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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here are two mid-20th Century medical terms which have disappeared: "oxygen tent" and "iron lung".
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here is another term, once common in everyday speech in the U.S., but now incomprehensible to people younger than 30. Simon and Garfunkel captured in in "Punky's Dilemma" on their Bookends album. "Draft Dodger"
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    This will hearken back to an earlier post I made concerning mom and pop grocery stores in small towns. My own small-town home town (I haven't lived there since 1971), is lucky enough to have a group called the Oakmont Historical Society. One of their activities is a lecture series on the history...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A colleague had abdominal pain on a recent Thursday night, had is appendix removed on Friday, and was discharged early Saturday evening, shortly after I visited him in his hospital room. He must have better insurance. He was off work for two weeks. I visited him at home. He told me that he...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You mean, like every twenty-something does? ARRGGGGH! That drives me crazy (maybe this belongs in the "So trivial, but it really ticks you off" thread.) Are they trying to assure themselves that you are listening to them? Is it that they asking for encouragement? Or is it merely that they...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My family is from the Pittsburgh region, three or four generations back to the first immigrants. I've lived in Fairfax County Virginia (the Beltway runs through it) for about 40 years. I lost my Pittsburgh accent years ago. Here in NoVa, there isn't anyone left from the days of "Northern...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    The wonder of wedding bands

    If ever there was a couple who deserved each other, that's it. (Lest anyone misunderstand, that is not a flattering statement.)
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One of my father's favorite utterances when another driver did something of which he took a dim view, "If you had one more brain, you'd be a half-wit!"
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Do you guys still "see a man about a horse" or do ladies still "powder their noses", or has the world got just too frank for that?
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Who got the oldest computer-contest! ;-)

    I was holding it upside down. The pairs of beads count as "5", while the lower ones count as "1", or so says the accompanying manual. I thought you folks might enjoy another venerable computer, one I made acquaintance with in high school many decades back. I have the scabbard, too.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Who got the oldest computer-contest! ;-)

  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    This was fully of ironic moments and the anachronisms were doubtless deliberate. The dialogue was so far tongue-in-cheek that it's a wonder you could understand any of it. By the way, I loved this picture, and the Coen brothers are tops in my book!
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Like this guy?
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    A "butt" is a large barrel (all barrels were wood until the late 19th Century) which contained wine, two hogsheads in volume. Turn an empty butt on it's side and paint concentric circles on the bottom, and, voila! An archer's target.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    And what might that German word be? I'm sure that some see it as pretentious, but I enjoy sprinkling non-English words into my speech. Since two of my great-grandfathers were German immigrants (a Hessian shoemaker and an East Prussian farmer) "low German" (Plattdeutsch) words did crop up in my...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Your favorite movie quotes

    I confess that I haven't read much of this thread, so apologies if this one is already there. Young Frankenstein: Igor (that's pronounced "eye-gore") and Dr. Frankenstein (that's pronounced "Franken-steen") are up to their hips in a grave they are robbing for spare monster body parts. The doc is...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    "Ecce homo", no sense of familiarity in that, as compared to "my man" or "my boy".
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Things I'll miss when retired

    I was "retired" for 16 months over 2013 and 2014. That is to say, I couldn't find a job. At the time, I was in my late 50's. If anyone is skeptical of "age discrimination", take my data point as counter evidence. I was never bored during that time, never depressed, never discouraged. I did miss...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I remember a doctor visit years ago. I think I was there about an hour or so after the appointed time. I had to take off work to be there. My time is valuable to me, too. When the doc finally walked into the waiting room, I remember saying, "Doctor! I'm glad the rumors weren't true!" "Rumors?"...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I started this thread with a term I heard in a Dragnet radio show, and now, here's another. "laundry mark". Whenever Sgt. Joe Friday was presented with a John Doe corpse, he'd ask the lab boys if they had found any laundry marks on the victim's clothing. Before the days of coin-op laundromats...

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