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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've always known that as "peachy keen". I work with a number of younger people of foreign birth. That's a double handicap when it comes to understanding old-guy irony. I often find myself replying to one of those pro-forma "How are you?" questions with "Just peachy, thanks." and that invariably...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    While it does mean that, it doesn't "just" mean that. Moonshine is illegally distilled liquor. Illegal because the distiller hides his work from the tax man. The tradition in the U.S. goes back at least to a time shortly after the revolution. The federal government was short of revenue. Some...
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Every weekday after lunch I take a post prandial perambulation.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That one has an interesting etymology. They were gangs of undercover robbers and murderers who operated for centuries in the Indian subcontinent until a forty-year effort by the British Raj eradicated them in the 19th Century. A special agency was created for the purpose, the "Thuggee and...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Fall of the Moustache

  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Fall of the Moustache

    And far less obscure (props to you for you command of the remoter regions of antique pop culture) is the one, the only ... whose painted-on mustache was replaced in later years by the real thing. You Bet Your Life!
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Here's what I did. I got a phone number with Google Voice and didn't redirect it to either my land line or mobile number. That way I can give a legitimate phone number which will answer and take a message. I just don't bother to check them. They can call me a million times at any time of day or...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I forgot. No excuse, I just forgot. So I got home just as it was getting dark when the doorbell rang. It was Darth Vader and an Imperial Storm Trooper, neither one much above four feet tall. Oh, fudge! What to do? I said, "Hold on a sec." and dashed to my kitchen where I had a large expensive...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Charles Tyrwhitt SHIRTS

    I bought some too. The material and construction were nice enough, but they come with the double-button cuffs, which annoy me because they are hard for me to fasten.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    George Carlin has/had that pairing in a bit with lots of other seemingly contradictory pairings.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That anatomical (or is it morphological?) feature was "a bay window" in my father's vocabulary.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Pant"! A pant is a short, sharp inhale and exhale. I get any number of catalogues in the mail where the copy writers try to sell me a "pant". Unless it's a pair, I'm not buying!
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about "torch singer"? Diana Krall would fit the bill, but this isn't a term I have heard in recent decades.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Some years back, while living in another town, my driveway was continually littered by free newspapers. I called the publisher and asked that these not be left on my driveway. It didn't yield the hoped-for result. My response was to collect a number of these rain-soaked rags. I drove to the...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Which came first?
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh, Jeez! You have conjured up an image I'd rather not have in my head: Skinny pale legs with varicose veins sticking out of short pants, ending in saggy socks tucked into running shoes (no they don't run), a golf shirt (they do golf), and one of those hideous "bucket hats". If any of you see...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Since you seem to be working on improving your English (or American), here are a few cultural tid bits with respect to your question. In the US: The term "purse" has morphed over the past five centuries. An Elizabethan man might have carried his shillings in a small cloth or leather bag, that...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Well, I'm with you there. Here's the Fleetwood Mac I remember from my high school days! Then there's the Stevie Nicks edition. You would never connect them, but for the name.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    While on the subject of retailing, are there still "floor walkers"?
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That movie is pure gold! It's an unsung classic, and one the first DVDs I bought when I got my first DVD player. I saw it in its theatrical release forty years ago. (Forty years ago! I can't be that old, can I? Maybe this should go in the "You know you're getting old when ..." thread.)

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