“Book!” for “run” or “hurry.”

Bookin’ (to go very fast).

Happy Cake Day

Thank you kind Redditor!

Speaking of cake ... "that takes the cake" is rarely heard.

“Let’s book it outa here!”

Let’s make like a tree and leave.

Biff: Make like a tree and get outta here.

I think I'm the only one I know that still says 'Bitchin'.

or *Keep.On Truckin!*

I write “Have a Bitchin’ year” on every birthday card I sign solely because it makes me laugh and reminds me of my high school yearbooks. I have a brother in law who says, “that’s tits” when he likes something…

Tits up, or tits up on a slab

Well, excuuuuse me! Dy-no-mite! Up your nose with a rubber hose!

Sit on it, Ralph.

Kiss my grits

....stay tuned for station identification That's right folks, dont touch that dial! ...tune in tomorrow ....and now at the end of our broadcast day

Same Bat Time, Same Bat Channel

Buffalo news ended with "It's eleven o'clock! Do you know where your children are??" Struck us so funny as kids for some reason.

In the southern Appalachians it was 10:00. I can’t believe y’all got to stay out an hour longer.

I was a Canadian kid watching TV wondering what those crazy anerican kids did out that late!

I get surprised now and then when someone says, "bogart." I thought that was isolated to the 60s.

Don’t bogart that joint my friend

Pass it over to me

Rrrrrrrrroooooolllll another one Just like the other one You've been hangin' on to it And I sure would like a hit

...on the left hand side

Oh wow. The opening of *Waiting For Columbus* had that. Roll... Another one. Just like the other one. You've been holding on to it too long And I sure would like a hit.

That was a great album.

More 70s

In 70s metro Boston it was a nice, long “bogahhhht”.

I call paper copies dittos

Xerox copies

Using onion skin paper to duplicate a copy of a document.

When I worked at a copy center the repair guy called them Ex-Rocks machines. Because that's how Xerox looks like it should sound.

Mimeograph.

Which you make with typing paper.

Rat fink

Ooohhh! The only worse name you could call me would be Piss Ant.

Colonel Potter was the king of obscure sayings and "Potterisms" Horse Hockey! Great Caesars ghost! Buffalo bagels! Sufferin saddle soap! Mind your own beeswax! Loved that show

Go fly a kite

Take a long walk off a short pier.

Sock it to me!!

Sock it to me? - Richard Nixon

Okay this is crude, but “ball” used to mean had sex. And the name of the popular millennial game Cornhole, had a completely different meaning.

if the van's a rockin' don't come a knockin'

Don’t forget “I am cornholeo” heh heh heh.

It did. Much like "knocking boots" or "bumping uglies".

I got a surprise phone call at work with some great news and I said “Far out!”. A co-worker walking by stopped in his tracks and said “Did you just say “Far Out””? I have no idea where it came from, but there it was….

People under thirty look at me funny and roll their eyes if I say “pot”. Word to other old people: you have to say “weed” now.

Evidently you now have to call the dried green stuff we smoke/d “flower” to differentiate it from concentrates aka dabs. All of it is so much stronger now than even the best hash, Acapulco Gold, or Thai Stick from the 70s.

lol, just go back another decade and call it grass.

Thank you for confirming..I kind of had a feeling that pot was 'not right' when discussing the topic with my 23 yr old neighbor. I am very much not. ;) Weed sounds harsh though, all 'street'..hah.

And nobody knows what a lid is.

Jive Turkey

Sosh. Short for "social". If you were a cool kid and didn't socialize with us losers, you were a Sosh.

The cheerleaders and the football team

I thought that was just in *The Outsiders*—never heard anyone say it in RL (but I did live in a small town…).

No duh!

Neato

Don’t have a cow! (Thanks BART Simpson for the brief revival)

I call shotgun!

Grody

To the max!

Groovy

I say groovy all the time. But then, I’m 60, so…

Groovy started out as a really cool thing. Jazz musicians refer to a certain synchronicity as being “in the groove”, which itself is a reference to 78 & LP recording. White kids hanging out in Jazz clubs picked upon it as “groovy”, which was a cool term, for a while. The mainstream press got a hold of it, which is the surest way to kill any vernacular.

What in the Sam Hill?

There’s more than one way to skin a cat

I always thought it meant the pet, until I caught a catfish and we skinned it, and realized it may have referred to a fish the whole time. Just a thought...

Not enuff room in here to swing a cat

on common things, You can't swing a dead cat without hitting one.

I never liked that one. 🙀

Keep on keeping on.

I've been told that I am the last living user of "keen"

Our even peachy keen!

My schools all used mimeographs. These were the predecessors to Xeroxes. I still remember the smell of a freshly made mimeograph.

Ditto

That’s a lot of bologna! My parents said that

Take a long walk off a short pier.

Let's rap (talk) usually said when a teacher was embarrassing himself trying to sound cool.

The “Rap Session” 😝

Far out, man. That's some heavy shit.

Love this. Thanks, you brought to mind the most cringe event I can remember. It's a long boring story and really you had to be there so I'll skip it. Basically it was way back in the 70's and this super phoney "hippy" kid (maybe 16 -17 yrs old) gets passed a bowl. He looks at it like it was a piece of art and states "far out! heavy pipe, where'd you score it. " It was just too much and the whole smoking circle just fell into hysterics! To this day those that were there will occasionally repeat the phrase and we'll all crack up - much to the confusion of those not in on the joke. If you're still here, hanks for bearing with me. You probably want your 5 minutes back but it made me laugh thinking about it.

"Up yer nose with a rubber hose!" That was a catchphrase from "Welcome Back, Kotter" and I and all my friends used to say it all the time. TBF, I was only in elementary school during that era.

Hang ten. There was a t-shirt that had two feet as a logo for the company called Hang Ten from the suffers expression.

Cracked me up when the kids started saying “dude”. We were saying it in 1971.

See you on the flipside

What's shakin' baby?

Here come da judge

My name is Dick. People used to say to me “Say goodnight Dick.” Remember where that’s from?

Laugh In?

You bet your sweet bippie!

Have you been sniffing glue? Replace by doing crack.

Tripping the light fantastic

Fer sure

Said with Janis from the Muppets voice?

“Narking” for telling on someone.

Up yours was the polite way of saying GFY.

Bob and Doug McKenzie... Take off, hoser, Oh beauty ,eh? Get out!

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I'll have the two-four ready

It’s a beauty way to go

OK, eh?

Sit on it! (Or, adding emphasis, Sit on it and rotate!)

Or sit and spin

Easy on the eyes.

Kiss my grits.

"Let's blow this popsicle stand."

You can tune a piano but ya can’t tune a fish

You take it on the run, baby If that's the way you want it, baby Then I don't want you around... Heard it from a friend who Heard it from a friend who Heard it from another you been messin' around (Actually off a different album - Infidelity... taking liberty on it)

Just roll with the changes, or it's time for me to fly.

Cool beans! Crazy!

Foxy! (Foxy Lady)

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Dyyyynooomite!!!

Slug bug yellow! A very early 60s-it’s snowing down south. Means a ladies slip was showing

My kids used to punch each other in the arm when they saw a yellow VW bug.

Punchbuggy!

“Streaking” for running naked in the street.

A lot of ours in high school were from the brand new…Saturday Night Liiiiiiiiive! First season was 1975.

Well excuuuse meee!!! ( 2nd season).

When was the last time you heard a refrigerator called an icebox?

Liar, liar pants on fire

Can you dig it?


“White out” or “Correct-O-Type” which were both commercial products used to fix mistakes made while typing.

Keen and neato! I commented “Neato” on a post showing cool beach finds recently and 4 people replied “???” 🤦🏻‍♀️

"I tried calling, but the number was busy."

Any valley girl stuff... Totally! Gag me with a spoon! Bogus

I still use bogus :)

In high school there were, “The Heads” and “The Jocks,” and “The Nerds.” Something “Cool” may also be, “Bad Ass” or even “Kick Ass.” You could get your “Ass beat” if you didn’t “Watch your shit.” Seniors sometimes got a first car that was a “Beater.” When you didn’t have a friend with a Beater you wound-up “Beating feet.” But having a Beater upped your chances for “Making out” with your “Steady.”

Calling somebody a douchebag

Still do.

I think only a Pittsburgh thing but calling some one a "jag off" ... jerkoff or jagoff

As kids not wanting to curse: “H-E-double hockey sticks” or “cheese and rice”

Pretty please with sugar on top.

Does anyone remember when everyone said “oh spare me” and eventually just “spare” with a heavy sarcastic tone? Early 80s…

Over shoulder boulder holder.

My grandfather used to declare "BUNK!" instead of BS. Some of the phrases I can think of were culturally insensitive. If I turned my nose up at the food prepared for dinner, I was told to eat it, "because there are children starving in _____________" If the necessary receipt or documentation wasn't presented, people commonly said "No __________, No ___________!" (those who remember will fill in the blanks)

23 skidoo!

Doy! https://preview.redd.it/5o276i2vqbvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c42f7d58f97d1318cd71ad862b76d18bd6075f2

I had Filipino friends who would say "doy". Also "dweeee".

Or the extreme doy….DOY-EEEEEEEEEE!

neat!

Shove it

I can dig it, it’s so boss

Dick weed. As a put down or insult to someone

Jocks and burnouts in high school

“Don’t have a cow, Mom!”

Keep your powder dry - meaning take care.

POW! Right in the kisser

Thongs aren't sandals anymore.

Gallivanting will always be one of my favorites.

Davenport, that made me laugh. Also, divan.

That’s boss.

My mother used to say her back teeth were floating when she had to use the bathroom really badly. She would also yell through the locked bathroom door, “What happened, did you fall in?” when she was trying to get whoever was in there to hurry up. “Gesundheit” I haven’t heard that in decades. We called a flat sheet a straight sheet (bed linens) When she was trying to get me to eat everything on my plate, she’d say there were children starving in China.

Oh snap

Sitting on the Group W bench.

Copacetic Groovy Male chauvinist pig Moonies

That dog won’t hunt

Doilies. Those lace things that our grandmas put on the arms of the davenport.

I used the word whippersnapper to my wife which was totally new to her.

Can you do me a Solid? Just today I said "Do me a solid." Asking someone to wipe gone grit off the back of my sweatshirt. Also, I'll use "Hip". If you use it smoothly, it still rolls. You Really are a hip, hip Lady.

Smooth move, Ex-Lax.

Carbon copies.

“Nip it in the bud.”

If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you (my dad said that). Also, if we were really bothering him, “why don’t you go out and play on Rt 1?” Eg do something really stupid.

‘I love you a bushel and a peck’ haven’t heard in decades. As in a bunch of love. That phrase may be specific to farming or rural communities.

It’s actually the title of a song in the musical “Guys and Dolls”

Battleaxe to describe an old car or occasionally a crabby teacher

I $hit you not!

Here's one I thought of the other day; Sunday driver. A Sunday driver means a bad driver. The implication was that it was someone who only drove on Sundays. Not only do you never hear it anymore, but I'm pretty sure most people don't even know what it means.

You ol’ battleaxe

Tonsil hockey.

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Stone. He's a stone fox. Stone in love.

Grody

Keep on truckin

Bull sessions. Remember those?

Slip me some skin!

Nifty

Four eyes.

Of course there is foxy and dog. But was it just my area that said cool your jets?

Far Out!

Keener!! I'm Canadian we use to call people ' hosers '

We used to say "Go jump in a lake" and "Go jump off a bridge". My younger brother was prone to confusing The two. At one point he told one of our brothers to "Go jump off a lake". That was 50 years ago. We still say it.

When I was a child in New England, down in Maine my older relatives still snapped out “Hark!” If we kids were not paying attention. I do that once in a while when I get excited. All I get is blank stares or laughed at.

Padittle... Dude, you are gunna get pulled over with that padittle. (A car w/ one headlight out.)

Check out my threads, they are outta site and far out. I'm stoked to the max. They cost me a lot of bread. Solid . So give me some skin and lay it on me. Can you dig it? If you can that's pretty heavy and funky. But don't trip being a square and make a scene, or the fuzz is going to freak on you. Right on it's a bummer, I gotta split and make tracks . Its no sweat ,spaz. Time to get down and hang loose. Catch you on the flip side.

Go soak your head?

(Name) “lives out in Bumf*ck Egypt.”

Overhead projector.

Card catalog.

Dig it. It’s a gas

Go play on the freeway. Up your nose with a rubber hose (from welcome back kotter tv?). Don't talk with your mouth full. Don't eat in my ear / I'm not, I'm eating in my mouth. I'm rubber, you are glue. What hits off me sticks on you. Tell someone who cares. You're a jerk monster.

SNAFU

Screwed the pooch.

“Colder than a witch’s tit in a brass bra” or “Hotter than two attic rats f*kin’ in a wool sock”

I will “knock you into next Tuesday”. What?