one is fading away or just not really well known:
Hunker Down.
I have used it before and had to explain it and then it loses its momentum.
Sounds like a porn star. |
