Old-Fashioned Words and Phrases

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by DapperButch

Damn you're good. I must know...did you come up with these yourself, or did you find this on google or something?

Not that you couldn't come up with them yourself, it is just a lot to come up with and I want to know just how impressed I should be!

You should be VERRRRY impressed.



Nope, all of that jumble was from my noggin. I've got more but it tends to come out when the situation warrants it.

Originally Posted by little_ms_sunshyne

Whenever my Abuelita (granny) says she is getting old and it will be her time soon, my Dad always jumps in and says:

"You know what they say about the bad weed...it never dies" lol

Now imagine this conversation in Spanish...yup..very animated.

When referring to "grooming" your special areas...Grandma's advice to me was (keep in mind I didnt ask for any advice),

"If there is no nest, there will be no bird" Ummmm..wonder if Grandma realizes I am not looking for any visits from birds lol

Weeeellllll.......in the old days, a female was referred to as a bird.




For Dapper's Google infactuation (I knew about the term but couldn't remember how it came to be):

bird - woman or girlfriend - now unfortunately a rather unflattering term, but it wasn't always so; until recent times 'bird' was always an endearing term for a girl, derived from the Anglo-Saxon 'brid' which meant 'baby animal', in other words a cute little thing. The origin also gave us the word 'bride'.