In grammar school
all the kids
called me,
“Fancy Pants”,
but they
weren’t wrong.
.
2.
3.
A lot of people say,
“Go, Google it”
when they want to
look-up something,
but I am from an
older generation,
so, I still say,
“Go, Funk & Wagnall it”.
In grammar school
all the kids
called me,
“Fancy Pants”,
but they
weren’t wrong.
.
2.
3.
A lot of people say,
“Go, Google it”
when they want to
look-up something,
but I am from an
older generation,
so, I still say,
“Go, Funk & Wagnall it”.
I gave away my Encyclopedia Britannica. I’m lost when the power now goes down. Why did I do such a silly thing?……..
I would love a nice set of encyclopedias. My current life does not allow it. Only my most beloved books get a spot in one of my bookcases, the others have to be stacked nearby. Nevertheless, as Groucho Marx said in Night at the Opera “Thanks, Don.”
Books make a room look nice and ‘homely’ on the shelf even if only read rarely……
I’m no school, so I tell people fahgeddaboudit.
I remember encyclopedias were so expensive when I was young. I joined a book club that sent me one a month and I was able to pay for them once a month too. Fancy Pants 😂 Love that!
For some reason my “Thanks, Bob” reply to a previous comment only wants to go under your comment. So, I will say, Thanks, Diane!” to you, too.
Thanks, Bob!
A pair of astute contributions to reflect upon.
And I would agree. Thanks, Pam.
Sometimes the wisdom you imbue cannot be improved with a pithy comment.
Yeah, I’m a Funk & Wagnalls guy myself, but look at the bright side, Geo, you can’t Funk&Wagnall ‘trefology’ but it sure as shootin’ pops up on Google. (P.S. I hesitate to ask what that photo’s all about.)
Check those old encyclopedias again in a few years and see if I am not in there.
(See photo: https://trefology.com/2018/08/27/journal-entree/)
Thanks for reading and commenting, Mich
I have an old set of encyclopedias but they are way too old for finding info🥴
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I know what you mean, my encyclopedia set says, under the Wright Brothers, “fine makers of the Van Cleve Bicycle.”
(1) My parents bought the 1968 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica when I was a young teenager. I’ll never forget the article on space travel that dismissed the likelihood of rocketing to the moon, which occurred the very next year!
(2) There was a brief period of time in the late 1960’s where boys wore bell bottoms pants with a colorful pattern and a button fly. So I definitely was a “fancy pants” back then (for maybe a full school year). Now I just wear faded blue jeans. So I guess I’m a “dull pants” guy.
As a kid I loved lederhosen and I insisted on wearing them all the time. I went through a derby phase, too (Thanks to fascination with silent era comics) But that was as fancy as I got. Thanks, David!!
Please post a photo of you wearing lederhosen and a derby. I googled it but nothing appeared. :D
Haha First of all, never at the same time. Those are two distinct parts of my early days. But I am certain my mom has a couple photos some-where. I will keep a look out.
When I was a child, my parents hid away the Encyclopedia with the S in it ;-)
That is funny! Thanks, Linda
I so used to love chosing an encyclopedia tome, leafing through, reading this and that…
Me, too. My grandparents had built-in bookcases in each room and they filled them with encyclopedias, reference books, the time/life Our American Century books, WWII histories, movie books … and each time I would visit I would pull a stack of them out and bring them to the sun-room to read. I miss all the books … Thanks, Basilike.
When I was in high school, Geo, I only wore black (1970) for some reason. I got the nickname, “Witch” but I often wondered if they were really saying something else! :) Loved your post, but I, too, am curious about that photo.
How odd about the photo. It seems like the usual I post here. Haha. Thanks, LuAnne!
When I was a kid my mom would frequently say, “Go check your Funk and Wagnells”!!!
As Fancy Notions pointed out elsewhere, “Funk & Wagnalls” was a regular punchline on the 1960s TV show, Laugh-In. Which I should have known. But I guess it was not uncommon to drop the name F&W. Thanks, B.
Huh. I wonder if that’s where my mom got it.
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Thank you, Cindy!
Always! 💗
Whenever I see old phone books they just look like amazing bones from the Jurassic period or something, like SO ancient already! And we DID toss our two hard cover dictionaries. And in retrospect, that DOES seem dumb. :)
We used to get a bunch of old Hollywood phone books in a shop where I worked. I loved flipping through them looking for familiar names from the past. Thanks, E
I remember when my Mom once told me to “look it up in my Funk & Wagnalls” and I had no idea what it meant… I never laughed so hard. I do miss going to libraries and getting into any research there. Cheers to a good week ahead.
Oh, the many hours I spent at libraries when I was young. I need to get my card renewed. Thanks, D
My mother told me to Funkin Wagnal a lot. I thought it was a dance.
Haha. I think it should be! Thanks, Janny
We owned “World Books of Knowledge,” taught you everything “…from Aardvark to Zygote…..” My grandfather sometimes called me Mister Bigshot, but in his Western Ukrainian accent it sounded more like Meester Beegshot. —CC
Yeh, I miss my grandparents bookcase of knowledge books. Spent many hours reading them. Thanks, Chagall.
Funk & Wagnalls! I haven’t thought about that for years. We did have the we did have the Funk & Wagnalls Wildlife Encyclopedias in our house. And guess what! A person can look at them here for FREE: https://archive.org/details/funkwagnallswild01burt
Ah, memories!
We had the Disney version at home, which I dearly miss. They were beautifully bound books. Thanks, SS
Is that cup giving you a hard time tref?
I am always disappointed in something (see name on cup). Thanks, cbh
Noted
My eyes are getting bad so I had a hard time picking up the writing. My last eye exam I got the big giant E at the top of the chart. Down hill from there.