Old-timey leave-taking phraseology

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See you in the funny papers!

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 12:27 (two years ago) link

See you in Saint Louie, Screwy!

Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 22 August 2022 12:30 (two years ago) link

See ya later, suckers!

Adios, muchachos!

And stay out!

peace, man, Monday, 22 August 2022 12:35 (two years ago) link

Toodle-pip!

emil.y, Monday, 22 August 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link

To quote Boaby Gillespie.

BOB: Right. Ah'm oot o' here. Joe the Toff. Offski.

Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link

See ya, wouldn't want to be ya!

henry s, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:19 (two years ago) link

Later days, better lays!

henry s, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:20 (two years ago) link

Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin

Bait Kush (Eric H.), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:25 (two years ago) link

Catch you on the flip-side, daddio.

emil.y, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:48 (two years ago) link

hasta la vista, baby

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link

See ya later, alligator.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:54 (two years ago) link

in a while crocodile

the man with the chili in his eyes (ledge), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:00 (two years ago) link

Outskies!

Let's bounce.

peace, man, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link

Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link

23 skidoo!

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:19 (two years ago) link

Let's Audi.

pplains, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:47 (two years ago) link

Honorable mention:
Here’s your hat, what’s your hurry?

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 15:20 (two years ago) link

Make like a banana

Tim, Monday, 22 August 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link

Plant you now, dig you later.

My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 22 August 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link

Off we’re gonna shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo

Josefa, Monday, 22 August 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link

i'd love to have you stay all night, but if ya don't leave, I can't miss ya!

Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link

I'm gonna make like a tree and get out of here.

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link

(to other person leaving with you)

Ready, Freddy?

Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link

see you on the flip flop

andrew m., Monday, 22 August 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link

Ready, Freddy?

also:

Read-eye, Fred-eye?

andrew m., Monday, 22 August 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

in a while crocodile

Some people don’t seem to know this, same as some don’t know that the correct response to “Curiosity killed the cat” is
Satisfaction brought it back.

Old Man Reacts to Cloud (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link

Later, taters.

Take it light.

Hang loose.

And of course

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/936/173/77e.jpg

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:39 (one year ago) link

I think it would be fun to flood the zone not with old-timey ones but with new made up ones.

"Sayonara, capybara!"

"Do svidaniya, Uncle Vanya!"

"Au Revoir, Auguste Renoir!"

"Hasta la vista, Linda Evangelista!"

"Toodle-oo, Scooby Doo!"

"Auf Wiedersehen in the membrane!"

carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:45 (one year ago) link

one year passes...

Don’t take any wooden nickels!

James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 19:17 (five days ago) link

A favorite of my dad when we were teens:

Be good. But if you can't be good, be careful.

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 19:27 (five days ago) link

I bid you all a fond adieu.

completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 19:29 (five days ago) link

Screw you guys, I'm going home

Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 17 December 2024 22:58 (five days ago) link

Right, I'm chipping off now

(assuming 80s Brit slang counts as old-timey)
(or do people still say this?)

it's been almost a decade and I am still enraged about this (Matt #2), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 23:25 (five days ago) link

Smell ya later

m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 01:09 (four days ago) link

Don't let the door yer ass on the way out

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 01:16 (four days ago) link

Stay fresh, cheesebags

epistantophus, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:12 (four days ago) link

See ya round
Like a rissole

bert newtown, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 05:17 (four days ago) link

On the opposite note, here's one for the old-timey greeting phraseology: "Here comes trouble!"

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 19 December 2024 18:54 (three days ago) link

I have absorbed from a friend and now always say, “let’s roll bones”

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 December 2024 19:19 (three days ago) link

_in a while crocodile_

Some people don’t seem to know this, same as some don’t know that the correct response to “Curiosity killed the cat” is
Satisfaction brought it back.


Similarly not everyone knows that the correct response to “No shit, Sherlock” is “Keep digging, Watson”

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 December 2024 19:20 (three days ago) link


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