DO YOU REMEMBER?
        

"Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!"

"A bookworm"...nerds today.

"He's got Roman hands and Russian fingers."

Eye glasses were "cheaters"

Eyes were "Peepers"

"She's in a family way."

Getting "skunked" (beaten)

"A grind" (dull person)

"Henpecked"

"I got dibbies (or dibs) on that one!"

Cars without turn indicators (called "blinker lights" today)

"TILT!"

"One potato, two potato, three potato, four"...a hand game

"Goody two-shoes"

"Goody-goody gumdrop!"

"You dumb Palooka!"

Pinboys (worked at bowling alleys)

"Double standard" between boys and girls

"Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette!" an ad

Carter's Little Liver Pills

"Get with it"

"It takes one to know one."

"Hubba-hubba" with eyebrows being wiggled up and down

Athletes doing ads for cigarettes

Polio scare (then called "infantile paralysis,")

Life before Novocain dentists (for us it was coming to the US)

"Long-hair music" meant classical, not rock.

"Made in the shade"...something easy to do

"Making out"---when it meant "going all the way,"

"Necking, smooching, necking, petting, or in the polite way courting"

Submarine races...what you did sitting in the front seat of the car in a certain area with a view

78 and 45 rpm records and 33 1/3 LP's

The gesture to indicate male homosexuality by licking the inside of your right little finger and smoothing down your eyebrow with same finger.

The gesture of pride by blowing on the finger nails of your right hand, and "polishing" them two or three times on your upper chest

"Your room looks like Fibber Magee's closet!" (messy)

"It takes one to know one."

"Let's don't, and say we did."

Ink pens and ink wells and ink on the inside of middle finger (you wondered if it would be a permanent tattoo)

Fountain pens, Parker pens and Esterbrook pens

"Peach fuzz" (before you shaved)

Fuuny named songs: "Mairzy Doats," "Doggie in the Window," "Hutsut Ralston," "Chickery Chick," "Open the Door, Richard,"  Cememt Mixer, Putty, Putty,"  

"Too old to cut the mustard"

The Shmoo

Sadie Hawkins Day... This day women and girls took the initiative in inviting the man or boy of their choice out on a date, typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their aggressive dates.

Card games: old maid, canasta, crazy 8, war, casino, and the most infamous--52 Card Pick Up

"Step on a crack; break your mother's back."

"LS/MFT, LS/MFT" Lucky Strikes Mean Fine Tabacco

U.S. War Stamps

Moron jokes

"That's a Deusey!"

Knock-knock jokes

"Brown noser"

Sexist put-downs by men: "panty waist, or Mama's boy"

Mercurochrome and merthiolate (that red stuff that burned on cuts)

Eat your dinner. Think of the starving children in China

Flat top haircuts, crew cuts, Pompadours, Mohicans, Scobees...

"Girls" bicycles

Carrying a "torch" for someone

"I'll be a monkey's uncle!"

"Hey, four-eyes!"

"2-bits, 4-bits, 6-bits, a dollar!"

the Apache Dance

the Kool cigarette penguin ("Smoke Kooools!")

Spitballs

"No soap!" meaning "no way"

"Aw, your father's mustache!"

Hay rides

Sock-hops

Te Cha, Cha, Cha...in the States they did the Cha, Cha!

"Chuleta" the  spanish word meaning Porkchop which we used as a curse word.

Squeekies...Montuno shoes girls wore...dead giveaway in Halls of BHS

"Meet you under the clock"

Square trees and golden frogs.

"El numero, el numero, el numero es...the lottery 

Chagres Water

Leaving "for good."

The College Ship

"Michas and palitrokes"

"Are you writing a book?"  When someone asked too many questions

"You bug me"

"On Cloud 9" where you were when things went your way with the opposite sex

"Cool it"...calm down

"Cruisin' for a bruisin"'...a threat

D.D.T. (Drop Dead Twice)

"Floor it"...step on the gas fast

Going ape...getting excited

Knuckle sandwich...a threat

"Meanwhile, back at the ranch"...getting back to the story.

"No sweat"...easy

"Party pooper"...spoil sport

"Pop the Clutch"...let the clutch out fast

"Rag Top"...a convertible top

"Rattle your cage"...make you nervous

The "other" side 

Sun rising in the West and setting in the East.

Shaking your wrist and slapping your index finger to your middle finger and thumb that are pressed together. 

Pointing at things with your lips.

Smelling the rain from miles away and having the rain coming down on only one side of your house.

Listening to AFRS or the Spanish station WHOLY in Panama where you could call in song requests.

"Jewing a person down"...shopping in the Hindu stores and offering less money than stated on product.

"Chivas"...colorful buses we drove around in.

                    Want do add any other sayings or memories?
                                     please me,

  Doris
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