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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Unless you live in Flint Michigan
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Fifty years before we on this side of the Atlantic broke with you on yours, Jonathan Swift published Gulliver's Travels. We read this book in a literature class. One of my classmates (maybe the smartest kid in school, now chief of emergency medicine in a town near our school) pointed out this...
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Real McCoy's not expensive enough for you? Try this...

    or buying stuff from Visvim?
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The Fred Astaire movie, Top Hat, was released in 1935, only five years after the Harry Richman performance. Was someone's social conscience throbbing at the "high hat" attitude it showed to social inferiors? I'd like to know how the lyric was changed. According to the savants on WikiPedia...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Have you seen the well-to-do, up and down Park Avenue On that famous thoroughfare, with their noses in the air High hats and Arrow collars, white spats and lots of dollars Spending every dime, for a wonderful time ..."
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And from there back to Rome. The word is thus related to such common English words as "posit", "deposit", "position", "depose", "disposition", etc.
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When you use a verb as a noun, you have a "gerund". But turning "molly coddle" from a noun into a verb is something else. Does anyone know the antonym of gerund?
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Ah! TV memories from my early adolescence! Shindig! Hullabaloo
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A popular scare-mongering title from 1968 by Paul Erlich, The Population Bomb. A Thomas Malthus for the Flower Power Age.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Holiday greetings, in general, have gone too far. I have been offered "Happy Labor Day", and I wonder how I'm supposed to have a "Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday" or a "Happy Columbus Day"?
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was scanning my cable TV listings and saw Mystery Science Theater 3000. Tonight's feature from 1963 is, "The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies" I remember as a boy that "crazy mixed up" was an adjectival phrase often used (e.g., "crazy mixed up kids")...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Explain the 3-Sphere to me.

    Because we can experience no more than three spatial dimensions, we can't imagine what more than three spatial dimension might be like (well, not without mind-altering substances to screw up our brain chemistry). These extra dimensions are not spatial in any sense we can grasp. You might find...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In one of the hundreds of Three Stooges shorts I watched after school each day when I was a nipper, one of "The Boys" (I can't remember which) complained of "lumbago". Does anyone have lumbago nowadays?
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    How did people 'hook up' in the Golden Era?

    More likely that you're thinking of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. who wrote in Buck v. Bell, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough".
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

    I have no pictures, but from a later era: Manners the butler, a miniature guy (maybe 18 inches tall), Dressed in black coat, striped pants, bowler hat and umbrella (I left out the Oxford comma because he speaks with an American accent.), he was the spokesman for Kleenex table napkins in TV...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Your call is very important to us (that's why we don't hire enough people to answer your questions so that you have to wait on hold for fifteen minutes while we tell you over and over how important your call is.)"
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Remember the scene in The Maltese Falcon where Casper Gutman "slips a mickey" to Sam Spade? Apparently it wasn't another Golden Age anti-Irish slur. Mickey Finn was a real person.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    August 15, 1971
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Along with "Shenanigans", other words from the period when recent Irish immigrants were the disfavored minority: hooligan, malarkey, paddy wagon. Any others come to mind?
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Dunkirk - I've just seen it

    I saw it the weekend before (getting back to the movie). Mark Rylance (who played Rudolf Abel in "Bridge of Spies") owned that movie. Oddly, Kenneth Branagh has only a cameo role. Here's a question for you aviation nerds. Weren't you just a bit skeptical about the apparently-limitless ability...

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