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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I first heard that locution when I moved to Washington, DC about 40 years ago. It is most commonly heard from African Americans of southern origin, so I expect it is also common among southern whites as well.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    On the cigarette theme, how about "tailor-mades"?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There is a movie, "Battle Ground", which depicts a company of GIs trapped in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. This was made in 1949, just a few years after the events portrayed, so the popular culture of the period was still current. So, Van Johnson plays a guy who is consumed by the...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    On yer bike!

    My vintage posterior can't deal with the tiny seats on upright bicycles, so I went modern. This German recumbent is my ride. I've added seat covers, fenders, and a rear rack. Both the front and rear wheels have shock absorbers. I can ride this for hours and nothing hurts when I get up.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Boarding House", and the derivative, "boarding house reach"
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "I Was a Teenaged Paperboy" (OK, it doesn't have the hair-raising thrill of "I Was a Teenaged Werewolf" or even the political titillation of "I Was a Communist for the FBI"), I delivered The Pittsburgh Press, an afternoon paper, now defunct, with a blue-collar readership. My father had delivered...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Soda Jerk", "Pump Jockey", "Newsboy"
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You could move a little bit east, to Arizona.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Victorian London Street Photos, check the hats

    I saw this on nbcnews.com today, I found the hats, which look like very tall bowlers, to be interesting, and I thought you would too. Victorian London Street Photos
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Recommendations for long-wearing top lift shoe repair?

    I wear out the heels on shoes pretty quickly. The top lifts that Allen Edmonds uses (but not only them) aren't very good in this respect. I have had the top lifts replaced on many pairs of shoes, many of them repeatedly. I have tried Vibram, it's a little better. Today I picked up a pair of...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Ahh, no. Before I was old enough to feel comfortable using the word with the asterisk, the noun we used was "dirt". But of course, "do", as you used it, is a noun, not a verb.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's another one, "torch singer".
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Hat comeback

    Snarky and clever! Worthy of the Algonquin Round Table!
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And "thingamajig" or the variant "thingamabob". I hear more "whatsis" these days. OH! and another fast-disappearing word! When I am asked what I would like at a counter service establishment, I generally say, "I'll have a ....." Now, anyone under 30 seems to say, "I'll do a ... ." "Have" isn't...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I wear them! Shoes which cost me $300 or more per pair definitely get protection. With the prevalence of cheap, glued shoes manufactured in low-wage countries, it doesn't mystify me that people who buy them don't wear rubber overshoes in sloppy weather. The problem I have is finding overshoes...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In general, nouns having distinct forms for referring to males and females have fallen out of fashion. For example, you will hear both men and women engaged in writing for a living referred to as "author", when before I was born you would have "author" and "authoress". Going back to the Dragnet...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    After seeing Matt Deckard's photo in the "Open Crown Stetsons" thread, I was reminded of a now-defunct metaphor for a narrow escape from a dangerous situation, "That was a close shave!"
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Where did your user name come from??

    My surname is German. Many words in modern English have Germanic roots, such as "knee", "knife", "kneel", "knock". When I am dealing with someone who is asking me my name, such as in a customer service situation, I frequently am asked how to spell it. I say very slowly and clearly to the person...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    This reminded me of something from my driver's ed class in high school back about 1970. This was not a course you studied for, it was a course you took so your dad could get a discount on his car insurance once his sixteen-year-old son got a driver's license. On a written test, one of the...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've heard it in any number of old movies. Usually it was said by some young person. It must have been an instance of youth culture language. Imagine Jimmy Olsen saying it to Superman in the old TV series.

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