Pickles by Brian Crane for November 17, 2022

twenty-three skiddo (I personally ne’er heard of “pell-mell”)

Earl better hope that Nelson doesn’t misunderstand it as Lickety Spit.

Stat, pronto

Quick like a bunny! (No, not Opal’s bunny slippers)

Anybody else remember PDQ Bach?

Pell-mell (pèle mêle ?) doesn’t mean “fast”…

Hop to it , Turn to , put a wiggle in it …

Is ASAP really one he wouldn’t have heard of before?

Shake a leg!

How “contubrious” of him! (Hint: Don’t bother looking it up …)

Nelson thinks Grandpa is in the Twilight Zone!

I remember people using all these sayings!

One, slightly modified, that Nelson might get: “Quick as The Flash!”

Pell Mell is sometimes spelled pall mall!

Every time I see “pell mell”, I think of those cigarettes, Pall Mall. Both my Dad and first husband smoked ’em. Yeah, and both are now dead.

And my Pop-pop’s favorite, “NOW!”

What I tell my cats: “Sometime TODAY!”

Nothing ages faster than slang.

Time for Nelson to skedadle,vamoose,scram,amscray, take a hike.

Pitter patter, let’s get at ’er.

Earl…did you actually think Nelson understood ANY of those words?

“Tell us, in your own words, what happened.” If I use my OWN words, you won’t understand, so I’ll use the words everyone else does.

Scamper pronto!

Forthwith

Vocabulary is the major difference between current generations and those preceding. What used to be a rich and varied source for conversation and literature has become a stream of clichés and emojis that have about as much beauty and depth as a sidewalk puddle. And they last about as long.

Haven’t heard Pell-Mell in forever.

And eventually, it’ll be nickel waiting on a dime…for you young people, those are coins that people could use to buy things like gumballs…you know, important stuff like that.

Kid needs to get OUT more…… or maybe read a BOOK.????

Toot Suite!

Yesterday!

My Wife hates the “On time is late!”

Somebody get this kid some P. G. Wodehouse…

As I would tell my son, “Now!” Back in the day there was the slang “with the quickness” but that didn’t last long.

PDQ is what I heard most as a child.

LOL! Nelson tattled and Earls in trouble now! ☺️☺️☺️

Mos dos Nelson!

as David Mitchell so rightly pointed out, all words are “made up”

Yep, we OFs sure talk funny.

Show some Moxie.

Around the corner, Lickity-split, beautiful car, wasn’t it — Burma Shave. One of my favorites.

Things were “groovy” or “boss”.

It’s okay. The rest of the world can copy him and adopt his words.

“Mach schnell!”

Get real kid…get going!

The child needs to read some old time books.

Piegon

Spit spot for an example using ablaut reduplication.

You’re the cat’s pajamas Nelson!

I’m sure there was an earlier time when Nelson said exactly the same thing — “Grampa’s making up his own words again!” — just because Earl said “newspaper.”

Is Earl too old, or Nelson too young?

Check him for a stroke?

Not his made-up words, Nelson. Some of the greatest comedians of the 30’s and 40’d made those up.

Hop to it…quick like a bunny…burn rubber…

Nelson should ask him why is “bomb” good now, when it used to be bad.