How to Sound Like the Bee's Knees: A Dictionary of 1920s Slang

[Allhallowsday]

How to Sound Like the Bee's Knees: A Dictionary of 1920s Slang

http://news.yahoo.com/sound-bees-knees-dictionary-1920s-slang-203421465.html 
Prohibition be damned, words were just better in the 1920s. There's a fascinating piece today in the New York Times from Edward Rothstein about the new prohibition exhibition at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center that's well worth a read if you're interested in things booze and 1920s, and of course about that truly weird little legal time in our country's history. But of extra-special interest to me in this article was the following note about the exhibit: 

http://news.yahoo.com/sound-bees-knees-dictionary-1920s-slang-203421465.html

[tracy]

Cool article....and I was suprised to realize that I knew some of these already.

[RCMerchant]

The cat's meow!

[RCMerchant]

s**t-in the back country of Michigan,the farmers used lotsa these terms-heck-I use phonus balonus-learned it from Bugs Bunny,I think,

[ChaosTheory]

Heh heh.  "Zozzled."   I'm saving that one. 

[dean]

This thread is the kipper's knickers.

[Trevor]

No words for underpants back then? *SOB* 

[tracy]

No words for underpants back then? *SOB* 

Maybe "Bloomers".