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Post by galacticgirrrl on Jan 29, 2023 2:33:12 GMT
Not much out there these days on the 'ole wooden nickels. I had no idea I was THAT old: During the Great Depression, the United States mintage experienced a decline in nickel-made coins, which caused issues at the bank’s end. However, the banks had a smart answer: printing currency on circular wooden pieces.
With the help of banks and newspapers, the local Chamber of Commerce regulated a provisional certificate of money that defined an individual’s ownership and possession of an item (scrip). Shingles of wood were used to put the Chamber’s ideas into practice.
Therefore, prominent banks in the States, including Blaine Washington and Tenino, started labeling currency values on pieces of wood, which were similar in shape and size to that of the already-circulating nickel coins – hence, the term “wooden nickels.” Other banks followed in pursuit of the smart (and relatively cheap) idea used by the banks based in Washington and Tenino.Also called Clams to loop back to the disappearing idioms...  |
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Post by Lucky Dan on Jan 29, 2023 4:37:52 GMT
Me, too, Diane. Just the other day, I got laughed at for saying, "Let's get a pizza pie." Smart alecks. 
Robert Reich wrote a column in the last several months about working with younger people, assumably fresh out of college, who laugh at him when he uses certain words. He gave as an example something he says during meetings, "Brilliant!" (If you know who Reich is you might suspect as I do that they're not laughing at the word, but at how he says it.)
But yeah. These kids today. I tell you what. |
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 29, 2023 17:49:36 GMT
But yeah. These kids today. I tell you what.So go ahead. Tell us. Or, in other words.... "Spill the beans." Sepiatone |
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Post by sepiatone on Jan 30, 2023 16:26:45 GMT
Y'know, one bit o' slang from the '60's that thankfully is long gone from the lexicon is "Groovy". So imagine my surprise when, in the '90's and looking at some of the extra footage included in my VHS copy of "Miracle On 34th Street" I saw THIS trailer! And I know y'all know what I'm talkin' about. Sepiatone |
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Post by MacGuffin on Jan 30, 2023 16:49:15 GMT
One turn of phrase that I hear once in a while in classic movies is "Don't let's...".
You might say "Don't let's quarrel" or "Don't let's start all that again".
It always sounded a little awkward to me, which may be the reason its use died out.
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Post by Fading Fast on Jan 30, 2023 16:56:39 GMT
"Such a much," as in, that girl isn't "such a much" to look at. I've only heard it a few times in old movies, but it is quite effective.
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Post by lydecker on Feb 2, 2023 3:08:29 GMT
One of my favorites is "high hatting someone" as in (in The Thin Man) "I didn't want him to think I was high hatting him" -- in other words, I didn't want him to think I had become too "high hat" (or snobby) --
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 2, 2023 6:50:56 GMT
Good eggs....
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Good people
There was often a great interest in someone's background, from whence they came...did they come from good people.
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 2, 2023 15:59:53 GMT
And when was the last time(or even only time) in real life did you ever hear somebody called a "heel"?
Sepiatone
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Post by yanceycravat on Feb 2, 2023 18:16:29 GMT
When was the last time anyone heard, "Reach for the sky you ornery sidewinders."?
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 2, 2023 18:22:30 GMT
When was the last time anyone heard, "Reach for the sky you ornery sidewinders."? |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Feb 2, 2023 19:37:53 GMT
My brother used to like to push me down so he could say, "Get up, get up you scum suckin' pig."
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Post by topbilled on Feb 3, 2023 0:07:42 GMT
When was the last time anyone heard, "Reach for the sky you ornery sidewinders."?
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In a lot of old movies, they call a crook a 'low down dirty chiseler.' |
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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 3, 2023 3:17:31 GMT
My brother used to like to push me down so he could say, "Get up, get up you scum suckin' pig."
Your brother sounds fun in a kind of messed up way. (I think I've written that sentence before. Did you mention him on the old boards?)
And beginning a sentence with "Why" when you're not asking a question, but answering one.
"Is your brother crazy?"
"Why yes. Yes he is. Are you?"
"Why yes I, I believe I am." |
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Post by Andrea Doria on Feb 3, 2023 12:12:53 GMT
My brother used to like to push me down so he could say, "Get up, get up you scum suckin' pig."
Your brother sounds fun in a kind of messed up way. (I think I've written that sentence before. Did you mention him on the old boards?)
And beginning a sentence with "Why" when you're not asking a question, but answering one.
"Is your brother crazy?"
"Why yes. Yes he is. Are you?"
"Why yes I, I believe I am."
Making me scream was sort of a hobby of his. Once we watched scary movies until about midnight, when he said he was going upstairs to bed. About an hour later I went up. After I had turned out the light and was stepping into bed I felt a hand around my ankle. He got his blood curdling scream but he had waited an hour for it. |
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