<p>and then there’s the opposite – when they think they’ve invented something knew because it has a modernized name…A few years ago my step-D was obsessing about the spanx she needed to buy for a special dress and I had no idea what she was talking about until I saw it and said, “oh you mean girdles are back in fashion now?” (She was NOT amused 
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<p>My S1 and S2 are not growing as tall as their friends. They are regular height, maybe an inch or two short…my S1 is only @5’9" and he’s 19 and probably stopped growing…so I said to my younger S, “Good things come in small packages”, and he said, “HUH”?</p>
<p>I was once leading a presentation in front of 40 - 50 people and for whatever reason, the word “bluestocking” came to mind and I used it. No one had any idea what I was talking about.</p>
<p>“Bluestocking” - a smart, intellectual woman, but with a connotation of frumpy / dumpy / matronly</p>
<p>A friend of mine used these expressions in describing another friend who appears to be newly in love: “He finds her fetching … He’s quite smitten with her.” Those struck me as charmingly old-fashioned, yet really apropos to this particular situation, where “he finds her hot” and “he’s really into her” just don’t fit as well.</p>
<p>I learned something–I was confusing “bluestocking” with “bluenose.”</p>
<p>My nephew was stumped when I referred to delaying a decision as: Putting in on the back burner.</p>
<p>Every now and then my mom uses the term “vegg” as in to chill out. It’s really weird</p>
<p>My daughter’s jazz piano teacher uses words like “groovy” and “man.” My daughter doesn’t like it!</p>
<p>Hunt might be amused, that my S has a pretty well restored '73 Dart Sport. He put in a very nice radio/sound system. He also bought an under-the-dash 8-track player and installed it, just for the look!</p>
<p>It isn’t that they don’t know what a record is, it is that they don’t understand what a “broken record”, “broken record”, “broken record”, “broken record”, “broken record”, “broken record”, “broken record”, sounds like .</p>
<p>I was heart-broken in 1984 when someone broke into my '68 Chevy Nova and stole my 8-track deck.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever read any of the “Amelia Bedelia” books to kids…</p>
<p>My son was reading a book recently that had the phrase that the phone was left off the hook. It made no sense to him. Telephones don’t have hooks.</p>
<p>Not exactly the same topic but happened today and really bothered me. I am playing words with friends with a person in New Zealand. I am totally blown away and excited that I am playing a game of scrabble in real time with a person half way across the world and my kid is like"…yeah…so what?.."</p>
<p>aaarrrrggghhh…“so 30 seconds ago”</p>
<p>“shoot” not a gun…but used like “shucks” when something doesn’t go as expected or something breaks…just a way to express general chagrin. My kids think it’s strange when I say “aww shoot”</p>
<p>We recently visited Colonial Williamsburg, and saw a demonstration of a musket. I told my H that these muskets won’t last long because they’re just a flash in the pan. My H thought it was funny, but my S didn’t get the pun at all. How time marches on for every generation.</p>
<p>My college age son asked where to put the stamp on an envelope.</p>
<p>“You could walk.”</p>
<p>Taken back another generation, when my mother used to say that someone was a real “pill”.</p>
<p>There was a story in the NY Times today about how people who live alone can develop odd personal habits, titled “One Is the Quirkiest Number.”</p>
<p>I sent copies to my kids – both of whom are in their twenties and live alone – but after I hit “send,” I realized that I probably should have explained the title of the article and the old song it refers back to.</p>
<p>Neither son knew what I meant when I said that someone “drank the Kool-Aid”.</p>