Terms No Longer Used (but the things still exist)

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  • magichatter06
    magichatter06 Posts: 3,593 Member
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    Been awhile since I have heard this, but I think nowadays people just refer to it as a "Dresser" lol


    and I call a buggy a carriage...and I am pretty sure that I am the only one besides the people in my family. In CT, they had a sign that said "put your carriages here" meaning buggies and I was like boo yah! I am not weird haha:laugh:
  • CasperO
    CasperO Posts: 2,913 Member
    The greastest source of obsolete terms:

    Charles Montgomery Burns, Tycoon. Runs the Springfield nuclear power plant where Homer works. Smithers is his assistant. - Favorite Mr Burns Quotes

    I'm looking for something in an attack dog. One who likes the sweet gamey tang of human flesh. Hmmm, why here's the fellow ... Wiry, fast, firm, proud buttocks. Reminds me of me.

    Mr. Burns: So, Smithers, what are you doing this weekend. Something gay, I expect?
    Smithers: What?!!
    Mr. Burns: You know, light and fancy free! Mothers, lock up your daughters! Smithers is on the town!
    Smithers: Oh! Of course.


    Look at them, Smithers. Goldbrickers.... Layabouts.... Slug-a-beds! Little do they realise their days of suckling at my teat are numbered.

    Mr. Burns: This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
    Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.

    Ah, Monday morning. Time to pay for your two days of debauchery, you hungover drones.
  • Shannon023
    Shannon023 Posts: 14,529 Member
    I say tennis shoes, bathroom (although when I was growing up we had an outdoor bathroom or "outhouse"), flipflops, pop. And we eat breakfast, dinner and supper.

    When do you have lunch? :noway:
  • Magenta15
    Magenta15 Posts: 850 Member
    hmmmm I still say drug store, veranda, and stockings lol and I'm only 26

    one I never used but still hear sometimes is chesterfield...:ohwell: still a couch to me lol
  • FitToBeFab
    FitToBeFab Posts: 537 Member
    I say debauchery. Although I don't say drones.
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    I say tennis shoes, bathroom (although when I was growing up we had an outdoor bathroom or "outhouse"), flipflops, pop. And we eat breakfast, dinner and supper.

    When do you have lunch? :noway:

    I don't eat lunch. I'm trying to lose more weight. :bigsmile:
  • mommared53
    mommared53 Posts: 9,543 Member
    hmmmm I still say drug store, veranda, and stockings lol and I'm only 26

    one I never used but still hear sometimes is chesterfield...:ohwell: still a couch to me lol

    I thought Chesterfied was a brand of cigarettes. :huh: :bigsmile:
  • AwMyLoLo
    AwMyLoLo Posts: 1,571 Member
    The greastest source of obsolete terms:

    Charles Montgomery Burns, Tycoon. Runs the Springfield nuclear power plant where Homer works. Smithers is his assistant. - Favorite Mr Burns Quotes

    I'm looking for something in an attack dog. One who likes the sweet gamey tang of human flesh. Hmmm, why here's the fellow ... Wiry, fast, firm, proud buttocks. Reminds me of me.

    Mr. Burns: So, Smithers, what are you doing this weekend. Something gay, I expect?
    Smithers: What?!!
    Mr. Burns: You know, light and fancy free! Mothers, lock up your daughters! Smithers is on the town!
    Smithers: Oh! Of course.


    Look at them, Smithers. Goldbrickers.... Layabouts.... Slug-a-beds! Little do they realise their days of suckling at my teat are numbered.



    Mr. Burns: This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.
    Smithers: You are noble and poetic in defeat, sir.

    Ah, Monday morning. Time to pay for your two days of debauchery, you hungover drones.


    All these scenes just played in my head as I read your post! I think I will watch a few episodes from... season 3 this evening! Off topic but when I was a little kid, we would go to Captain D's every Thursday night because Kids Eat (ate) Free! Our family of 5 would eat for the price of my parents meals. We would go around 6:30, get our Blow Pops from the counter and leave by 7:15, get home, have our showers, and all be on the couch in time to watch The Simpsons. We would record every episode on the VCR (HA! I thought of a term no longer used!) and stop the recording during commercials. I watched the VHS tapes (another term of course) up until they started coming out with the seasons on DVD. ahh, memories... :tongue:
  • ilike2moveit
    ilike2moveit Posts: 776 Member
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    Been awhile since I have heard this, but I think nowadays people just refer to it as a "Dresser" lol


    and I call a buggy a carriage...and I am pretty sure that I am the only one besides the people in my family. In CT, they had a sign that said "put your carriages here" meaning buggies and I was like boo yah! I am not weird haha:laugh:
    That's a good one. Reminds me that my sister calls a shopping cart a buggy. :laugh:
  • lisawest
    lisawest Posts: 798 Member
    I LOVE calling them thongs out in public. TOTALLY embarrasses my sister! Here are a few from my mother:
    knickerbockers (known as capris or clam diggers now)
    clodhoppers (the wooden flip flop type shoes, I have NO idea what they are called now!)

    or from my grandmother:
    cattywampus (cattycorner, kitycorner) I got my husband with that one the other day

    I'm sure I thought of others as I was reading the posts, but I'm too tired to remember!
    Night all!
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    commode and lavatory

    Lavatory reminds me of Catholic school where we had to ask "May I use the lavatory?" :laugh:
  • weaklink109
    weaklink109 Posts: 2,831 Member
    hmmmm I still say drug store, veranda, and stockings lol and I'm only 26

    one I never used but still hear sometimes is chesterfield...:ohwell: still a couch to me lol

    Chesterfield is one I remember hearing amongst my Canadian (BC) relatives.
  • magichatter06
    magichatter06 Posts: 3,593 Member
    My mom when they young would call "capris"

    Pedal Pushers and Clam Diggers :tongue:
  • czewwhat
    czewwhat Posts: 8,715
    hankie's ( handkerchief)

    no one ever seems to use them any more, but they are out there.
  • AwMyLoLo
    AwMyLoLo Posts: 1,571 Member
    hankie's ( handkerchief)

    no one ever seems to use them any more, but they are out there.

    My pap paw always had a hankie. That was my "something old" on my wedding day was one of his hankies. :heart:
  • Phoenix_Rising
    Phoenix_Rising Posts: 11,417 Member
    My grandmother always called creams "salve".
  • CasperO
    CasperO Posts: 2,913 Member
    hankie's ( handkerchief)

    no one ever seems to use them any more, but they are out there.

    My grandfather called his hankie a "kerchief". We call 'em "snotrags" now, so who's the classier guy?

    He would also refer to something disparagingly by calling it "That devilish thing",,, but with his accent and long usage the phrase had degenerated into "hat davish-ed ting". I was 20 years old before I really understood what he was saying.
  • toots99
    toots99 Posts: 3,794 Member
    hmmmm I still say drug store, veranda, and stockings lol and I'm only 26

    one I never used but still hear sometimes is chesterfield...:ohwell: still a couch to me lol

    Chesterfield is one I remember hearing amongst my Canadian (BC) relatives.

    I heard "Chesterfield" and I immediately thought of the Barenaked Ladies song "If I Had A Million Dollars" where the line goes "Maybe a nice Chesterfield or an ottoman."
  • TheMaidOfAstolat
    TheMaidOfAstolat Posts: 3,222 Member
    hankie's ( handkerchief)

    no one ever seems to use them any more, but they are out there.

    My FIL still uses them. In fact I embroidered some for him for Christmas last year.
  • JoyousMaximus
    JoyousMaximus Posts: 9,285 Member
    My mom when they young would call "capris"

    Pedal Pushers and Clam Diggers :tongue:

    I still call them capris. Why add extra syllables when I don't have to?
  • Innerglow
    Innerglow Posts: 1,074 Member
    I LOVE calling them thongs out in public. TOTALLY embarrasses my sister! Here are a few from my mother:
    knickerbockers (known as capris or clam diggers now)
    clodhoppers (the wooden flip flop type shoes, I have NO idea what they are called now!)

    or from my grandmother:
    cattywampus (cattycorner, kitycorner) I got my husband with that one the other day

    I'm sure I thought of others as I was reading the posts, but I'm too tired to remember!
    Night all!

    oh i forgot about cattywampus my mom says that
    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • Cassia
    Cassia Posts: 467 Member
    sneakers...

    Ummm I saw department store too lol...

    ~Leash :heart:
    HAHAH!! I used this as my "main" word for running shoes, and all my friends make fun of me!! Lol i always just thought it was northern. (I live in the south, but my parents are from the north)
  • Cassia
    Cassia Posts: 467 Member
    How about "satchel" :noway: I was with some elderly ladies one day and they kept saying that! (drove me crazy actually lol)
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