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Bell Telephone ad, 1959 (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by BilSabab@lemmy.world to c/vintageads@sh.itjust.works

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[–] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I had to look up curmudgeon, and then niggard

what whild ride that was

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah I was trying to be creative there.

A "curmudgeon" is a stubborn, cranky, usually old person. The word bears some resemblance to "bludgeon", which is both a noun meaning a blunt force weapon, a club or cudgel, OR a verb meaning to attack or hit someone with such a weapon. Thus treating "curmudgeon" as a verb should mean to cantankerously complain about/at/to someone. "I asked grampa if he remembered to take his life alert pendant with him and I got curmudgeoned."