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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Here's a YouTube link to "We're in the Money". It's got a catchy tune, beautiful young women in not much costume, a great set, and a funny-looking guy in a fedora I wouldn't mind owning! Now, the "Petting in the Park" is a real corn-ball number, but for completeness' sake, there's a link to...- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
The chorus of the song gives instructions: "Pettin’ in the park, (bad boy!) Pettin’ in the dark; (bad girl!) First you pet a little, Let up a little, and they you get a little kiss. Pettin’ on the sly, (oh my!) Act a little shy : (Aw, why!) Struggle just a little, Then hug a little, And cuddle...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #1,158
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I was thinking about Gold Diggers of 1933 the other day. If you're a fan of Busby Berkely's over-the-top Depression-era musicals, you will certainly remember the gangbusters opening number "We're In The Money", but the one I'm thinking of comes along later and includes a word in the title that...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #1,153
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
Eisenhower, Soldier and President by Stephen E. Ambrose Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist by Dean Allemang and Jim Hendler Prayer by Philip Kerr- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I've heard "Cowboy Cadillac" being used to refer to the now-defunct Chevrolet El Camino. It like the result of "miscegenation" between a sedan and a pick-up truck.- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #1,133
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your favorite movie quotes
Damon Runyon, Guys & Dolls Guys and Dolls I haven't read every post in this thread, but when looking up some Damon Runyon quotes recently, I came across this one from Guys and Dolls. Sky Masterson to Nathan Detroit: "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #843
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Here's a single word which is not used much these days, "lest". A few years back, when I was riding my bicycle in early November through a small town nearby, I noticed a banner a local business had hung in honor of Veteran's Day. On it were some patriotic (US, that is) symbols, and above it was...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #1,120
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What Are You Reading
Yesterday evening I went to an author appearance book signing with Philip Kerr. While his latest number isn't one of them, I cannot recommend too highly his series (9) of detective novels featuring Bernie Gunther, once of the the Berlin Kripo, who quit and went into private practice when the...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #5,676
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
While I have no authoritative citation to offer, I expect this one has the same origins as "Jeepers Creepers!", "Cheese and Crackers!", and "Jimminy Christmas!" I imagine that these are all rhyming or alliterative alternatives to the blaspheming ejaculation of the surprised.- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vivian Maier images
It's amazing how free of wrinkles the trousers appear to be.- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
When I was a boy, my grandparents didn't have a woodshed, but they didn't have an indoor toilet, either. That meant a trip to "the outhouse". Naturally that conjures up the jokes about "two-story outhouses".- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #1,088
- Forum: The Golden Era
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plus fours
The "four" in "plus four" is a reference to the distance below the knee the trouser legs extend. Some of the photos in F3's post may be plus sixes or even plus eights.- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
One class of terms which are disappearing fast are those related to agriculture. In 1870, 53% of the US labor force was engaged in agriculture. By 1920, that had dropped to 27%. Today it is about 2%. Expressions like "in high clover" ('to live luxuriously') have lost their meaning and currency...- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Everyday Women of the Golden Era
My mother and her mother, circa 1937:- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Powder Room
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
How about some newspaper terms? (You remember newspapers, right?) When I was about 14 or 15, I was a "paperboy". I walked an area with a large canvas sack over my shoulder, dropping a copy of "The Pittsburgh Press" (now extinct) on the porches of subscribers. In other places we were called...- KILO NOVEMBER
- Post #1,048
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I've never heard this a short-hand, but I do have vivid memories of nickel candy bars. We bought them most often at the candy counter at the front of Josephine's Market, a family-owned grocery across the street from our town's elementary school. If you didn't have a nickel, but could scrape...- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I hate to be a buzz kill, but this is the "Terms Which Have Disappeared" thread, not "The Great Gatsby" thread.- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
I haven't seen any postings from Lizzie in several days. Maybe she's still digging out from the blizzard that hit the northern Atlantic coast. So I'll take a stab. It seems to me that "old xxxx" was, as the dictionaries say "chiefly British". I've heard "old thing", "old boy", "old darling"...- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
It's a long way from a fancy dresser to Jeff Bridges in The Big Lebowski!- KILO NOVEMBER
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- Forum: The Golden Era
