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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 22:41:12 GMT
Now you mention it, I've indeed come across that explanation here and there, but was never sure of its credibility. Interesting to consider a time when he could have been treated by journalism with such dismissive levity.
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Post by alfromni on Jul 4, 2020 22:46:38 GMT
Doghouse6 -- As you say the expression has probably been used on numerous occasions before the radio show came into being, but not on such a regular basis as to make it into some sort of catchphrase. Just normal use of language. Such as an unwanted guy coming into a room and someone saying, "Oh Lord, it's that man again".
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 4, 2020 22:58:26 GMT
Heeeeer's Johnny
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:01:05 GMT
Doghouse6 -- As you say the expression has probably been used on numerous occasions before the radio show came into being, but not on such a regular basis as to make it into some sort of catchphrase. Just normal use of language. Such as an unwanted guy coming into a room and someone saying, "Oh Lord, it's that man again". Perhaps only in the U.S. It seemed to occur with such frequency, and even gave rise to an alternate phrasing, "That man's in again," but in either form, used most often as a self-deprecating but romantic greeting. For instance, Franchot Tone says it to Joan Crawford in '34's Sadie McKee, and Clark Gable to Myrna Loy in '36's Wife vs. Secretary in that context. There are many others that don't come to mind right now. But every time I hear it, I think to myself, "It's that phrase again!"
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Post by sadsaak on Jul 4, 2020 23:02:08 GMT
Well, this won't get baby a new frock
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:05:03 GMT
Would make an appropriate grave or mausoleum marker.
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Jul 4, 2020 23:05:37 GMT
You son of a gun
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:09:30 GMT
More a question than a submission: does anyone refer to dialing a phone number anymore? Anyone younger than we fossils who grew up with rotary phones, that is?
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Post by alfromni on Jul 4, 2020 23:10:02 GMT
Very tasty, very sweet! ( another WWII phrase) Doghouse6 - Re dialling Yes I do. but I'm an old fossil.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 4, 2020 23:15:41 GMT
STIX NIX HICKS FLIX
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 4, 2020 23:17:19 GMT
More a question than a submission: does anyone refer to dialing a phone number anymore? Anyone younger than we fossils who grew up with rotary phones, that is? or refer to getting a long distance call ?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:18:41 GMT
"She's a cute little dish / tomato / trick. I could go for her."
In 1932's Love Me Tonight, someone's fainted, and Charles Butterworth rushes into the next room where Myrna Loy is and asks, "Could you go for a doctor?" Loy, straighting her dress and primping her hair, says, "Certainly. Send him in."
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Post by alfromni on Jul 4, 2020 23:23:40 GMT
Is "Jeepers Creepers" still used?
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Post by autumn on Jul 4, 2020 23:28:15 GMT
"I'm sorry" "Excuse me" "May I help you with that ?"
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Post by autumn on Jul 4, 2020 23:29:06 GMT
More a question than a submission: does anyone refer to dialing a phone number anymore? Anyone younger than we fossils who grew up with rotary phones, that is? or refer to getting a long distance call ? Calling "collect?"
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Post by autumn on Jul 4, 2020 23:29:24 GMT
How about a "party line?"
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 4, 2020 23:33:50 GMT
bobby soxer usually found wearing saddle shoes Bobby soxer is a term for the wildly enthusiastic, teenage female fans of 1940s traditional pop music, in particular that of singer Frank Sinatra. Bobby soxers were usually teenage girls in high schools and colleges, who got their name from the popular bobby socks that they wore. As a teenager, actress Shirley Temple played a stereotypical bobby soxer in the film The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer.
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Post by autumn on Jul 4, 2020 23:37:03 GMT
Vanilla coke (the real deal)
Fountain drink (aka: soda fountain)
Penny candy
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:39:52 GMT
How about a "party line?" Had one of those once in the early '60s (and you had to be careful what you said). I think it's still used, but only in politics: "He always toes the party line."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 4, 2020 23:49:28 GMT
I can hear the dial tone, did you hang up the receiver ?
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