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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Can you guess who this is?" I got it in about two seconds. It's amazing how much the facial structure is stable over decades!
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The Pittsburgh version was "hunkie". I wonder if the Afro-American "honkie" is a variant?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    The WPA

    I can't seem to upload an image from my computer, but here is the location of the WPA-built post office in my home town, the one with the "socialist realism" bas relief. Use Google Earth to see: 40°31'07.66" N 79°50'32.93" W As long as you have it visible in Google Earth, scan a little to the...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    The WPA

    The post office in my home town was built as a WPA project in 1941. I can still picture a bas relief, in the style which is best described as "socialist realism" showing factory and farm workers with bulging muscles holding hammers and sickles, on the interior wall near where the wanted posters...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was speaking with the pastor at my mother's church last year when arranging her funeral. Our bunch was one of the last German holdouts. In fact, according to the pastor, H.J. Hienz (the pickle and ketchup baron) pulled out of the denomination when his church refused to offer services in...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    According to that font of information, WikiPedia, A German "biergarten" is more specific than a tavern, being an open-air venue offering entertainment as well as beer. It seems to have originated in southern Germany. (I'm picturing guys in lederhosen and women in dirndls at Oktoberfest in...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Three of my eight great-grandparents were German immigrants. Germans were the largest ethnic group in Pittsburgh. Not only was "kindergarten" the norm, bars were always called "beer gardens" when I was a boy.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Putting on the dog", there's a term "that's got legs".
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember a small boy in the late '50s and very early 60's being made such an offer on many occasions in southwestern Pennsylvania. It usually involved some toy or other that he had spotted in a store and developed an unreasonable desire to own.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Do Men Hate Women's Hats?

    I remember the pro wrestling scene in "Shadow of the Thin Man". Nick and Nora are at a wrestling match and one of the guys sitting behind Nora says "Gee lady! What a screwy hat!"
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Must have been napping.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think that "dear" as a synonym for "costly" has disappeared.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The boys to the rescue, again! Enjoy Oemay, ArrlyLay, and Urlycay exploring pig Latin!
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Warren Clarke, the redoubtable "Andy Dalziel" actor in the British television realizations of the Reginald Hill series of books.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    Three Stooges, anyone? This reminds me of one of my favorite Three Stooges shorts. The boys are ice men, and Curly starts at the bottom of a very long, steep set of stairs to deliver a block of ice, only to find it reduced to an ice cube by the time he reaches the top of the stairs. When the...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Your favorite movie quotes

    I'll repeat one I posted in "Terms Which Have Disappeared". From "The Thin Man": Nora: "They say your were shot twice in the tabloids!" Nick" "It's a lie. He never came anywhere near my tabloids."
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    From "The Thin Man": Nora: "They say you were shot twice in the tabloids!" Nick: "It's a lie. He never came anywhere near my tabloids."
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    These may have been common only in urban areas, but they were often in American movies. Social and economic factors have made, or will likely soon make them disappear: broadsheet tabloid above the fold sob sister linotype type setter bulldog
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    What are you listening to?

    Obnoxious contemporary pop music while I wait on hold for a service rep.
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a Cub Scout (Things may have changed, it was more than 50 years ago.), as I recall the Cub Scout Oath, we undertook to "... be square and obey the law of the pack."
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