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I have to ask- my Grampy used to say "bushwa" all the time. A polite way of saying bull****. Anyone else ever heard it? This was in Maine. I say it all the time, but it's possible he made the word up.
I've never heard "bushwa" before but we used to do what we called "bushwhacking". A gang of us--one with a car and the others along for the fun--would drive around looking for cars parked in out of the way places where other teenagers were hiding out to smooch in private. We would drive up slowly to the parked car, turn on the lights and honk the horn. We disturbed many a young couple that had sneaked off to do some smooching in private.
"payola" - a bribe; specifically taking money to play certain songs on the radio. There was a scandal many decades ago that involved record companies giving bribes to disk jockeys to play certain newly released recordings.
MightyQueen, It was Merthiolate that smelled bad. The other one didn't smell at all. When I was little and my Grandma used to visit, she'd tuck me in at night and say,Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite!" I still say, As The Crow Flies for a straight distance between two points.
In the first half of the 20th century and on into the 50's, motels were, as often as not, a tiny, one-room cabin with a bed and a bathroom. They were frequently called "tourist courts". When I traveled cross-country with my parents in those years, we stayed in many of them. On into the 60's, motels became more comfortable and spacious in their accommodations. In the early years of the 20th century, when people made a cross-country auto trip, they often camped out along the roads in tents and cooked their dinners over a campfire.
my grandmother would use the phrase "this, that and who shot john" meaning to gossip. she would also say years as "that was 19 AND 26" instead of simply saying 1926, instead of a craving she would have a hankerin' a "yonder" was a distance and people weren't crazy they were "touched" pronounced techt (as in "don't bother that old woman down the up/down yonder she's a bit techt.")
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