words your grandparents used (meaning, speech, money, quote)

[Seagrape Grove]

Originally Posted by SeaOfGrass

I can remember exactly how that smelled! Didn't the bottle have a little pad or sponge applicator, too?

Off hand, the only bottles with sponge applicators I remember from mid-20th century are the liquid shoe polish bottles. I think tincture of iodine had a glass rod applicator.

[skippercollector]

I am the person who started this thread in 2011. I thought of another one yesterday.:
It behooves you...
It would behoove you to...
I think it means giving someone a suggestion.

[Lovehound]

You are to be behoven to having the perspicacity to start such an important topic at such an appropriate time!

Props to you!

"behoove: v. - "it is a duty or responsibility for someone to do something; it is incumbent on."

I cheat. Google is my friend.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by skippercollector

I am the person who started this thread in 2011. I thought of another one yesterday.:
It behooves you...
It would behoove you to...
I think it means giving someone a suggestion.

My mother says that. She is 88.

[Lovehound]

Then she understood the meaning of the word perfectly.

Now behoove yourself, go forth and multiply, so that you can be somebody's grandmother some day!

It behooves you!

[Seagrape Grove]

"Thinking cap" - The phrase is obsolete and the caps, themselves, are rare anymore.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Seagrape Grove

"Thinking cap" - The phrase is obsolete and the caps, themselves, are rare anymore.

I had a supervisor who used to say that to me all the time. Another coworker made a hat for me out of paper with a big light bulb on top.

[Copanut]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

I had a supervisor who used to say that to me all the time. Another coworker made a hat for me out of paper with a big light bulb on top.

Captain Kangaroo?

[tidaldream]

If an item didn't work anymore,

or a person was boring they would say:

"What a dud"

[Seagrape Grove]

Decades ago people who just didn't "fit in" were called "square".