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Click on the word-link below, to read a long list of terms from 100 years ago, that are referenced in the beloved Broadway musical play / movie "The Music Man"
Click on the word-link below, to read a long list of terms from 100 years ago, that are referenced in the beloved Broadway musical play / movie "The Music Man"
The person who started this thread categorized the list and posted it somewhere on a web site but I don't remember where. The link is several pages back.
"Cross." I was thinking about this today as I was pulling weeds in the vegetable garden, about how cross the weeds and the mosquitoes and the heat were making me, and how that word is not often heard these days. But it suited my mood perfectly! I'm going to start using it more often.
Not sure if my grandparents ever used it ... Mostly it was a word I read in old novels.
What's your name? Puddin Tain. Ask me again and I'll tell you the same.
or
What's your name? Puddin Tain. Where do you live? Down the drain. What's your number? Cucumber. What do you eat? Baby's feet.
It's Puddin Tain - someone who isn't royalty. Not tame
My grandmother used that - and she said things were the Cat's Meow, and she called us Darling, and when she was exasperated she said "Oh posh."
Thank you, AnonChick. My mother used to say that rhyme but I never saw it in print.
This is OT but she used to sing a song that went--"Playmate, won't you come and play with me, and bring your dollies three (or something)--------holler down my rain barrel, slide down my cellar door and we'll be jolly friends forever more."
(The next verse the friend's dolly had the FLU, boo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo.)
Okay, just some nostalgia that came along with Puddin Tain. Thanks again.
"Cross." I was thinking about this today as I was pulling weeds in the vegetable garden, about how cross the weeds and the mosquitoes and the heat were making me, and how that word is not often heard these days. But it suited my mood perfectly! I'm going to start using it more often.
Not sure if my grandparents ever used it ... Mostly it was a word I read in old novels.
Yes, I remember that being used a lot. What just popped up from the dim recesses of my memory is a story of a girl named Alice, who with her younger brother and sister was kidnapped by Indians in the early days of the country. Her brother and sister took to living with their new family, but Alice didn't like it there and wanted to go home. Her brother and sister name her "Two Sticks" because she is "as cross as two sticks".
Eventually her adopted mother gives up and brings her back to her house, but every year leaves her a gift of a new buckskin dress at the edge of the woods.
LOL, I remember that the story doesn't ever say what Alice's parents think of the fact that two of their other children never returned home.
My mom told me the next verse of that little song was " My dolly's got the flu, boo hoo boo hoo, ain't got no rain barrel, ain't got no cellar door, but we'll be jolly friends forevermore."
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