We’d say “What a wonderful day for a tea party”. I don’t remember how that came about, but that statement sure invokes different emotions if you say it these days.
This reminds me of an elaborate system a good friend and I had for pointing out hot dudes. The spotter would ask “What time is the sausagefest?”. The other would reply “I’m not sure, what do you think?”. The first would then reply with a time that allowed the second to locate target specimen based on clock hand position. It was not very effective in crowd situations, but the emotion “sausagefest” evokes will hopefully always remain the same.
