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My mother would say someone driving fast was "driving like Barney Oldfield".

In my house, your butt was your "Bohunkus". IDK if it was only us , or if it was a word used in other places. Dad used to call anything sticky and puddy-like "Achempucky". It didn't matter what the substance was used for...glue, lubrication, etc, it was all achempucky.....and we knew what he meant! I found out later it has been a word for a while in different areas, and used as the name of a product someplace.

My Grandfather called the stereo the "Victrola" the answering machine the,"dictaphone",Grandma,used to say "i ll snatch you bald headed","drunker than cooter brown". "That was Boss","Don t make me get my belt".
We had a fire work called a, knee gar chaser.

horsefeathers

Oklahoma credit card (6 feet of hose and a gas can)

Go cut me a switch.

What in the Sam Hill? Sam Hill was a surveyor known for his ability to cut loose a string of curse words.

LOL

my mother had my sister late in life , she was already confined to a wheelchair by the time my sister was 13-14

She’d tell my sister...”come here to me, so I can slap the taste outta your mouth”

She got neuropathy really bad in her hands, then it was “go get me something to beat you with”

Strike up a lucifer to light your f.ag.

I grew up in Savannah, Ga. around there it was “i’ll beat your ass from Bull to Broad” (streets)

Ask for a cup of coffee "leaded" from a waitress under 50. They'll have no idea what you're on about.

Pahsketti and muhfrigerator, when my little brother would ask Mom if the pahsketti was in the muhfrigerator.

Horsepuckey.

Jewish bankroll - wad of singles wrapped inside a 50.

I am only 47, but I recognize a bunch of these, and still use quite a few myself. Lotta folks my age look at me funny for it. Get along great with folks older than me, imagine that.

My mother had an upper class friend who would say to her son and me "You look like a degenerate, or stop acting like a degenerate."

For a time when I was in the service a follow on to "See you later, alligator, after awhile crocodile", was "After supper mother-----r".

Paul

Boy, you are just asking for some hickory tea! Which meant I was a fixin' to get my azz whupped.

Was just thinking to post this when I read yours. lol

When gramma said it, you made yourself scarce!

"drunker than cooter brown" was a true story. Sad in a way as Cooter Brown stayed drunk for the entire War of Northern Aggression as he lived close to the Mason-Dixon Line and didn't want to fight and kill kin or friends.
He just stayed too drunk to participate.

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W. Broad is now MLK Blvd.