Showing posts with label outlaws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label outlaws. Show all posts
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Acid Attack!!!
The Hope Chest is collecting some great old-timey newspaper stories about acid attacks by various people (including mothers, fathers, random strangers) on various others (including draftees, children, and horses).
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Old-timey Slang of the Day
chickie: basically, the same as "cheese it!" as in, "Chickie, it's the cops!"
Monday, March 31, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Old-timey Slang of the Day
This one requires the full dictionary definition again. It's another lovely phrase. I haven't heard this one before, even in old movies, though it has the ring of 1930s gangster movie lingo. The old dictionary I found this in didn't list dates for the period in which this word was in use, so maybe it predates the age of Edward G. Robinson and Jimmy Cagney.
clutch the gummy: "To fail; to be left to take the blame; to be cheated. Orig. on model of 'hold the bag' = to clutch the gunny bag or sack; reinforced by 'gummy' = sticky."
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
ABC Links (mostly Wikipedia, mostly awesome)
A. Recently, a parachute possibly belonging to the infamous D.B. Cooper was found up in Washington State. (On a side note, while I've grown very tired of the increasingly ridiculous show Prison Break over the last two seasons, the first season was kinda good, largely because it featured D.B. Cooper as a character).
B. Also got this today. Now he would have been an interesting Vice President.
C. Speaking of Vice Presidents, my brother sent me this a while back. Richard Mentor Johnson had the best/worst campaign slogan ever: "Rumpsey Dumpsey, Colonel Johnson killed Tecumseh." I guess it's not as bad as "Whip Inflation Now."
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