Favorite old fashioned words

[Anonymous]

damnation
trousers instead of "pants"
dress down instead of "move over"
paling instead of "fence"
horseplay
rough-housing
"You boys" starts every stern sentence..."are trifling"...ends most.
Christ on a cracker!-- Is that gangster? From like the 1920s? Al Capone? Or Chicago housewife 2010?

And oh yeah, Huzzah is a great one. Mostly, I would write that, but never say it.

[Anonymous]

23:34 Both of my parents say "suffering succotash" instead of a more profane expletive. My sibs and I say it when we are around our parents or each other to bring back memories. Also to the PP who doesn't know where "living the life of Riley" comes from: There was an old radio and TV show about (I believe) an airplane assembly worker in California post WWII whose name was Chester Riley. He was always in silly situations and his dear wife, Peg, was his sounding board. I think it was a snippet of upbeat, positive life where problems were trivial. Thus, "Living the Life of Riley" may mean a problem-free life. I still hear it occasionally on Sunday nights on WAMU radio's "Big Broadcast" which plays old radio shows. I am a nostalgia nut.

[Anonymous]

I like saying "slacks" instead of "pants"

[Anonymous]

Thirty lashes with a wet noodle. As in...

"You left the cap off the toothpaste again."

"Well, thirty lashes with a wet noodle for me!"

[Anonymous]

Harridan
Shrill harpy
Not that I'm referring to anyone on this board, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harridan
Shrill harpy
Not that I'm referring to anyone on this board, of course.

Lol. Harridan is a terrible, sexist, enormously evocative word. Molly Shannon and (Patricia?) Wiig on SNL do spot hilarious representations of this terrible stereotype.

[Anonymous]

Hanky-Panky

[Anonymous]

I love Dag-nabbit as a swear alternative


Also my grandmother used to use "kerfuffle" (to ruffle or disarrange) Like as in "when little Tommy brought the wet dog into the formal luncheon, he caused such a kerfuffle among the ladies"

I've never been able to use it in a sentence, but it always makes me smile when I see people fussing over some minor disaster or another.

[Anonymous]

I use Elvis as a replacement for God in various swear words/expressions, such as "What in Elvis' name are you doing?"

[Anonymous]

I have one friend who talks like he is in a 1940s film noir. He uses chantoosie in normal conversation.

[Anonymous]

Corpus bones!

[Anonymous]

"ants in your pants" - when referring to a child who can't sit still.

[Anonymous]

"Holy Christmas!" (that was my grandfather's) and "Look at this stormcloud" (my husband's grandmother) describing my little one's grumpy face.

[Anonymous]

Copacetic is a current fave!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Look at this stormcloud" (my husband's grandmother) describing my little one's grumpy face.

I LOVE this!