{"id":44749,"date":"2020-05-23T16:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=44749"},"modified":"2021-12-19T06:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-12-19T06:49:05","slug":"lost-for-words-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/lost-for-words-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;LOST FOR WORDS&#8221; \u2013 By Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #18edd4;\">\u00a0&#8220;LOST FOR WORDS&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 By Des Kelly<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2h7XPx1XJQo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Explains why English is such a strange but fascinating language. Certain Phrases, Prose, Quotes, and sometimes, even Words that are &#8220;coined&#8221; by Wordsmiths such as some Authors are prone to do at times, appear at random during our lives, only to disappear, as time goes by.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Once again, while the actual author of this &#8220;piece&#8221; is unknown, eLanka thanks both Keith Bennett &amp; Maxwell Gerlach for sending this article in. I am sure that our readers will remember some of these nostalgic writings, because if they do not, I shall be lost for words.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Desmond-Kelly-9.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Desmond Kelly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">(Editor-in-Chief) eLanka.\u00a0<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Mergatroyd!\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>Do you remember that word?\u00a0 Would you believe the spell-checker did not recognize the word Mergatroyd?\u00a0 Heavens to Mergatroyd!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>The other day a not so elderly (I<\/b><b>\u2019d\u00a0say 75) lady said something to her son about driving a<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Jalopy;<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>and he looked at her quizzically and said, &#8220;What the heck is a Jalopy?&#8221;\u00a0 He had never heard of the word jalopy!\u00a0 She knew she was old &#8230; But not that old.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>Well, I hope you are<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Hunky Dory<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>after you read this and chuckle.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology.\u00a0 These phrases included:\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Don&#8217;t touch that dial, Carbon copy, You sound like a broken record, and Hung out to dry.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><b>Back in the olden days we had a lot of<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>moxie<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>.\u00a0 We&#8217;d put on<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>our best bib and tucker<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>,<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>to<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><b><i>straighten up and fly right.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><b><i><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Heavens to Betsy!<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Gee whillikers!<\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><b><i>Jumping Jehoshaphat!<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Holy Moley!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 20px;\"><b>We were<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b><i>in like Flynn<\/i><\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>and<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #18edd4;\"><b><i>living the life of Riley<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>; and even a regular guy couldn&#8217;t accuse us of being a<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b><i>knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill.<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><b><i>Not for all the tea in China<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\"><b>Back in the olden days, life used to be<\/b><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>swell,<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>but when&#8217;s the last time anything was swell?\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><b><i>Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A.; of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, and pedal pushers.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><b><i>Oh, my aching back!\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #18edd4;\"><b>\u00a0<\/b><b><i>Kilroy was here,<\/i><\/b><\/span><b><span style=\"color: #18edd4;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>but he isn&#8217;t anymore.<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;Well, I&#8217;ll be a monkey&#8217;s uncle!&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Or,<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">&#8220;This is a fine kettle of fish!&#8221;<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Poof,<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>go the words of our youth, the words we&#8217;ve left behind.\u00a0 We blink, and they&#8217;re gone.\u00a0 Where have all those great phrases gone?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Long gone:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>The milkman did it.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><em>Don&#8217;t forget to pull the chain.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\"><strong><em>Knee high to a grasshopper.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong><em>Well, Fiddlesticks!<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>I&#8217;ll see you in the funny papers.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><strong><em>\u00a0<span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/strong><strong><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Don&#8217;t take any wooden nickels.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><em>Wake up and smell the roses.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">See ya later,<\/span> alligator!\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>Okidoki.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\"><strong>You&#8217;ll notice they left out<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Monkey Business&#8221;!!!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #00ff00;\"><strong><em>WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50&#8217;S &#8230; NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN .. WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS:\u00a0 LIVING IN THE PEACEFUL AND COMFORTABLE TIMES, CREATED FOR US BY THE &#8220;GREATEST GENERATION!<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;LOST FOR WORDS&#8221;\u00a0\u2013 By Des Kelly &nbsp; Explains why English is such a strange but fascinating language. 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