The Wrath of Dawn
One of these days, Alice, to the moon!
Alice at Finslippy had a darned interesting post the other day, by golly. Go have a read, including the comments, if you can get through them all, and then come back and tell me what your favourite old-time word is. And don't be lollygagging. I'm very persnickety about my comments and I like 'em to come in thick and fast. Now, skedaddle, you whippersnappers. And git right back here sharpish like. Before I have a conniption.
Posted by WrathofDawn at 11:30 p.m.
11 Comments:
I'm a bit of a fan of Ahoy Hoy, which was Alexander Graham Bell's choice of greetings for use on his newly invented telephonic device.
Alas, it was lost to history as "Hello" took over.
Alas the link to Alice at Finslippy seems to be discombobulated...can be used as 'broken like' too...one of my favourite words to be going on with.
Whippersnapper is my favorite. I grew up saying 'press' (as in press one's clothes)instead of 'iron' because that's what my grandmother always says. Weird.
I like 'gumshoe', although I can't really think of any reason to use it.
Oh, and 'horseless carriage', which should perhaps be updated to 'horsepowerless carriage', at least when describing the Ricardimobile.
Ahoy hoy! Sorry the Finslippy link is discomboobulated. I'm just a whippersnapper who has some HTML issues to press out. Don't call a gumshoe. I'll just get my HTML guru buddy to come over in his horseless carriage, if that gin-soaked popinjay will show up.
But hysteria? Too modern for this granny.
I quite like "footpad"...oh, hang on, don't Scholl make them?
My Grandma used ask us if we would like "a egg boiled" with a short "a". I still say that now.
Along the lines of 'hysteria', I always liked diseases caused by 'bad vapours' and 'ill humours'. And of course, 'consumption' which used to be the term for TB.
All good. Not useful, but good.
I'd join you, but I have to go and have a hairdo in my new twinset.
Much more modern, me.
P.S. I'm back! Did you miss me?
I have two modern versions of the twinset and I plan to wear one when I get my hair done at the beauty parlour on Thursday.
She's back! She's back! *runs around room, flapping arms*
Miss you? Oh, maybe a little..
*resumes flapping*
Sorry, didn't make it to the end of her comments... I do like using a few old Portuguese expressions every now and then though. It usually makes people stop on their tracks.
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