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Monday, March 15, 2010
Words we hate to lose from Facebook
Here's a Facebook post that turned into a whole discussion.
aren't E-Tickets any more. Can we still use that phrase.
March 11 at 4:22am
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Roger Holzberg
Only if you're over 50? and can still remember using an E-ticket... Of course "that rocks" and "what a trip" are still used. And didn't Jeff Bridges use the word " groovy" when accepting his award???
March 11 at 4:47am ·
Flint Dille
Groovy made a big comeback. Man, Jeff Bridges looked like a good, happy guy.
March 11 at 5:11am ·
Flint Dille
You never hear 'bitchin' anymore.
March 11 at 5:18am ·
Flint Dille
The interesting thing is how many phrases outlive their original meaning.
March 11 at 5:45am ·
Eric Lichtenfeld
I use "bitchin'," but only rarely. I do use "groovy" and even "swell." I like "E-ticket," but think it's sad when it's bastardized as "A-ticket."
March 11 at 5:45am ·
Flint Dille
Yeah. A-Ticket means you didn't know the drill. I remember my two E-Tickets when I was a kid on a hot summer night in LA. Probably why I moved here.
March 11 at 5:46am ·
Christopher Kent
I was raised on a farm by my Grandparents, who were both born around 1910, so I picked up alot of early 1900's slang from them. Throughout my life I've used expressions that other people never use, like "Red up", etc.
March 11 at 5:53am ·
Flint Dille
What's Red Up mean?
March 11 at 6:09am ·
Christopher Kent
lol, well my Grandma would say "Red up your room". It would mean "Clean your room"
March 11 at 6:11am ·
Christopher Kent
And since she was raised by her Grandparents, I suspect it may even be 1800's slang, though I'm not sure. Just assumed it based on context clues.
March 11 at 6:13am ·
Flint Dille
My grandfather used to say, 'your libel to..." It had nothing to do with slander, it meant 'likely.' "Your Libel to blow your hand off with that firecracker." Thats mostly gone.
March 11 at 6:15am ·
Janet Batchler
http://www.amazon.com/Rand
om-House-Historical-Dictio
nary-American/dp/039454427
7/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=boo
ks&qid=1268320856&sr=1-1
This is one of my favorite books (Yes, really). Unfortunately, they never got funding to go past the letter O, so I can't look up when "red up" started... great phrase, though.
March 11 at 6:22am ·
Flint Dille
Is it my imagination or is the world becoming a lot more generic?
March 11 at 6:23am ·
Bill Winter
My mom, born in '24 used to say it "hurt like 60". Any body know the origins of that?
March 11 at 7:04am ·
Christopher Sigmund
My grandmother used to say "red up" too. According to Urban Dictionary it's Pitsburghese (she was born and lived her life in Johnstown PA), and that it has Scots origin. According to Wikipedia it's origin is Pennsylvania Dutch. Other than that, got me, although I'd be more likely to believe the Dutchy origin from that area anyway.
March 11 at 7:06am ·
Dean Orion
To get back to your original comment, Flint, you'll be happy to know that the phrase "E-Ticket ride" is still pretty common vernacular around Walt Disney Imagineering, despite the fact that technically it's not exactly the same thing as it used to be. Now it refers simply to the more high budget attractions, not something that requires a special purchase. As you know, they don't sell those booklets anymore with the "A", "B," "C," "D," and "E" tickets in them.
March 11 at 7:20am ·
John Nee
Flint....i don't think I ever hear you use cliches. It's well known that you have your own Flintspeak anyway.
March 11 at 7:23am ·
Roger Holzberg
Yes, but even at Imagineering, VERY few people ever gave an E-Ticket to a ticket taker ... and the E-Ticket conference room disappeared from the exec. offices ...
March 11 at 7:36am ·
Brannon Boren
Phones still "ring", bands still release "albums". I've never heard "red up", but I do tell my son to "police up" a room.
March 11 at 7:51am ·
Rick Giolito
Boy Scouts...."Police the Area"....love it.
March 11 at 8:16am ·
David B
@Dean The Disney parks in Tokyo still have E-Ticket attractions.
March 11 at 8:35am ·
Buzz Dixon
"Greetings, gate. Heavy duty, areet?"
We could use a lot more hep cat jive in the world today.
(And didn't your grandmother mean "liable?")
March 11 at 10:05am ·
David Wise
We've lost "Don't touch that dial."
OTOH, we still have "Dial tone," "Off the hook," "Hang up" (THERE'S an oldie!), etc.
March 11 at 10:12am ·
Sherri Stoner
"chinese fire drill."
March 11 at 10:16am ·
G.D. Strauff
Chinese Fire Drills are awesome! Except, y'know, in Manhattan traffic.
March 11 at 10:31am ·
Jason Brooks
HAH, that's soooooo bitchin dude!....I still say that! : )
March 11 at 10:51am ·
Sanford S. Williams
I'm actually surprised that phrase still exists.
March 11 at 10:56am ·
Cathy Masamitsu
Yes, but the only people who understand what that means are the same people who understand this short clip:
http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=mFCCFS_lhA8
Blessings, Cathy
March 11 at 11:54am ·
Matt Perez
People in New England still say "wicked" as an adverb, as in "It's wicked hot in here." I still like E-Ticket ride. It's anachronistic, but many of our most durable slang words are.
March 11 at 12:05pm ·
Flint Dille
I haven't heard 'powerful hot' since the Beverly Hillbillies.
March 11 at 12:40pm ·
Sherri Stoner
The thing about "E - Ticket" is that it describes in a short phrase what would otherwise take a lot of words to describe, ya know? I like that. "Googled" is like that to me. Probably will be more phrases like this since texting seems to be the thing.
March 11 at 12:41pm ·
Matt Perez
Without the Beverly Hillbillies we also don't hear "cement pond" or "'cipherin'" or "goesintas."
March 11 at 1:00pm ·
Sherri Stoner
"cipherin" is a good one. since I write all day when it comes to talking, my brain is so tired the less words the better for me. And for the people who have to listen to me. "Harper get cipherin'" instead of "Harper it's time for your math homework." She'd probably throw an eraser at me though.
March 11 at 1:14pm ·
Sherri Stoner
It goes along with the whole "Strunk & White" ideal to use as few words as possible. Real e-ticket idea.
March 11 at 1:27pm ·
Cb Floyd
I did...it's in my book. But of course, I had to explain what the f**k it meant. (Is it OK to say fuck on this website?)
HAHAHAHAHA.
March 11 at 4:30pm ·
Jason Brooks
I wanna go skinny dippin in dat der ceement pond with ellie mae...I really like her critters! ; )
March 11 at 5:01pm ·
Christopher Kent
How about "shoot the breeze"
March 11 at 5:40pm ·
Rick Giolito
"Three dog night". A great 60's rock band as well as a description for of a really cold evening.
March 11 at 5:49pm ·
Mark Rudge
Someone wrote "Cadillac" into a script the other day, describing something that was uber-awesome. Don't they use that to describe health-care plans that are 'the best', too? I feel like that's something that means a mere fraction of what it used to.
March 11 at 7:24pm ·
Christopher Kent
Dime a Dozen? I assume this refers to a time when something literally was 12 for ten cents?
Hit the Hay: Way back when wasn't a mattress stuffed with straw or something?
Tie the knot: in the 1700's some people included an actual knot tying in the wedding ceremony.
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Fri at 2:23am ·
Flint Dille
Those are great. I always thought it was perk up your ears like a cat. A lot of animal phrases came from when we were an agrarian country but stick around even though most people never see animals except at a zoo or in a CG movie.
Horse sense - dying term.
Fri at 12:06pm ·
Rick Giolito
Crazy like a fox.......
Fri at 12:08pm ·
Mary Pendergast
My parents were the age of most friends' grandparents so it broadened my horizons and certainly influenced my expressions. I was surprised to find out in my youth that hassle was not a term coined in the 60s. Much older per my Dad, I think. (Then again he used to say hep instead of hip just to tease me as a teen). I will always say some outdated ones like icebox. I tried to update but still often say "Put it on the ice."
Love some of the regional ones. I had a boss from New Orleans who used to say "I better look like doing it." I use that one for fun. And a guy I knew in college from Pittsburgh said "Y'ins' as in "Y'all." Bubbler is (was?) water fountain in Wisconsin. Christopher - I heard caddy corner a lot when in school at Dayton. Not sure if just Ohio kids though.
Also some are military. We all know SNAFU but my brother who was a doctor at a MASH unit in Viet Nam used GOMER for old person. I can hear Dad saying "You old gomer..." kiddingly so unsure if old or he got it from Bob. But my brother said the doctors used it as an acronym for Get Out of My Emergency Room. It is a standard in our family now.
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Fri at 4:50pm ·
Flint Dille
I was reading Conspiracy of Paper (eerily relevant to today) by David Liss and came upon his explanation for the term Double Cross. WikiPedia confirmed that it was one explanation of the term.
It has also been suggested that the term was inspired by the practice of 18th-century British thief taker and criminal Jonathan Wild, who kept a ledger of his transactions and is said to have placed two crosses by the names of persons who had cheated him in some way
Sat at 4:47am ·
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