Oh, the 'is' was the best part.
I read a story about one of the first times reporters were allowed into China during a visit by Henry Kissinger. The Chinese were doing their best to pick up English and repeated everything they heard. When the media were packing up, one of the Chinese helpers came over and said, "Here's your fVcking camera." Only doing his best to be precise.
Does anybody still say, "Ye gods?"
What about "cats and chicks?"
And "daddio?"
Ye gods and little fishes! There are more expressions here than I can shake a stick at! Okey dokey, I gotta go. And Bob's your uncle!
Ta.
Heavens to Betsy.
Fiddlesticks.
These are old ones that I've always heard.
I used to call my father daddio.
"Hey Daddio".
"Hi Sugarpie."
That was our greeting until he died.
Don't say cats, I'm more of a dude person, but chicks is still part of the vocabulary. And "Yikes!"
All those flat top cats with their teenage queens
Rockin and rollin in their red and blue jeans
- Little Richard
I actually occasionally say egads (and gadzooks). Is egads a spin off ye gods?
I don't know, but I still think it sounds neat.
That sounds pretty neat to me too, Eva.
edgarblythe wrote:Does anybody still say, "Ye gods?"
What about "cats and chicks?"
And "daddio?"
I remember reading some guy (who was already in a relationship) trying (unsuccessfully) to chat up some girl by saying, 'Ye gods, you're adorable.' How cringeworthy in such a context!
I think that egads is a corruption of ye gods, just as 'zounds' is a corruption of 'God's wounds.' I'll check that up to be sure.
Phoenix32890 wrote:I don't say, "Ye Gods", but have been known to utter, "Egads", or even "Egadzooks" I haven't heard the word "daddio" since ca. 1959! 
'Egadzooks' is a really interesting word... well, it's better than 'Ye Gods'; 'Ye Gods' is just.. weird.
Currently, some gang members call the main man 'daddio'; I couldn't help but laugh when I heard:
'I don't know nothing about the Daddio'
'Where is the daddio, anyways?
'I don't know.'
'That's porno.
That's where the expression came from? I always thought that it was a play on the word 'daddy.'
That really proves that one learns at least one new thing every day...
I still call Loonies a dollar (for the Canadians).
Phoenix, now I'm curious... did Daddio/Daddy-O come from Dadier (what an interesting name for a character in a movie, don't you think?) or was daddy-o already a term used at the time and just applied to the teacher to razz him?
eoe- Darned if I can remember. I do think that the film started that expression, although I would not swear to it.
Blackboard Jungle, although it was not a particularly great film (it was based on a book, The Blackboard Jungle, by Evan Hunter) was somewhat of a breakthrough. It was the granddaddy of the "kids take over the school" films.
The middle fifties was a time of great social change, a precursor of the 1960's. The music in the film, "Rock Around the Clock" was, I believe, one of the first, if not the first, use of a rock song in a popular film. At the time, the movie was considered very controversial. Young people who watch the movie now, would probably scratch their heads, and wonder what the fuss was about!
