Any words or phrases from past generations you still love?

I’ve always loved the word Davenport for a couch. Also I love jeepers, golly and hella.

Oh, and I still call conditioner, “Creme Rinse”.

I still say “neato and cool” but then again I’ve always been a nerd.

thats tits.

“dig” and “doy”

“going steady”

@eponymoushipster – I loved doy too, but we spelled it doi.

@patg7590 – Good one, forgot about that one!

Calling someone a bad egg.
I still have a can-do attitude.
That joke he told was a corker.
She is his main squeeze.
You have got to be pulling my leg.

“Far out” and “awesome” :)

Gosh, golly gee whillikers! I guess so, Mrs Cleaver. Some of those old phrases are neato!

@GAMBIT – “Cool” has been cool since the late ‘30 at least. I think that one’s sticking around!

I say jeepers and hella sometimes. I like “rad” as well, though I use it very little as Southerners look at you rather strangely when you use such words.

Willy Nilly and Dag Nabbit, both of which remind me of my grandparents.

for shizzle

bitchin’, rad, righteous, stellar, sweet, cruisin’ for a bruisin’, get bent

@jeanna Please don’t ever say hella around me.

@boots I’m afraid that makes me want to do it more!

@jeanna Seriously. Few things piss me off and that’s one of them.

But to answer teh question, I say “dig”, “rad”, and “awesome“a lot.

As in, “I dig the rad awesomeness of this question.”

I do use awesome a lot, as well.

@boots – Thanks for the compliment on this question!! I’ll do my best not to say h**la too much around ya, but I cannot guarantee anything. :)

@forestGeek From living in the bay area, if only for 6 months, made me cringe at the sound of that word.

I’m sure I picked up using the word “hella” from my Cali friends. Oh well!

definitely west coast.

Groovy
Boss

I was trying to remember some from the 70’s, and it hit me…FOXY

Meanwhile, back at the ranch
Later, gater
Can you dig it?
Good night, John Boy
You know, like
Gag me with a spoon
Be there or be square
Bitchin’ (as in great not complaining)
copacetic
That’s hot

@galileogirl.: awesome I still use “anyways back at the ranch!” aswell.. Good one

I hope “Gag me with a spoon” never makes a comeback! :(

haha You just know, somewhere in The Valley, some teenage girl is totally using that phrase…

@jeanna Like Totally!

werd

JUMP BACK! <—Ren McCormick’s reaction to the ‘no dancing in town’ rule

NOBODY PUTS BABY IN THE CORNER.

and i just speak like a valley girl all the time. its not my fault. its where i live.

Thinking outside the box, I can only come up with “swell.”

I hate “growing a business”

I got a bunch of these from my parents and even my grandparents! I tell people that “if I had my druthers (fill in the blank).” I call my extremely messy closet a Fiber McGee. I call a big old sandwich a “Dagwood.” I say “goodnight Mrs. Kalabash wherever you are” and “say goodnight Gracie.”

From my own high school days I still find myself saying that I am “jazzed” about things, and I still use the word “totally” entirely too much.

HEY! Now you’re cookin’ with gas!

Heavens to Murgatroid, I’m not wearing Britches right now!

speaking of that, my grandpa used to wear those sock garters. I wonder if any guys still wear those?

@aprilsimnel What’s cookin’, good lookin’?

@galileogirl – Ha!

I finally got this one when I was 12: So round. So firm. So fully packed. So free and easy on the draw.

What, it’s a cigarette ad!

Egad!

This thread is swell.

We used to parodize some of our own sayings…“farm out!” “Outta state!” far out and out of sight

“killer” “bitchen” and “wicked” as in

This winter has been wicked cold, but spring is almost here.
Killer!
Yeah, today’s supposed to be bitchen with highs in the high 60s.
Killer!

wait, that sounds almost like Beavis and Butthead

@Yetanotheruser Loved it!

Where’s the beef?

that’s such a drag
Ha, ha, what a gas.

I was always fond of, “She’s a real Betty.”

“Up your nose with a rubber hose!”
“Get off my case, Toilet Face!”

“Well, I’ll swan . . .”
“Oh my lands . . .”
“sleeping porch”
“it’s in the ice box”

Back in the day
from the day of the flood
Groovy
Peace
You move as slow as molasses in the winter
What’s your sign?
Killjoy
Mishbukah Mishagas

I’m rather fond of nifty and keen.

I also like, “I’m as nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.”

And here are a few pleasantries: over yonder, fellows and youngsters.

Oh, I forgot to add “land a goshen” and “fiddlesticks” and “fiddle dee-dee.”

There’s two phrases the character of Pete Campbell from Mad Men uses that crack me up:

“Hell’s bells, Trudy!” (Trudy is Pete’s wife.)
“A thing like that!” (i.e., “You mean Don’s really an army deserter named Dick Whitman? A thing like that!”)

A few years ago my daughter and her friend dragged me outside to show off their latest accomplishment (a totally bitchen snowman, if I do say so), and I responded with a very enthusiastic “Radical” and they exploded into laughter..and now its a parodized joke in my house….sigh..I told them their treatment of me was quite bogus…I can still hear their giggless.

I have a friend who’s a relic of the “beat” era who calls me “Pops”! And this was some 30 years ago!