Words you don't hear very often any more

r.magnay · Post by **r.magnay** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:14 am

I always remember peanut paste as opposed to peanut butter, people continually insist that it has always been peanut butter, but I am sure it was only peanut butter in the 'Dennis The Menace' comics but peanut paste in our normal language! I can also remember thinking what the hell is a pizza? they were often mentioned in those comics to, but I had never heard of nor had any idea what they were!..........yeah yeah, I lived a sheltered life I know.

Bob Pacey · Post by **Bob Pacey** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:11 am

I reckon you are right Ross.

Was always peanut paste for me and things like Fries instead of chips annoys as well.

I had a young bloke say to me " Hey Bro can I hitch a ride on your buggy "

Maybe I'm a grumpy old B but I told him no and that he might have had a better chance if he had called me MATE !

Bob

Wendy Seddon · Post by **Wendy Seddon** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:06 am

Cigarette lollies.

I can still taste the slightly musky flavour. Used to walk with my pop to the shops to get the paper and he'd buy us a packet of cigarette lollies. We thought we were suave and tried to emulate the movie stars, blowing pretend billows of smoke into the air.

Post by **Rimeriter** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:44 am

"G'day" Owly,
You would also remember - musk sticks and fairy floss ?
Jim.

Post by **Heather** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:28 am

Musk sticks, aniseed balls and cigarette lollies - mmmmm. Lots of childhood memories there.

Wendy Seddon · Post by **Wendy Seddon** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:52 am

...and wagon wheels that seemed to be the size of wagon wheels!
...and playing under the hose!

...and my father's favourite - 'taking the pledge'
(he even has a certificate!)

Post by **Heather** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:17 pm

Oh I remember playing under the hose!

One of my favourite pictures of my youngest daughter - when she was maybe 14mths old, is of her playing with a hose - she was totally soaked and had the most impish look on her face - and now she is a feral 16 year old who stays in her room, speaks a language no one else understands and only addresses me if she wants something! Memories!

Heather

Post by **Rimeriter** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:48 pm

Dinkum. Well, not around Sydney.

Certainly not - Fair Dinkum.

Jim.

Dave Smith · Post by **Dave Smith** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:58 pm

X mas,Xmas?

I ask you why take the Christ out of Christmas? Just lazy I guess!

TTFN

Wendy Seddon · Post by **Wendy Seddon** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:13 pm

Dave, Marty...

Here's something Nev might have contributed....

XMAS:

The "-mas" part is from the Latin-derived Old English word for "Mass", while the "X" comes from the Greek letter Chi, which is the first letter of the Greek word Χριστός, translated as "Christ".

There is a common misconception that the word Xmas is a secular attempt to remove the religious tradition from Christmas by taking the "Christ" out of "Christmas".

ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

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