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Old Roy

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post awhile back reminded me about some strange names and what different folks said in the early 60's

Here in Pa Bars were called "Beer gardens".
Many times I hear the guys saying something like "gonna go see an Indian about a blanket" which meant they were gong to go relieve themselves of some of the beer they were drinking.
Soda was called "Pop"

I spent 2 years in New Jersey and they wondered what part of the south I was from that was around New Brunswick-- Geographically directly West.
I thought I was in Brooklyn for the accent. I remember they called their Beer gardens "Gin mills"
 
Beer Garden probably came from anyone who had been in Germany or descended from Germans, as that's what bars are often called there. Two statements I've heard used to announce the intent to relive oneself of some beer are "getting hold of the head of the family" and "shaking hands with my wife's best friend".
 
Little off but the saying Ive heard my dad say and never could figure it out "He talks like a man with a paper a$$ hole. Any guess.
 
doogdoog,

In grade school they called me teek a leak. :eek:) It was derived from the sound of my last name.
 
Back in the 50's when I was a kid driving tractor my dad and uncles would say, give er a-- hole when they wanted you to open the throttle and go, and when they wanted you to really let er rip they would say, Give er tarpaper a-- hole! Never heard that one since.
 
The last place around here that I ever heard called a "beer garden" was a place that only had a license to sell beer and wine. The place across the road had a liquor license and was the "bar".
 
I haven't heard "go check the tires" lately. We said that when we were young and dumb out booze cruzing, we're lucky we never killed anyone.
 
Sort of related:
When my brother or me would show up in the morning after a rough night out and lookin" a little peakish my Dad would say:
"Your eyes look like two pi$$ holes in the snow!
 
Pardner of mine, when somebody didn't know what they were talking about would say " His arse is sucking buttermilk"
 
When someone is saying far fetched stuff my dad says he is "talking out of his a$$ cuz his mouth knows better".

When its icy an slick it is "slicker than snot on a broom handle" or "slicker than snot on a doorknob.

When you go to the store/shop to get somethings and you forget something he says "if you don't have it in your head, you gotta have it in your feet" meaning you have to go back.
 
Paper A$$hole - those little reinforcement rings you put on the holes in a three ring binder if they rip or to stop them from ripping.
 
Paper A$$hole - those little reinforcement rings you put on the holes on your paper in a three ring binder if they rip or to stop them from ripping.
 
When I want to sleep with the wife, I say can I check the oil tonite.

My 9 year old son has no clue to what I am talking about.
 
Nervous as a long tailed cat in a room full of rockin chairs.
Busier than a one legged man in a butt kicking contest.
Drop it like a bad habit.
Lies like a cheap rug.
Sweating like a dog cra--ing peach pits.
Ugly as a mud fence.
Pretty as a new set of snow tires.

Hope this helps....... :mrgreen: Mark
 
Going fishing was "gonna go wash some worms"
opening up the throttle, "blow the cobwebs out"
When we go do chores, we "go chew doors"
 
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