SAY WHAT AGAIN?- RETRO SLANG PART 2

Slang fresh from the doity (dirty) 1930's

Abyssinia       I'll be seeing you

Aces, snazzy, hot, nobby, smooth, sweet, swell, keen,       cool Very good

All the way       Chocolate cake or fudge with ice cream

All wet              No good

Ameche, horn, blower     Telephone

Apple        Any big town or city

Babe, broad, dame, doll, frail, twist, muffin, kitten Woman

Baby     Glass of milk

Bean shooter, gat, rod, roscoe, heater, convincer    Gun

Beat       Broke

Behind the grind     Behind in one's studies

Big house, hoosegow     Prison

Bleed          to extort or blackmail

Blinkers, lamps, pies, shutters, peepers    Eyes

Blow your wig     Become very excited

Booze, hooch, giggle juice, mule Whiskey   Alcohol

Brodie     A mistake

Brunos, goons, hatchetmen, torpedoes, trigger men   Hired gunmen and other tough guys

Bulge    Having the advantage

Bumping gums, booshwash    Talk about nothing useful

Butter and egg fly, hot mama, sweet mama, sweet patootie, dish, looker, tomato  An attractive woman

Butter and egg man    The money man, the man with the bankroll

Buzzer    Police badge

Cabbage, lettuce, kale, folding green, long green.    color of money

Cadillac     One ounce packet of cocaine or heroin

Canary   A female vocalist

Cats or alligators     Fans of swing music

Cave       One's house or apartment

Check or checker     A dollar

Chicago overcoat     Coffin

Chicago typewriter, chopper, gat "Tommy Gun",     Thompson Submachine Gun

Chisel      Swindle, cheat, work an angle

Cinder dick     Railroad detective

City juice, dog soup     Glass of water

Clam-bake     Wild swing

Clip joint     Night club or gambling joint where patrons get flimflammed

Copper   Policeman

Crumb    A fink, a loser by social standards

Crust   To insult

Curve    Disappointment

Cute as a bug's ear    Very cute

Dead hoofer or cement mixer     Bad dancer

Dick, shamus, gumshoe, flatfoot     Detective

Dig     Think hard or understand

Dil-ya-ble   A phone call

Dingy   Silly

Dizzy with a dame   Very much in love with a woman, sometimes at great risk to themselves, especially if she's someone else's moll

Dog house   String bass

Doggy    Well dressed but in a self conscious way

Dollface    Name for a woman when a man is pleading his case or apologizing

Doss  Sleep

Drilling, plugging, throwing lead, filling someone with daylight, giving someone lead poisoning   Shooting a gun (at someone)

Drumsticks, pins, pillars, stems, uprights, get away sticks, gams   Legs

Dukes, paws, grabbers, meat hooks     hands

Egg   A crude person

Egg harbor   Free dance

Eggs in coffee    Run smoothly

Evil   In a bad mood

Face   A Caucasian

Fem, filly, flame, flirt, fuss    Constant girl companion to a boy

Five spot, a Lincoln     $5 bill

Genius     An extremely, unbelievably, dumb persons

Gin mill   Place that serves liquor, sometimes illegally

G-man    Federal agent, term coined by Machine Gun Kelly

Gobble-pipe   Saxophone

Golddigger    Attractive young woman actively hunting for a rich man

Greaseball, half portion, wet smack, wet sock, jelly bean   Unpopular person

Grifter   A con man or woman

Gumming the works   To cause something to run less smoothly

Gunsel   Gunman with a hint toward being a reckless loose cannon or young homosexual (insult)

Hard boiled   Tough

Hocks, plates   Feet

Honey cooler   A kiss

Hop, rag, jolly up, romp, wingding   Dance or party

Hotsquat   Electric chair

House dick, house peeper    House detective

Joe   A average guy

Joed   Tired

Juicy   Enjoyable

K balling    Salvaging parts from junked rail cars to rebuild others

Keen   Very Good

Kibosh   Squelch

Kippy    Neat

Low down   All the information

Lunger    Someone with tuberculosis

Make tracks, dangle     Leave in a hurry, leave aburptly

Meat wagon   Ambulance

Micky, Micky Finn   Drink spiked with a knock out drugs

Mitt me kid!   Congratulate me

Nuts!    Telling someone they are full of nonsense

Okie   Migrant worker from Oklahoma

Off the cob    Corny

Packing heat, wearing iron   Carrying a gun

Pally    Friend, chum, sometimes used sarcasticly

Patsy     Innocent man framed for a criminal charge

Pill    Disagreeable person

Pip   Attractive person

Pitching woo,   making whoopee Making love

Platter  A record

Plenty rugged   Big and strong

Pachuco   Young Mexican living in the US

Ring-a-ding-ding    A good time at a party

Rot gut, bathtub gin  Prohibition alcohol usually made in back rooms and of low quality

Sawbuck   $10 bill

Scat singer    A vocalist who improvises lyrics, substituting nonsense syllables for words

Scrub   Poor student

Shake a leg    Hurry up

Skin tickler   A drummer

Slugburger   Adding day-old bread to ground beef.

Slip me five   Shake my hand

Smooth   Well dressed without qualification

Snipe   Cigarette

Sourdough   Conterfeit money

Speakeasy   Bar disguised as something else or hidden behind an unmarked door

Squat   Nothing

Stool pigeon, snitch   Someone who informs to the police

Suds, salad, dough, moolah, rhino, bacon (as in bring home the bacon), bread   Money

Take a powder, blow, split, scram, drift    Leave

Taking the rap, taking the fall    Taking responsibility for someone else's crime or crimes

The high hat     A response in which one excludes another with irreverence and intent to offend

The Kiss off   The final goodbye as in exile or death

Tin   Small change

Tin can, flivver    A car

Tin ear, Ickie   Someone who did not like popular music

Togged to the bricks    Dressed up

Trip for biscuits   A task that yields nothing

Twit   Fool or Idiot

Whacky    Crazy

What's your story, morning glory? What do you mean by that?

Wheat   Person unused to city ways

Yo!   Yes

You and me both   I agree

"You shred it, wheat"   You said it

GIGGLE WATER RECIPIE

Someday's you just need a drink!

THE FLAPPER

Ingredients:

1 Part Rum

1 Part Vermouth

dash Angostura Bitters

 

Mixing Instruction

Pour the rum and vermouth into a cocktail glass. Sweeten to taste. Add a dash of Angostura bitters. Garnish with a maraschino cherry and a slice of orange.

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL BEAUTY TREATMENT #2

TWINKLE TOES

FOOT TREATMENT

After a  day or even a week of hard work, be it in the office or at home, our feet have been given the run around and need some reviving for the weekend especially if you plan to go out dancing!

What you need:

1 bowl or basin big enough for both of your feet.

2-3 cups of olive oil (warmed)

1/2 cup of coarse sea salt (Approx 1/4 cup for each foot)

1/4 cup of sweet almond oil with a few drops of peppermint essential oil or 1/4 cup of unscented lotion with a few drops of essential oil (optional)

Towel

Pillows, Music, and/or a book (Optional)


Instructions:

Heat the oil in the microwwave or on the stove until it is warm. Pour wamed olive oil over your feet in bowl/basin and soak for a few minutes. Take coarse sea salt and gently but firmly scrub your feet all over sloughing off the dead dry skin. Rinse with warm water and pat dry. For an additional pick me up, rub the sweet almond oil with peppermint all over you feet, prop you feep up on a pillow for half and hour and relax. You will be doing the Lindy Hop in no time!


Time Required: 1 hour ( 30 minutes for prep and treatment and 30 minutes of foot rest)

30 minutes (treatment only)

SPOTLIGHT: MR.HUBBA HUBBA OF THE MONTH

HERB JEFFRIES

THE ORIGINAL SINGING COWBOY

 When it comes to singing in westerns,before Roy Rogers, there was Herb Jeffries. Herbert "Herb" Jeffries known in his western movie heyday as "The Bronze Buckaroo"was the star of several all black westerns and loaned his voice to a uniqiue style of music that was a blend of county western and jazz better known as "Western Swing". In addition to singing his own compositions in the westerns he starred in, he also performed his own stunts as the character Bob Blake and sang with the Duke Ellington Orchestra during the 1940's. Herb's rich barritone voice  helped to sell 50 million copies of the song Flamingo, the most popular song of his career. Herb has enjoyed a long career with  accompanying honors  that include a star on the hollywood walk of fame and  his induction into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2004. At the age of 96, the still active and might I say still handsome entertainer still perfoms as various venues throughout the year. Having personaly met Mr.Jeffries and enjoyed seeing him perform, I can tell you first hand, he is a class act and as My Mr. Hubba Hubba of the month, Herb, I salute you!

Say what? -Retro Slang

Retro Phrases & Slang

23 Skiddoo- To get going, leave immediately

All Wet - Describes an erroneous idea or individual, as in, "he's all wet."

Applesauce - an explative; same as horsefeathers, As in "Ah applesauce!"

Ankle biter- child

Are you writing a book?- You are asking too many questions

Baby-Cute Guy or Girl

Bad News- Depressing Person

The Bee's Knees-Excellent, Outstanding

Big Cheese - The most important or influential person; boss. Same as big shot.

Big Daddy- Older Man

Bluenose - An excessively puritanical person, a prude, Creator of "the Blue Nozzle Curse."

Broad- Woman, Dame

Bump Off - To murder, To kill.

Carry a Torch - To have a crush on someone.

Cat's Meow/Cats Pajamas - Something splendid or stylish; The best or greatest, wonderful.

Cheaters-Eyeglasses

Cut the gas- Be Quiet!

Daddy-o -- a man; used to address a hipster or beatnik

Darb - An excellent person or thing (as in "the Darb" - a person with money who can be relied on to pay the check).

Dame- A Woman

Drugstore Cowboy - a guy that hangs around on a street corner trying to pick up girls.

Dumb Dora - a stupid female.

Fall Guy - Victim of a frame.

Flat Tire - A dull witted, insipid, disappointing date. Same as pill, pickle, drag, rag, oilcan.

Frame - To give false evidence, to set up someone.

Gams - A woman's legs.

Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol.

Gin Mill - An establishment where hard liquor is sold; bar.

Girl Friday- Secretary /Administrative Assistant

Go whitsle up a rope- Leave me alone

Hard Boiled - a tough, strong guy.

Heebie-Jeebies - The jitters

Hepcat/Hipster -- an innovative and trendy person

High-Hat - To snub.

Hooch - Bootleg liquor

Hoofer - Dancer.

Horsefeathers - an explative; same usage as applesauce.

Hotsy-Totsy - Pleasing.

Jalopy - Old car.

Joint - A club, usually selling alcohol.

Juke joint -- a casual and inexpensive establishment with drinking, dancing, and blues music, typically in the southeastern United States

Keen - Attractive or appealing.

Keeping up with the Joneses -- competing to have a lifestyle or socioeconomic status comparable to one's neighbors

Kisser - Mouth.

Line - Insincere flattery.

Lounge Lizard - a horny dog.

Make the scene-Attend an event

Moll - A gangster's girl.

Ossified - a drunk person.

Pinch - To arrest.

Playboy- Player

Poindexter- A Really Smart Person

Pushover - A person easily convinced or seduced.

Ritzy - Elegant (from the hotel).

Scram - Ask someone to leave immediately.

Square- boring or nerdy person

Sheba - A woman with sex appeal ( Queen of Sheba)

Sheik - A man with sex appeal (from the Valentino movies)

Sitting in the hot seat -- in a highly uncomfortable or embarrassing situation

Smooch- Kiss

Soitently- Sure!

Speakeasy - An illicit bar selling bootleg liquor.

Spiffy - An elegant appearance.

Spread Out!- Get out of the way! Give me some room! Stop crowding me!

Stuck On - Having a crush on.

Sugar Daddy-usually older male who is dating a usually younger female and giving her a lot of gifts and money like a father might give to his daughter

Swanky - Ritzy.

Swell- Wonderful.

Upchuck - To vomit when one has drunk too much.

Wise guy- A Smart Alec

Whoopee - To have a good time.

DID YOU HEAR??- FROM A PASTORS WIFE

This was written in 1894 by Ruth Smythers, the wife of Rev L.D. Smythers upon reading this I thought, are they serious?

ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE

To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding

day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive

side, there is the wedding itself, in which the bride is the central attraction in a

beautiful and inspiring ceremony, symbolizing her triumph in securing a male to provide

for all her needs for the rest of her life. On the negative side, there is the wedding

night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first

time the terrible experience of sex.


At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth.



Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and

pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage

of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE,

GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper

marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.



On the other hand, the bride’s terror need not be extreme.



While sex it at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured, and

has been by women since the beginning of time, and is compensated for by the monogamous

home and by the children produced through it.

It is useless, in most cases, for the bride to prevail upon the groom to forego the

sexual initiation. While the ideal husband would be one who would approach his bride only

at her request and only for the purpose of begetting offspring, such nobility and

unselfishness cannot be expected from the average man.


Most men, if not denied, would demand sex almost every day. The wise bride will permit

a maximum of two brief sexual experiences weekly during the first months of marriage. As

time goes by she should make every effort to reduce theis frequency.

Feigned illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife’s best friends in this

matter. Arguments, nagging, scolding, and bickering also prove very effective, if used in

the late evening about an hour before the husband would normally commence his seduction.

Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying and

discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should expect to have

reduced sexual contacts to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to

once a month by the end of the fifth year of marriage.


By their tenth anniversary many wives have managed to complete their child bearing and

have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual contacts with the husband. By

this time she can depend upon his love for the children and social pressures to hold the

husband in the home.

Just as she should be ever alert to keep the quantity of sex as low as possible, the

wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of sexual contacts.

Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if given half a chance, would engage in quite

a variety of the most revolting practices. These practices include among others performing

the normal act in abnormal positions; mouthing the female body; and offering their own

vile bodies to be mouthed in turn. Nudity, talking about sex, reading stories about sex,

viewing photographs and drawings depicting or suggesting sex are the obnoxious habits the

male is likely to acquire if permitted.

A wise bride will make it the goal never to allow her husband to see her unclothed

body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her. Sex, when it cannot be

prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness. Many women have found it useful to

have thick cotton nightgowns for themselves and pajamas for their husbands. These should

be donned in separate rooms. They need not be removed during the sex act. Thus, a minimum

of flesh is exposed.

Once the bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she should lie

quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into the room she should

make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he take this as a sign of encouragement.

She should let him grope in the dark. There is always the hope that he will stumbel and

incur some slight injury which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.

When he finds her, the wife should lie as still as possible. Bodily motion on her part

could be interpreted as sexual excitement by the optimistic husband. If he attempts to

kiss her on the lips she should turn her head slightly so that the kiss falls harmlessly

on her cheek instead. If he attempts to kiss her hand, she should make a fist. If he lifts

her gown and attempts to kiss her anyplace else she should quickly pull the gown back in

place, spring from the bed, and announce that nature calls her to the toilet. This will

generally dampen his desire to kiss in the forbidden territory.



If the husband attempts to seduce her with lascivious talk, the wise wife will suddenly

remember some trivial non-sexual question to ask him. Once he answers she should keep the

conversation going, no matter how frivolous it may seem at the time.


Eventually, the husband will learn that if he insists on having sexual contact, he must

get on with it without amorous embellishment. The wise wife will allow him to pull the

gown up no farther than the waist, and only permit him to open the front of his pajamas to

thus make connection.


She will be absolutely silent or babble about her housework while his huffing and

puffing away. Above all, she will lie perfectly still and never under any circumstances

grunt or groan while the act is in progress. As soon as the husband has completed the act,

the wise wife will start nagging him about various minor tasks she wishes him to perform

on the morrow. Many men obtain a major portion of their sexual satisfaction from the

peaceful exhaustion immediately after the act is over. Thus the wife must insure that

there is no peace in this period for him to enjoy. Otherwise, he might be encouraged to

soon try for more.


One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that the husband’s

home, school, church, and social environment have been working together all through his

life to instill in him a deep sense of guilt in regards to his sexual feelings, so that he

comes to the marriage couch apologetically and filled with shame, already half cowed and

subdued. The wise wife seizes upon this advantage and relentlessly pursues her goal first

to limit, later to annihilate completely her husband’s desire for sexual expression.

SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL BEAUTY TREATMENT 1

JUST ROSY FACE MASK

1/4 cup of plain greek style yougurt

1 Tablespoon of Honey (preferably Organic)

1 Tablespoon of Rosewater (You can get from a local middle easten store and some supermakets carry it)

2-3 fresh non-pesticide rose petals,  (torn into pieces)


Instuctions:

Blend all the ingredients together and apply to face let mask sit for 20 minutes and rinse with tepid water.

Option: Spray your face with rosewater before you apply your moisturizer.

Time Needed- 30 minutes
Prep Time:10 minutes

Sit time with mask: 20 minutes



SMOOCHES!