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Post by Lucky Dan on Feb 21, 2023 0:08:19 GMT
Do kids today associate that with Michael Jackson? I think he has other associations now, assuming anyone in their 20s knows anything at all about him. |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Feb 21, 2023 9:36:01 GMT
Ha! I tend to view anyone younger than about 45 as a "kid"! I don't mean it in a derogatory way at all. I was a kid once myself! |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 21, 2023 17:29:37 GMT
As my firstborn is now 50 years of age, those who I consider as "kids" are of a higher age than 45. And I was a kid at least TWO or more times, as my wife always insisted I was in my second childhood back when I was in my 40's.  But I would tell her that was an impossibility since I haven't really left my first one yet.  Sepiatone |
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Post by topbilled on Feb 22, 2023 6:46:52 GMT
More from SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE (1935)...
Walter Brennan's character tells Gene Raymond at the beginning, he will show him how to get to Baldpate: "I can show you in two shakes of a lamb's tail. It's only a stone's throw from here."
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 22, 2023 7:40:02 GMT
A few great ones from some RKO pre-code romances....
pink tease
the old 10 20 30
primrose path
going on a pip
I don't recall hearing anyone using them in regular chitter chatter.
Maybe I'll start sprinkling them about in conversations and see what kind of looks I get.
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Post by kims on Feb 22, 2023 15:25:15 GMT
What's the old 10 20 30?
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 22, 2023 16:35:52 GMT
It's only a stone's throw from here."
Heh! I STILL use 'A stone's throw." Sepiatone |
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Post by topbilled on Feb 24, 2023 4:02:09 GMT
At the 37 minute mark in SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE, a gunman hears Gene Raymond approaching and says:
"If he sticks his melon out that door, I'll plug him."
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 24, 2023 4:12:58 GMT
A bit of a dig meaning low quality or common...I think!? Touring theatrical companies on the kerosene circuit lowered their prices in the 1880s to 10 20 30 cents. As such certain repertory companies became known as low-priced, or popular-priced, companies looked down upon by proper actors. |
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Post by sepiatone on Feb 24, 2023 17:22:05 GMT
Remember the old adage: "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"? And how it was shortened for effect in I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG to point out Allan's workaholic motives....
"All work and no play makes JACK!" "Jack" being the slang of the times for money.
Sepiatone
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Feb 24, 2023 21:22:57 GMT
Oh, I might have known something
like this would have happened.
Ain't it awful? It just makes me sick.
Mo, it's lousy. Let's ankle out of here.
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Post by kims on Mar 11, 2023 1:55:10 GMT
Two films I watched today "it's a honey" STRIKE UP THE BAND it was said about a guitar. In BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY SOXER it was used about a car. I laughed both times. I have to try it out on friends for their reaction.
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 11, 2023 16:58:14 GMT
Two films I watched today "it's a honey" STRIKE UP THE BAND it was said about a guitar. In BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY SOXER it was used about a car. I laughed both times. I have to try it out on friends for their reaction. Actually, I've used that word to describe certain things and even people. And on a MATLOCK rerun not too long ago, guest star DAVID CARRADINE, playing a famous country singer that Ben idolized, used the word to describe Ben's own guitar. "She's a honey." Sepiatone |
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Post by Fading Fast on Mar 22, 2023 11:50:50 GMT
Toot meaning being on an alcoholic bender.
You hear it from time to time in old movies and, from memory, I'm pretty sure Ray Milland's landlady in "The Lost Weekend" notes at some point that "Mr. Birnam" was "on a toot."
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Post by jamesjazzguitar on Mar 22, 2023 19:07:24 GMT
Two films I watched today "it's a honey" STRIKE UP THE BAND it was said about a guitar. In BACHELOR AND THE BOBBY SOXER it was used about a car. I laughed both times. I have to try it out on friends for their reaction. Actually, I've used that word to describe certain things and even people. And on a MATLOCK rerun not too long ago, guest star DAVID CARRADINE, playing a famous country singer that Ben idolized, used the word to describe Ben's own guitar. "She's a honey." Sepiatone I wonder if the term "She's a honey" for a guitar originated based on blonde colored guitars. |
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