Fifty Plus (50+) - Things no one says anymore...

I thought about posting this in Foo, or Jokes and humor. But, I realized that no one outside this group would get this. These are things no one says anymore, or that no one hears anymore. Add to the list if you like.


We will now be signing off.
Go hang the clothes on the line.

Jinx, or Jinks. Something said when two people say the same thing at the same time. The first to say "Jinks!" means the other has to buy them a coke.

Go outside and play.
She's flooded. Wait a few minutes and try again.
Where's my slide rule?
Don't forget to tip the paperboy.
Leave a note for the milkman.
Turn on the TV and let it warm up.
Get out your think and do workbooks.
You will stay after school and clean the blackboard.
Today, we will practice our penmanship.
Make it fast, it's long distance!
A tube must have burned out.
Look it up in the encyclopedia.
Leave a note for the milkman.
No, I don't have a quarter so you can go to the movies. Do you think I'm made of money?
Clean your plate, there are kids in India who are starving.
You come in when the street light comes on.
Don't bother daddy. He has to read the paper.

Pinkie Swear. two people, usually young females, locking pinkie fingers, and swearing silence over a shared secret.

Random sounds:
Rotary dial telephone.

The national anthem, being played when a local TV station ceased broadcasting for the day. This usually happened after 1 AM.

Weekly tests of air raid horns and/or sirens. In my area, it was Friday at twelve noon.

That's a rather long list; you must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.

Jeepers.

Keep a dime handy for the pay phone

Pull the choke or the car won't start.

Get a good job after high school

"Don't go out after dusk as that's when the T-Rex is most active."

Is there a pay phone in here.
Yeah, the phone booth is in back.

We had an air raid drill in school today.
(When I was younger, saturday 12 noon was when the sirens where tested.)
The movie theaters had a double feature.

"Check your oil, sir?"

What do you mean my points are worn out?
Where do you stock the typewriter ribbons?
Driving a Ford Falcon=> ease up on the gas so the wipers will go faster
Driving an old Plymouth: Push that button there for reverse
Three on the tree
Four on the floor
Open the vent window just a bit
What's on the flip side of that record?
Man - I hate when it changes tracks in the middle of a song

"I bring over my record player and my 45s."

"I just got a job as a key punch operator!"

"I bought it with S & H Green stamps."

Weekly tests of air raid horns and/or sirens. In my area, it was Friday at twelve noon.

They still do that here. It's on the first Monday of every month at 9:00 AM only today we call them tornado sirens.

My new cassette deck has Dolby B Noise Reduction. I can record all my LP's and listen to them on my car's cassette player. Cool!

Will that be cash or cheque?

"I bring over my record player and my 45s."

"I just got a job as a key punch operator!"

"I bought it with S & H Green stamps."

We still have a folding picnic table & benches that my Mother bought with Green stamps!

Will that be cash or cheque?
:lol:Good one!
I was in banking in the early 80's and went to a seminar where the speaker explained how one day soon, we would all be scanning something like a credit card for all our cash transactions and I remember thinking, "Now that's just crazy talk!":lol:

"Please Stand By"

My computer has 64K of memory and two floppy drives

My car has a four barrel carb

Gas is 49.9 cents a gallon

" My TV went dead so I tested the rectifier tube at the drugstore. Luckily for me, there's a drugstore nearby that stays open on Sundays. The tube checker indicated the 5U4 was bad so I bought a new one for two bucks and had the set playing in less than an hour. Just in time for 'Bonanza'".

I'm waiting for the black & white TV to warm up.

Rabbit ear antennas

UHF and VHF

"Check your oil, sir?"
Sorry, I actually heard that today at the service station. Along with "would you like your windsheld cleaned?". But then, I patronize one of the two remaining full service stations in town. Both of whom also have a 'mechanic on duty'. :thumb:

"Number please..."

"Thump" (the sound the pneumatic tube made at the cashiers desk at the department store when you used your "Charge Plate")

"This car going up."

"3rd floor..... Menswear, Shoes, Leather Goods. Watch your step please."

"Tag! You're it!!"

"Spud!"

Cleaning out our spare room the other day, I came across my old Olivetti typewriter, absolutely state of the art for roving reporters about 30-35 years ago. I carried it all over for years, typing my stories in bars and the backs of cabs. The ribbon was dried out, but I hammered out a few paragraphs. Hadn't heard that ding-zip since probably the Carter administration.
Weird note: In the precomputer days, we used to move stories by taking them to an airport, going out to the gates and finding a flight going to the right place. We'd give the envelope to a stewardess (sorry, flight attendant) and tell her somebody would meet her at arrival and give her $10. Then we'd phone the office, tell them a name and flight number, and somebody would meet the plane. They'd put you in jail for trying that now.

Telegram. Telex. Cable.

Please. Thank you. Sorry with meaning.


Cottered cranks. Rod actuated brake.

Night cart.

Play Kick-the-Can and say,
"Oh-Lee-Oh-Lee-incomefree!"

Weird note: In the precomputer days, we used to move stories by taking them to an airport, going out to the gates and finding a flight going to the right place. We'd give the envelope to a stewardess (sorry, flight attendant) and tell her somebody would meet her at arrival and give her $10. Then we'd phone the office, tell them a name and flight number, and somebody would meet the plane. They'd put you in jail for trying that now.

Interesting piece of media history Velo Dog.

"Red rover, red rover, send trackhub right over!"
(Red rover, and Tag have been banned by the schools in my town)

But kids in NJ are hearing a new one: "Lock-Down Drills" , in case of an intruder in the building. "Code Red" will be announced over the PA system. The teacher locks the classroom door, turns off all lights, closes the blinds, and covers the door window with paper.The students sit in a corner or along a wall farthest away from the outside windows, The police roam the halls knocking on doors, and the teachers ask for the password. Then "Code Red" is over.

We used to crawl under our desks for Air Raid drills.

Where's my sock darning basket?

Those were new pants! Well, we'll just put a patch on the knee.

No, you can't have a raise in your allowance.

It's your turn to rake down the furnace and take the ashes out.

No, you don't need a ten speed bike. You can only go one speed at a time.

Just who do you think you are mister? You're getting too big for your britches.

Rinse out the bath tub when you're done using it.

If you want it washed, put it in the laundry hamper.

Why would I lock the front door? I'm only going down to the corner store?

(Any time my hair was long enough that it touched my ears): Time for a haircut; you're starting to look like a girl.

You will go to church young man, and you will like it.

Yes, I know how to spell ______. Now you go get the dictionary and learn how to spell it too.

Here's 50 cents. Go get a loaf of bread and a quart of milk.

Close to Christmas time: Did the new Sears catalogue come yet?

After helping to change oil in the car: Just go pour it out behind the shed.

Will you please take this trash out and burn it?

I can't make the call right now. There's someone else on the line.

Does anyone have a penny for the parking meter?

Wash your windshield, sir?

A raido announcer reading the entire local newspaper over the air.

A nickel to play the pinball machine
I grew up in South Philadelphia and we had guys deliver bread and milk to the door. The vegetable guy came around everyday with his horse and wagon, there were even guys who came around once in a while in a push cart to fix your umbrella or sharpen your knives.

Not a phrase, but how many still wait for the click of an 8 track changing in some of their favorite old songs?

Let's go down to the shoe store and get your feet fluoroscoped (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope)!

Son, get up and change the channel; Cronkite is coming on.

This is incredible. Some of you must be as old as I am.

"Dial the number", or even, "call me".

Weekly tests of air raid horns and/or sirens. In my area, it was Friday at twelve noon.

That still happens here, albeit once a month. But they are tornado sirens.

They still do that here. It's on the first Monday of every month at 9:00 AM only today we call them tornado sirens.

Oops... I should have read the whole thread! :D

If you make a face, it's gonna stick like that.

I remember pushing my son in a stroller through graduate student housing in the mid '80s. It was near the end of the semester and you could hear typewriters banging out papers from all directions. I mentioned to my wife that when he grew up, our son would probably not recognize the sound of a typewriter, and she told me that I was crazy.

-- You kids pipe down. Don't make me come back there.
-- Go outside and cut me a switch.
-- When I was your age .....

I remember my uncle, who was a "traveling salesman", would give me a silver dollar (real silver) every year when he came to visit. Wish I had kept them all. :rolleyes:

Said Farmer Jones
Who's Bald On Top
I Wish I Could
Rotate The Crop
Burma Shave

I thought about posting this in Foo, or Jokes and humor. But, I realized that no one outside this group would get this. These are things no one says anymore, or that no one hears anymore. Add to the list if you like.


We will now be signing off.
Go hang the clothes on the line.

Jinx, or Jinks. Something said when two people say the same thing at the same time. The first to say "Jinks!" means the other has to buy them a coke.

Go outside and play.
She's flooded. Wait a few minutes and try again.
Where's my slide rule?
Don't forget to tip the paperboy.
Leave a note for the milkman.
Turn on the TV and let it warm up.
Get out your think and do workbooks.
You will stay after school and clean the blackboard.
Today, we will practice our penmanship.
Make it fast, it's long distance!
A tube must have burned out.
Look it up in the encyclopedia.
Leave a note for the milkman.
No, I don't have a quarter so you can go to the movies. Do you think I'm made of money?
Clean your plate, there are kids in India who are starving.
You come in when the street light comes on.
Don't bother daddy. He has to read the paper.

Pinkie Swear. two people, usually young females, locking pinkie fingers, and swearing silence over a shared secret.

Random sounds:
Rotary dial telephone.

The national anthem, being played when a local TV station ceased broadcasting for the day. This usually happened after 1 AM.

Weekly tests of air raid horns and/or sirens. In my area, it was Friday at twelve noon.
Looks like you had a "senior moment". ;)

Getting an a$$ whoopin' without the police being involved. My father was never afraid of me.

They still do that here. It's on the first Monday of every month at 9:00 AM only today we call them tornado sirens.

Ditto!

Heeeeeeeeere's JOHNNY!

How about thank you instead of "uhuh"

"Red rover, red rover, send trackhub right over!"
(Red rover, and Tag have been banned by the schools in my town)

But kids in NJ are hearing a new one: "Lock-Down Drills" , in case of an intruder in the building. "Code Red" will be announced over the PA system. The teacher locks the classroom door, turns off all lights, closes the blinds, and covers the door window with paper.The students sit in a corner or along a wall farthest away from the outside windows, The police roam the halls knocking on doors, and the teachers ask for the password. Then "Code Red" is over.

We used to crawl under our desks for Air Raid drills.

I'm not surprised that Red Rover and Tag have been banned. I've read that Dodge Ball has been banned in some school districts around the country.

"Lock-Down Drills".... Definitely a different place then when I grew up.

Here's one: "Let's sit in the balcony!" I suspect that there are very few, if any, movie theaters left have balcony seating. I think the last movie I saw while sitting in a balcony was "Where Eagles Dare". That was at the old Waltham, MA Embassy theater.

And yes, RonH, I did have a senior moment. There will be others....

That stuff from Japan is all just cheap, low-quality knockoffs.

Can you adjust the rabbit ears so the channel will come in clearer?

Just spray the yard with DDT and the mosquitos will be gone in no time.

"Smoking or non smoking" at a restaurant. "Catch you on the flip side." "Don't make me come over there!" "Don't jiggle those keys you'll change the channel." "Keep it floored to start it."

"You can always spot an engineering student... He'll be the one with a slip stick on his hip."

Those old Burma Shave signs on fence posts were fun. Someone ought to bring them back.

Party line on the telephone.

Rubber checks. (good story: stopped one Sunday noon to gas up -- full-service gas station, another good one! -- and Mom was pre-writing the check for the gas. My brother looked at her for a moment, and said, "Isn't it hard to write on rubber?" *Mom never bounced a check in her life.*)

The 'corner mailbox'.