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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    People of my parents' generation (born late teens, early 20's) frequently described something I'd now call "flashy" as "jazzy". I haven't heard anyone younger use that in as long as I can remember.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Should Men Wear Bracelets ?

    If your arms are covered in tats, who's going to notice the bracelet?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember when my small town dial phones were introduced (suburban Pittsburgh, late 1950's). Our exchange was VAnDyke-8. Before that, you picked up the handset and when the operator answered, "Number, please.", you'd tell her the number. My house was 917M.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Most distintive beard style for 50+

    For years I've thought about shaving off the sideburns, leaving a sort of modified VanDyke, but I haven't got the stones to do it.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have heard that many telemarketing operations have moved abroad, outside the reach of the U.S. government's ability to prosecute/sue. I have been on the do not call list since the first day. The call volume dropped initially, but more and more of them are outside the reach of the law.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back to the trivial. Here's one that's been bugging me for years. Walking. In North America, we drive on the right side of the road. We walk all over the sidewalk. Being the sort of person I am, I always walk on the right side of the sidewalk, as far to the right as I can get. Comes now...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The southwestern Pennsylvania version from the late 1950's varies in this way, "We bopped her on the bean with a rotten tangerine, And she ain't our teacher no more!" Setting aside that this is the one I grew up with, so am inclined to like it better than Lizzie's, I find "bopped her on the...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Comes now the pedant. Arsenic and lead are not organic, but are minerals. You will find them on your handy periodic table of the elements at positions 33 and 82, respectively.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    As I recall the story, it was Mrs. Clemmens who objected to Mr. Clemmens' bad language, apparently often and to no avail. At some point she struck on the idea of speaking to Mr. Clemmens using the same vocabulary he used which so offended her. A little surprised, but amused, Mr. Clemmens...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Get out your globe and look at the Baltic Sea. Note the proximity of Scandinavia and western Poland (formerly East Prussia). One of my pairs of great-grandparents were immigrants from East Prussia. Significant parts of my own DNA test were similar to yours. Scandinavians were not stay-at-homes...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here is another term I got from the Dragnet radio shows. I believe they have perished in the past 40 years, "women's hotel".
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Any number of performers have done this. The absolute, funniest, worst performance was Clark Gable's:
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I recently read the obit of the woman who taught the "business" curriculum in my high school. That meant she taught bookkeeping, typing, shorthand writing, etc. That brought to mind Gregg-ruled note pads, stenotype machines, and other things that wouldn't likely mean anything to someone 50 years...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I always thought of that as "chiefly British", as the dictionaries phrase it. This especially in light of a French immigrant friend once telling me that the French phrase translates as "English Raincoats".
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My father (born in 1915) would advise me to ride it sometimes when, as a boy, I asked him to drive me to somewhere in walking distance.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And Jade East. My hormone-addled 14-year old brain had me using both at different times. The girls still weren't giving me much notice.
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Tony, Wikipedia confirms that the Ranchero predated the El Camino by two years.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'm old enough to have seen these if they had been sold in the US, but I don't recall them. I do recall the now-extinct Chevrolet El Camino, popularly known as a "Cowboy Cadillac". It had nearly the same design, but a little sexier. I think I heard Chevy may be reintroducing the model (car...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a boy, people my age who broke the law were "juvenile delinquents". I imagine this was a softened term to replace whatever came before. In recent decades such people have become "youthful offenders".
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Boot Socks

    Check out Duluth Trading. I prefer over-the-calf socks. I have bought maybe a dozen pairs over the years. The earlier ones have a tendency to sag (not every one, but one is enough to be annoying), but the ones I've bought recently are differently constructed and don't sag. They come in several...

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