<p>As a kid if something was upside down we would say “turn it upside right”, or if something was inside out we said “turn it inside right”. Ex H thought that was rather bizarre. Always seemed logical to me :).</p>
<p>When my kids were young and they would come down for breakfast, after they ate, I’d tell them to go get dressed, brush your teeth, comb your hair…the whole nine yards". After a few times, I’d just have to say, “go get dressed…the whole nine yards”.</p>
<p>they now use that expression when they’re doing a long list of routine chores…“Mom, I’m cleaning my room…the whole nine yards.”</p>
<p>Speaking of mimeographs, another term frequently used was “dittos” or “ditto machine”, also used in high schools.</p>
<p>I knew one would come to me. I had to explain to S2 what I meant when I said, “Your ears must be burning.”</p>
<p>I had to use the mimeograph machines when I was first out of college. Good think I was in shape back then.</p>
<p>bulletandpima–I would not have had any idea what the “ginkers” would have been either. In our high school they were called the “burn-outs”.</p>
<p>Similar to Dragonmom -</p>
<p>our pastor was meeting with our youth group discussing ideas for events. She suggested they could have a Hoe Down. The horrified looks on their faces was priceless.</p>
<p>My friend’s sons had friends over, when suddenly the toilet in their powder room started to overflow. She was barefoot at the time, and yelled at them to go get her thongs. When she saw their reaction she quickly translated her request to “flip flops.”</p>
<p>Second verse, same as the first…I was coaching a high school girls’ varsity team and came into practice one day and said “Hi ho” (as in “hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go!”) I think they all fell onto the ground in laughter. I never heard the end of that. 
And I agree. This thread is hysterical.</p>
<p>This is a fun thread. I love words! </p>
<p>I have translated song lyrics from the 60’s and 70’s for my kids. “bread” meant money comes to mind.</p>
<p>A few years ago we were on a family vacation in Utah, travelling between Zion and Bryce National Parks. We came across an old-fashioned diner at an intersection; the sign said “HO-MADE PIES” in flashing neon. The kids were laughing so hard tears were running down their faces. I finally made my H turn around so I could take a photo. We still laugh at that one…</p>
<p>D has a girl on her dorm floor whose name is Lollie. She mentioned the name and I sang “Lolly, lolly, lolly, get your adverbs here” (from Schoolhouse Rock). D had no idea what I was talking about.</p>
<p>this thread had me racking my brain all day as there are so many sayings I can’t remember. Two more I thought of are “get the lead out” to speed up, and my friends dad would answer our questions of where are you going with, " for a pint", I didnt get that one till we were older and went to visit relatives in England and Ireland who took us to the pubs for a many a pint lol</p>
<p>Pizzagirl…yes! All of the schoolhouse rock songs. I sing them all of the time!
I’m just a Bill
Lolly Adverbs
3 is a Magic number! (my favorite)
Interjections!
The Tale of Mr. Morton</p>
<p>Ohhh, I could go on. Something comes up in a conversation, and I think back to these videos and start to sing. And my son knows I am crazy…</p>
<p>Which reminds me “you can’t sing at the table or you will marry a crazy person”. First time I said that, my son could not believe I was so insensitive! I cannot tell you how many times I was told that at a kid!</p>
<p>My mom would tell us “I’m gonna yank a knot in your tail” when we misbehaved. When I didn’t want to eat, she would say, “There are children starving in Africa.” I didn’t get it at the time and often wondered why she just didn’t package up the food and send it to them. My BFF’s mom used to say, “It’s an ill wind that blows no good”. My mom would also say to “hightail it out of there” when she wanted us to move quickly.</p>
<p>Whenever I was not cleaning my plate my grandmother used to scold me with “Waste not; want not.” Which didn’t make any sense to me. I thought “‘Want not’ is exactly the situation here. I don’t want it, and neither does anybody else, so wasting it is the logical choice.”</p>
<p>My D mentioned on FB that she didn’t understand an evening invitation that stated there would be ‘Horses ovaries’ served. The others of her generation who didn’t get it made for some funny posts. My mother used the expression regularly, well perhaps when she might encounter ‘horses ovaries’. </p>
<p>Here is the most recent version of the Beloit College mindset list, which explores those generational changes every year, usually as the new class arrives. </p>
<p>[The</a> Mindset List: 2015 List](<a href=“http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/]The”>http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2015/)</p>
<p>when they were teenagers my mother 5’2 would say to her sister 5’11 bad weeds grow tall and good things come in little packages, my aunt would reply so does poison</p>
<p>when I was little and scraped a knee or suffered a minor pain my mother would say you’ll never remember it on your wedding day</p>
<p>coskat…so funny…whenever I got hurt as kid my mother would always say ''It’ll get better before you get married."</p>
<p>My daddy used to say “over yonder” a lot.</p>
<p>How about “cc” and “bcc”. They know what the terms mean, they just don’t know a cc is a carbon copy or what a carbon copy is! </p>
<p>Speaking of carbon copies, remember that awful carbon paper in typing class? Oh, yeah, my kids probably wouldn’t know what typing class is. That was the class after Home Ec.</p>
<p>^^ So true about the carbon paper! And remember those pencil-style typewriter erasers with the little brush on the other end? For that matter, remember when you were proofreading your English paper and found a mistake? – and then had to decide whether to make a sloppy correction, retype the whole page, or turn it in and hope the prof didn’t care! My gosh, kids can’t possibly realize how wonderful it is to have word processor programs.</p>
<p>^ So true. In the same vein, how many people in the future will know what white-out is?</p>
<p>I loved the story of the person who wanted her thongs. I used to call flip flops thongs, until my D educated me, and said I wouldn’t be allowed out with her at the mall if I kept doing it.</p>
<p>When cropped pants came back in a few years ago, I told my daughter it brought back memories to see pedal pushers back. She said “am I going to have to ground you again?”</p>
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<p>I realize that e-mail is taking over, but a college age kid who is not familiar with stamps and envelopes? That seems pretty unlikely to me. My seven year old nephew knows how to mail a letter.</p>