i'm a freak ow wow

[emchy]

so i found this cool website with all of this slang from the 1920s - omigod i am in love

http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm

so all you bearcats quit beatin your gums and lets ankle to the bar and get zozzled with the big cheese and gab about our beeswax and spend our berries before they give us the bums rush. we'll have to avoid that cake eatin gum chewer though.

 

heh

Comments

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

English is so incredibly rich in slang. It's one of the reasons I love Chandler and why "The Sweet Smell of Success" is my favorite movie. It also reveals people's racism when they react badly to POC youth upholding a fine American (working class) tradition.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yea - i have a total love affair with slang
the way language changes and evolves is part of what ties me to times and places...

hence my grip on pop and party store as essential parts of my history

on the flip side of the "what are the crazy kids talking about" reaction - i have a cranky reaction to the dot-comming of language that i hear every day... i know it's just more slang evolution - but gak!

[rebwhy.livejournal.com]

my mother still says bums rush, and those words have been known to pass my lips too, but no one ever believes me that its actually a saying
thank you for restoring a tiny bit of my sanity!
every little bit helps...

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

i wonder if different regions hold the old slang more... a lot of these old sayings were familiar to me and i heard all of the time back in farm town usa - now out here in urban land not so much...

[susannochka.livejournal.com]

fabulous!

one night a long time ago when I waited tables I had a table of three giggly drunken people, one of whom had an older friend who'd taught him all kinds of slang and stuff like toasts from the 20s and 30s. they told this one while I opened their second bottle of wine and then wrote it down for me, the darlings:

here's to the lady with the little red shoes
she loves her nooky and she loves her booze
she lost her cherry, it is no sin
she still has the box
that it came in

Merry Christmas to you and Charlotte! I'm in PA. It's raining, but I'm pretending that it's snow.
xo

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

omg - that is awesome - i am in love

happy holidays sugar pants!