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

[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...