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BaftaBaby 
"Always entranced by cinema."
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 Posted - 04/22/2008 : 08:55:13
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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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Beanmimo 
"August review site"
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 10:58:38
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Ah - Your father's mustache!
Never heard that one before...is it rude? |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 11:09:34
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Originally posted by Beanmimo
Ah - Your father's mustache!
Never heard that one before...is it rude?
Not really rude - and the 'ah' is pronounced sort of between ah and eh not as in ahhh. It was said to dismiss someone or something they'd said. I guess it was the inheritor to: "that's a lot of banana oil" - popular in the 1920/30s but almost never heard by the time I was a kid.
A. When I grow up I'm going to fly helicopters!
B. Ah - your father's mustache!
A. I can drink the whole bottle in one go.
B. Ah - your father's mustache!
Kinda thing. 
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 12:34:32
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See you in the funnies.
Don't take any wooden nickles. |
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ChocolateLady 
"500 Chocolate Delights"
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 13:11:23
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How about:
Trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 14:09:38
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Originally posted by ChocolateLady
How about:
Trying to teach your grandmother to suck eggs!
You said a mouthful! |
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Whippersnapper. 
"A fourword thinking guy."
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 14:11:02
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There's plenty more fish in the sea.
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benj clews 
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 14:33:26
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Gee willickers!
(Not that I ever heard this as a child- I just wish I had!) |
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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 15:43:00
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
quote:
Originally posted by Beanmimo
Ah - Your father's mustache!
Never heard that one before...is it rude?
Not really rude - and the 'ah' is pronounced sort of between ah and eh not as in ahhh. It was said to dismiss someone or something they'd said. I guess it was the inheritor to: "that's a lot of banana oil" - popular in the 1920/30s but almost never heard by the time I was a kid.
A. When I grow up I'm going to fly helicopters!
B. Ah - your father's mustache!
A. I can drink the whole bottle in one go.
B. Ah - your father's mustache!
Kinda thing.
Sounds a bit like "Itchy beard" or "Itchy chin", often reduced to just an action, which was said/done a lot when I was young in response to any claim deemed untrue, but I haven't heard it much lately. Maybe the action is still used somewhat. |
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turrell 
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 15:57:04
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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. |
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lemmycaution
"Long mired in film"
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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. |
Edited by - lemmycaution on 04/22/2008 16:07:41 |
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BaftaBaby
"Always entranced by cinema."
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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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randall
"I like to watch."
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Posted - 04/22/2008 : 22:46:25
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"Why, I'd..."
"23 skiddoo!" |
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duh
"catpurrs"
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Posted - 04/24/2008 : 02:20:21
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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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Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
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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! |
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turrell
"Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh Ohhhh "
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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). |
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Fading Away
