Lost Words From My Youth This should bring back some fun memories – if you’re old enough! Murgatroyd! Do you remember that word? Would you believe that some spell-checkers do not recognize the word Murgatroyd? Heavens to Murgatroyd! The other day, a not-so-elderly (I say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a […]
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California Fleein’ (Beach Boys Parody) Compliments of the Babylon Bee. What do four handsome guys gotta do to flee California? This parody of The Beach Boys’ “California Dreamin” is a totally tubular cover of The Mamas & the Papas and the Beach Boys singing about California’s legendary brown streets, iconic muggings, and world-famous traffic. I’ve
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My Heroes Were Cowboys My Heroes Were Cowboys I was born in the early 1940s and loved watching the cowboy shows of the 1950s on TV. Back then, there was a prevalent theme in all of them: The Good Guy Always Won and The Bad Guy Always Lost. These shows did not glorify crime in
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How Did We Survive Growing Up In The 50s And 60s? First of all, many of us survived being born to and raised by mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us and then exposed us to second-hand smoke on an ongoing basis. There were all sorts of other things we dealt with that
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The Top 50 Things You’ll Hear A Southern Say For those of you who may need a little help understanding the slang of a Southern, I made a list of the top 50 phrases and sayings, along with their translations. 1. Bless your heart. My favorite saying. It is an empathetic phrase that is usually
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