Sayings on the show you don't hear anymore

[scottp]

The replacement for smudge pots: In the late 1960s, a trip to our dentist (in La Habra Calif.) meant passing by "propellers" by the side of the road (alongside a citrus orchard.) "Wind machines" my parents called them... on masts about 30'-40' high.
A couple of high schools in San Dimas still have an annual football game, for a Smudge Pot trophy.

[epeterd]

Windmills keep down frost? Weird.

Another phrase I heard today on Adventures of Frank Race: "Leave us not..." I don't ever remember hearing that on Jack Benny before, but I've heard it on other shows. Just a weird sounding thing to me.

peter

[Maxwell]

Windmills keep down frost? Weird.

Another phrase I heard today on Adventures of Frank Race: "Leave us not..." I don't ever remember hearing that on Jack Benny before, but I've heard it on other shows. Just a weird sounding thing to me.

peter

That's a phrase that I usually associate with New York City types like Sheldon Leonard. In fact when I think of that phrase, I hear it in his voice. I don't think it was commonly used anywhere else except in scripts with characters who were New Yorkers.

[grittys457]

Heard an operator saying "the line doesn't answer" a few times when nobody picked up on the other end. Never heard it said like that.

[kbbl]

I've noticed that they use "high" quite a bit when referring to being drunk, obviously different than the high meaning on drugs we use now.

I have heard this in early Bill Cosby routines too. I have to remind myself of the era, when hearing it said.

[Mandolynn]

The term "logey" or maybe it's "loguey" meaning run-down, tired or sickly... I hear it a lot on OTR, and I think it was one of the symptoms that SYMPathy Soothing Syrup was supposed to cure.

[Hank the All-Nite DJ]

"I'm all in" meaning you're really tired

[helloagain]

Here's another one meaning exhausted: "I'm all fagged out". Believe it or not, I heard it in a Laurel & Hardy short.

[Maxwell Stroud]

Here's another one meaning exhausted: "I'm all fagged out". Believe it or not, I heard it in a Laurel & Hardy short.

That was a pretty common expression, I've heard in alot of old programs. It's even used by Alex the droog in A Clockwork Orange.

[helloagain]

Also, the word 'fag' was slang for cigarette. But I don't recall ever hearing this word on the Benny program.

[Hank the All-Nite DJ]

I've also heard Don Wilson instruct listeners to "fold in" a quantity of ingredients into their Jell-O mixture

Obviously it's another way to say "mix in," but you just never hear it (unless it's a phrase only chefs and cooks use)

[helloagain]

To fold in ingredients is a special procedure, different from regular mixing.

[Gerry O.]

I've noticed something on the Benny show of March 27, 1938....That's the one where Jack does his show from New York and Fred Allen, Kate Smith, Robert Ripley, Harry Von Zell and Abe Lyman are the guests....

For some reason the word "grand" is used quite a bit on that show. Jack talks about his guests' appearances being "a grand gesture", Jack tells Fred Allen that he saw Ed Wynn's Broadway show, adding "That was grand", and even Harry Von Zell gets into the act. During one of his commercials he says "That's why Jell-O tastes so grand".

It's strange because "grand" isn't used nearly as much (if at all) in other Benny broadcasts from the same period. The word "grand" sounds a bit strange and unnatural being used so much within a half-hour program.

[helloagain]

You would think when Jack used the word he'd be referring to money.

[scottp]

To fold in ingredients is a special procedure, different from regular mixing.

I have enough trouble folding shirts and towels... I'm not even going to try folding pudding!