>> A lot of the old words and phrases are going away and it’s a shame <<
Indeed. I sometimes travel thru parts of Appalachia, where the old guys hanging around the courthouse square still talk like Roy Acuff or Grandpa Jones, and the young waitresses at IHOP talk like Valley Girls. Almost makes me wanna cry!
“Indeed. I sometimes travel thru parts of Appalachia, where the old guys hanging around the courthouse square still talk like Roy Acuff or Grandpa Jones, and the young waitresses at IHOP talk like Valley Girls. Almost makes me wanna cry”!
I hear you. Sad.
I said hello to an old man the other day and asked how he was and he said “Oh, fair to middlin’. I hadn’t heard that in a while.
My Dad, a World War Ii vet who was born in 1918 used to corner us kids when he wanted the truth and say “Now I want the straight dope. Who did it”?