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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 (four years ago)

See you in Saint Louie, Screwy!

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

See ya later, suckers!

Adios, muchachos!

And stay out!

― peace, man, Monday, 22 August 2022 12:35 (four years ago)

Toodle-pip!

― emil.y, Monday, 22 August 2022 12:39 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:16 (four years ago)

See ya, wouldn't want to be ya!

― henry s, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:19 (four years ago)

Later days, better lays!

― henry s, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:20 (four years ago)

Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin

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

Catch you on the flip-side, daddio.

― emil.y, Monday, 22 August 2022 13:48 (four years ago)

hasta la vista, baby

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

See ya later, alligator.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 13:54 (four years ago)

in a while crocodile

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

Outskies!

Let's bounce.

― peace, man, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:17 (four years ago)

Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-a4qWCtIg

― Three Rings for the Elven Bishop (Dan Peterson), Monday, 22 August 2022 14:19 (four years ago)

23 skidoo!

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

Let's Audi.

― pplains, Monday, 22 August 2022 14:47 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

Make like a banana

― Tim, Monday, 22 August 2022 15:24 (four years ago)

Plant you now, dig you later.

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

Off we’re gonna shuffle, shuffle off to Buffalo

― Josefa, Monday, 22 August 2022 17:13 (four years ago)

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 (four years ago)

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

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:19 (four years ago)

(to other person leaving with you)

Ready, Freddy?

― Toonie Orlando (Neanderthal), Monday, 22 August 2022 17:19 (four years ago)

see you on the flip flop

― andrew m., Monday, 22 August 2022 19:12 (four years ago)

Ready, Freddy?

also:

Read-eye, Fred-eye?

― andrew m., Monday, 22 August 2022 19:13 (four years ago)

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 (three years ago)

Later, taters.

Take it light.

Hang loose.

And of course

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― carne asana (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 March 2023 22:39 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

one year passes...

Don’t take any wooden nickels!

― James Carr Thief (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 19:17 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

I bid you all a fond adieu.

― completely suited to the horny decadence (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 17 December 2024 19:29 (one year ago)

Screw you guys, I'm going home

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 17 December 2024 22:58 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

Smell ya later

― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Wednesday, 18 December 2024 01:09 (one year ago)

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

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 01:16 (one year ago)

Stay fresh, cheesebags

― epistantophus, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 04:12 (one year ago)

See ya round
Like a rissole

― bert newtown, Wednesday, 18 December 2024 05:17 (one year ago)

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 (one year ago)

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

― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 19 December 2024 19:19 (one year ago)

_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 (one year ago)


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