s/o slightly outdated phrases and exclamations

[Anonymous]

Oh, fiddle sticks!!

[Anonymous]

Gag me with a running chain saw! (Valley girl talk 90’s)

[Anonymous]

I have a female work colleague in her early 60s who frequently says “look it” for emphasis, which seems like something only an even older guy would say.

I grew up hearing the expression “cotton pickin” fairly often (like “are you out of your cotton pickin mind?”) and try hard to repress that memory as it seems to be considered offensive now.

Agree that a lot of the cringe-inducing corporate speak aged very fast and now could only be used ironically today without engendering a well-deserved smirk.

[Anonymous]

Never look a gift horse in the mouth!

[Anonymous]

I kinda love these old sayings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a female work colleague in her early 60s who frequently says “look it” for emphasis, which seems like something only an even older guy would say.

I grew up hearing the expression “cotton pickin” fairly often (like “are you out of your cotton pickin mind?”) and try hard to repress that memory as it seems to be considered offensive now.

Agree that a lot of the cringe-inducing corporate speak aged very fast and now could only be used ironically today without engendering a well-deserved smirk.

Oh, wow, I haven’t heard that in a long time. But, as a 63-year-old woman, I heard it plenty in my teens and 20s!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, dear.
We can't dance and it's too wet to plow.
For the love of all that is holy.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
For cryin' out loud.
For Pete's sake.
Goodness gracious.
Cattywampus.
Whore bump.
Good grief.

Was nodding and nodding along until the bolded. Don’t want to google this at all. What is it meant to convey?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a female work colleague in her early 60s who frequently says “look it” for emphasis, which seems like something only an even older guy would say.

I grew up hearing the expression “cotton pickin” fairly often (like “are you out of your cotton pickin mind?”) and try hard to repress that memory as it seems to be considered offensive now.

Agree that a lot of the cringe-inducing corporate speak aged very fast and now could only be used ironically today without engendering a well-deserved smirk.

When you consider that the majority of sharecroppers in the south were poor whites, it's not quite so racial a saying as you might fear.

I do say "my, fancy that" fairly often. And "good lord."

-In my 40s.

[Anonymous]

Chester Drawers

[Anonymous]

Welp.

[Anonymous]

Heck yes, that's bananas, jeeze louise, what the heck,

I also call people "random ass clowns", say "f&% you f*#* balls" "mother f**ker" "JFC"

[Anonymous]

Oh, Phooey!

Oh, Poop.

Poop! Dang! Dang it! Shoot!

Gosh darn it. Darn it. Gosh! Fudge. Nuts!

Cheese and bread! Good Golly! Daggum!

[Anonymous]

Saints preserve us!

- My Irish-born Granny.

[Anonymous]

I don’t give a tinker’s damn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chester Drawers

Do you mean a chest of drawers?