words your grandparents used (quote)

[elston]

rathskelller.......a basement converted to a bar and play area very popular in the 70's.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by elston

rathskelller.......a basement converted to a bar and play area very popular in the 70's.

I remember a place called that.

[picklejuice]

I'm sure someone's grandparent used this phrase: DAB NAB IT!

[Jrsygrl51]

My grandmother used to call my uncle an "arse". She was born in Scotland.....

[elston]

my mother, who would be in her 90's, so she qualifies as a "grandparent" used to use t he term "a horse's petutie" to describe a real jerk.


she used the term "fey" to mean special and apart from the ordinary......I was her fey child.

[emilybh]

Originally Posted by Docendo discimus

"pocketbook" for "purse" or "bag"

Isn't "pocketbook" still used? I use it.

[emilybh]

Originally Posted by =Lavender=

My mom would call

a young boy SUNNY

pants SLACKS

Pullting make up on DOLLED UP

My Dad called

phone the HORN

bar the GIN MILL

The vacum THE HOOVER

A bag of taters A SACK of taters

TV was Boob Tube

Car was Ole Gelloppy

I think people know what you are talking about when you use most of these.

[emilybh]

Originally Posted by elston

Memorial Day.....was "Decoration Day"....because it was a day to go to the cemetery and clean and decorate the graves.....especially of veterans.

"gunny sack" was a burlap bag

"tarnation" I think it was a curse but not sure....like damnation

No "tarnation" was used usually with "in all of tarnation" as in all of the universe. I doubt it was a swear word.

[2cold]

My grandparents didn't speak English.

[Cunucu Beach]

My best friend's mother called it "the curse".

My mother just said, "I started." Everyone knew what she meant.