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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    You can still buy a horse-drawn McCormick reaper from an agricultural antiques dealer, but you can't buy one new. They have disappeared, just like your Iron Rite, which ceased production in December of 1961.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I haven't seen a mangle in decades, although they were fairly common when I was a boy. I see that Amazon offers two models from a German manufacturer, one for $2K and one at $3K. Even allowing for the difference in purchasing power between the 1960 dollar and the 2013 dollar, that sounds like a...
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's another one from a Dragnet episode. Friday and Romero where questioning a witness in her home where she was doing her laundry. She asked Friday to move aside so that she could get to the "mangle".
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Chazz Palminteri's Fedora from Mullholland Falls.

    No bidders, yet. Too bad the seller doesn't have the sense to give the inside circumference. I didn't imagine the maker sewed in a size tag on a custom job, but the seller should have given the measurement in inches or centimeters.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Are You Reading

    I'm about 3/4 through the third volume of Robert Caro's wonderful biography of Lyndon Johnson. It's a rare biographer who isn't in love with his subject. Caro is a wonderful story-teller, an inexhaustible researcher, and shows Johnson warts and all, and he isn't shy about showing the warts.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about the corruption of "I couldn't care less.", which I now often hear expressed as "I could care less.", exactly the opposite meaning?
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Not since I last watched a Popeye the Sailor cartoon. Steel hulls have obviated shivering timbers.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    OK, keeping the thread alive, here's a term which will be a complete mystery to the general public in 2043, "spinster". And tangential to that, a term that the original DA character, Adam Schiff, in Law and Order used in describing a judge, "He's what people used to call 'a confirmed batchelor'."
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    wear lingerie as outerwear

    I can't say that this old guy has seen it. While it doesn't seem appropriate, you can't argue that fashion models will look good in just about anything. I shudder at the thought of the displays we will see on the streets if it passes into general use. It brings to mind a Jeff Foxworthy bit on...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's another one from a Dragnet episode I listened to yesterday, "sleeping porch". I imagine that ubiquitous air conditioning has done away with these in the US.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Before "transistor radios" (now also a bygone term) replaced tube radios, drug stores had "tube testers". The do-it-yourself radio repair man (Remember television and radio repair shops? Ha!) could take his suspect tubes to the drug store and test them. When one was found wanting, he could buy a...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    ... or a goldfish, or a model car kit, or an injection molded Creature from the Black Lagoon, or a kite, or a spool of thread, or yard goods, or shoe polish, or ,,, While I'm on the topic of extinct retail, my home town had two drug stores with "soda fountains". For those of you too young to...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's another couple of extinct terms. With the disappearance of F.W. Woolworth, S.S. Kresge, G.C. Murphy, Ben Franklin, McCrory's, etc., The term "five and dime" has gone extinct, too. Concomitantly, a feature of five-and-dime stores, the "lunch counter" has also disappeared. One day, when...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    These stamps were a customer loyalty device. I remember them from the 1950's and 1960's. You would get them for trading a gas stations, grocery stores, etc. S&H was one, perhaps the biggest of these, but there were many others, Plaid Stamps and Top Value were two others. Today you have more...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    One doofus or an annoying trend in socks?

    In the words of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, "... But I know it when I see it."
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I left my home town shortly before my 18th birthday to go to college. When I lived there, we had neighborhood groceries. I can think of eight without spending a lot of effort, there may have been more. At those businesses, customers generally had accounts which they would pay monthly. "Put it on...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My maternal grandfather (born 1898) would always refer to sums less than a dollar in terms of "bits"; two bits, four bits, six bits. He always referred to automobiles as "machines", as in, "Watch out! That machine is backing up!"
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I'm fond of the old Dragnet radio shows. My local (USA) public radio station airs old radio on Sunday evenings, and Dragnet is on from 7:30 to 8:00. I like them so much, that when I saw a complete collection available on Audible.com, I snapped them up. I was taking a walk yesterday at lunch...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    One doofus or an annoying trend in socks?

    Look at me! Look at me! I'm wearing loud mismatched socks! I'm such a rebel! Well, Mike, a "doofus" is pretty much a harmless character, so I'd go along with you there. Otherwise, I see it as a pathetic cry for attention.
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Knit Ties

    I don't wear them with suits, but I will wear one with a sports jacket in colder months.

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