gold ole horse manure

05:49 Jun 9, 2014 

But you're right about "gold ol' days": it looks like a genuine variant, not a typo (though with the same meaning). Maybe with the suggestion of gold as in the golden age...?

05:46 Jun 9, 2014 

The form "good ole" (or "good ol'") is an Americanism, but "good old" is standard in British English too. When I was young there was a BBC programme called "The Good Old Days", which was a recreation of Victorian and Edwardian British music hall (like variety theatre), with the performers and the audience in period costume.

In the US "good ol' boys" is a common expression, meaning rural white men in the South. Remember Don McLean: "Bye, bye, Miss American Pie / Drove my Chevy to the levee, / But the levee was dry / Them good ol' boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye / Singin' 'This'll be the day that I die, / This'll be the day that I die'."

22:08 Jun 8, 2014 

Just to say that “gold ole days” sounds like an Americanism to me, i.e., including “days” Google gives more than 8,000 hits...

... the return of the gold ole days with Doc Rivers. http://forums.celticsblog.com/index.php?topic=47701.msg10005...

I don’t know if “gold ole” comes from some kind of spoonerism starting with “good old”... where the “d” in “old” gets transposed and replaces the “o” in “goOd” to become “goLd” o just comes about spontaneously, as in some kind of “golden age”... At any rate, whatever the reason, the “estiércol de caballo de toda la vida” (de los viejos buenos tiempos... cuando íbamos a galopar con los caballos de nuestra cuadra... y usábamos el poderoso estiércol para fertilizar nuestros campos...) sounds really good to me. Greetings.