Old Sayings and Modern Counterparts

[Nettie]

Yesterday, my birthday-celebrating 73yo mother declared my highly active and very chatty, 29 month old daughter must have been vaccinated with a gramophone needle. This led to a two part discussion. 1) how long before such a saying is lost forever? And 2) is there a modern counterpart?

Somehow, I think 'she was slapped with an iTunes gift card' doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

[MaxD]

Not sure about a modern equivalent but I do like your humorous attempt!  I too have wondered about sayings not being understood today.  Someone I was talking to recently mentioned the town of Keynsham at which my almost involuntary reaction was to say "spelled K E Y N S H A M".  My subsequent explanation fell on stony ground!

maxD (of a certain age!)

[Craclyn]

Stony ground here too Max What is K E Y N S H A M ?

[Lostris]

Keynsham rose to fame during the late 1950s and early 1960s when it featured in a long-running series of advertisements on Radio Luxembourg for Horace Batchelor's Infra-draw betting system.[12] To obtain the system, listeners had to write to Batchelor's Keynsham post office box, and Keynsham was always painstakingly spelled out on-air, with Batchelor famously intoning "Keynsham – spelt K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M – Keynsham, Bristol". This was done because the proper pronunciation of Keynsham – "Cane-sham" – does not make the spelling of Keynsham immediately obvious to the radio listener

[MaxD]

Well done Lostris, exactly right!  What many may find difficult to understand is why some of us find it necessary to parrot "spelled...." whenever we hear the name - you had to be there I suppose.

[josey]

Bit off topic but Horace Bachelor's advert was always with the shampoo ones 'Brunitex' for brown hair & was it 'StayBlond' for blonde?

[Craclyn]

Amazing. I listened to Luxembourg in my youth, but cannot remember "Caynsham" at all. Just goes to show how selective memory can be.

[Treetotal]

I remember chanting Keynsham and then spelling it out along with the radio and it became a mantra.
 How about....Pot calling kettle black....modern equivalent....Pot noodle calling Kettle chips junk 
Carol

[eadaoin]

How would you explain my mother's mantra . . "if ifs and ands were pots and pans we wouldn't need tinkers to mend them"
(with apologies to the politically correct among us!)