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  • #16
    Re: Phrases long forgotten

    My grandmother was from Boston and you know how today people say "get OUT!" when they can't believe something? (Did Seinfeld originate that?) She used to say: "Good NIGHT!" and it meant the same thing, lol. Course she had that whole Brahmin Boston accent going on too. Fancied herself a Kennedy.

    Julie Gray



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    • #17
      Re: Phrases long forgotten

      I remember growing up, everything was "that was wicked". "He's wicked cool".. then when I went to school, lotsa folks were from Mass, and the Boston guys were still saying it there. Everynow and then I still here it, and it's always a Boston guys saying it "That's pitcha's got a wicked ahhhm!" you know?

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      • #18
        Re: Phrases long forgotten

        Originally posted by Jcorona View Post
        I'm a whoop your a$$ on GP. If anybody can tell me what GP stands for, I'm scared a you.
        Corona
        GP = General principles.

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        • #19
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          I'm scared a you, whopper.

          Corona
          I love you, Reyna . . .

          Brown-Balled by the Hollywood Clika

          Latino Heart Project's MEXICAN HEART...ATTACK!
          I ain't no punk b1tch...

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          • #20
            Re: Phrases long forgotten

            My mother would always say: "The same ole 76..."

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            • #21
              Re: Phrases long forgotten

              I'm stoked cause these replies are bitchen!~

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              • #22
                Re: Phrases long forgotten

                Way.

                Julie Gray



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                • #23
                  Re: Phrases long forgotten

                  I don't know if these are local, or just favorites of my mother:

                  If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

                  That's not worth the powder to blow it up with.

                  That's worth about as much as a fart in a windstorm.

                  Oh, yeah, then there was: sped which meant stupid (short
                  for the special education program for mentally challenged
                  students). Is that a local thing, or is that everywhere?

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                  • #24
                    Re: Phrases long forgotten

                    Originally posted by La Femme Joyeuse View Post
                    Way.


                    Corona
                    I love you, Reyna . . .

                    Brown-Balled by the Hollywood Clika

                    Latino Heart Project's MEXICAN HEART...ATTACK!
                    I ain't no punk b1tch...

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                    • #25
                      Re: Phrases long forgotten

                      I've heard that in Texas, there's an old saying that goes, "rode hard and put up wet-. It used to refer to how poorly a horse was treated; if they were ridden hard all day, and then put away without being washed down. Apparently now it's used to describe someone who's "weathered-, or tired and unkempt.

                      Being from the NE originally, there was something the "old timers- used to say:
                      "I 'bout magine-. This was used to either blow off someone's wild statement, or to offer ½ hearted empathy. As in:

                      Tom: I caught a fish THIS big.
                      Harry: Uh huh. I 'bout magine.

                      Or

                      Tom: I'm gonna have a Hell of a time cuttin' all that wood.
                      Harry: I 'bout magine.

                      "Wicked good- means really good.
                      My grandmother used to say to "Cruisin' for a bruisin'- if I was acting "fresh-.
                      "To Hell in a handbasket- - my mother used to say this one too
                      "Ttfn- = ta ta for now - I think this comes from Winnie the Pooh, but it seemed like everyone used to say this.

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                      • #26
                        Re: Phrases long forgotten

                        my g'ma was always fond of telling us that if we didn't start behaving, she would...

                        'box our ears in'

                        always makes me grin.
                        Honest is easy, fiction's where genius lies.
                        ~Guster

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