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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    None of the buffets I've eaten in, nearly all in the Northern Neck of Virginia (Land of Pleasant Living), were the least bit yuppified. In fact, nothing in the Northern Neck (Land of, etc.) was at all Yuppie. Yuppie implies urban. The Northern Neck is neither urban or suburban, although being an...
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    The Best Yet....1950's

    After looking over Miss Lizzie's list of the 1930s again, I think a similar list could be put together for just about any decade. The only thing that would change would be the names. It's like the old newsreels that you used to see in movie theaters. The stories are almost the same from decade...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How is buffet "yuppified"?
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    Concerning Banana Republic, one of their problems was that they were essentially a high-end surplus store, also carrying spin-off safari clothing and accessories like luggage. All well and good but perhaps the market for that stuff wasn't as big as all that. Other stores that sold basically the...
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    Food that is soft and bland pretty well describes the kind of food that I grew up eating in the 1950s. That was also what was available in ordinary restaurants, too, of the "Blue Plate Special" variety. And you reminded me of the last place I ate that might be described as a cafeteria: the...
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    Are there any real cafeterias left? By that I mean a kind of restaurant where you pick up a tray, go down the serving line and select what you want to eat, the server puts it on a plate, you take it and go on to select a desert (calories don't count eaten away from home) and a drink and pay for...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Kleenex isn't a good example and neither is Aspirin. Before, it would have been called simply tissue paper, if in fact, it existed before Kleenex came along. Aspirin might have been called headache pills or something, or as they say in the army, "all purpose capsules." But let's say your name is...
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    Lost Cities!

    For what it's worth, there were a number of old movies, mostly serials, based on the theme of a lost city. There was "The Lost City" (1935), "The Lost Jungle" (1934), and finally, "The Lost City of the Jungle" (1946). The plot of the last one, a serial, involved a defense against the atomic...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Or as they say in the South, "Co-Cola." There is an irritating trend of making very ordinary names legal trademarks. I suppose it's entirely legal and so on, but from a logical standpoint, it comes across as mean. No one has done this but imagine someone making a trademark of "white bread."...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was thinking of Satyricon but I've neither read the book nor seen the movie, so that may not be correct at all.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I think the idea is that if something is "new and improved," then that's what it's called in marketing. If it isn't, then you call it "classic." But sometimes, people use the term classic to mean the way something was when they were a certain age and really nothing else. If you roll your blue...
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    That's debatable about boots. Depends on which two pair of boots you pick to compare. I have no reason to believe my Hathorn boots will last any longer than my surplus army boots. In the meantime, however, those custom made boots will probably fit better, especially if your feet are hard to fit...
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    A better example might be in comparing stainless steel flatware with flatware that is sterling silver. Some stainless flatware is cheap and will bend easily. But good quality stainless flatware is the equal of any silver flatware in quality but it still isn't (real) silverware. So it doesn't...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I usually won't eat fish because that's what it tastes like: fish.
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    I don't think high quality necessarily means something is going to last longer. It depends what you're talking about. Even so, will a Mercedes last longer than a Ford? Will one even go faster, if that's important? Will a pair of shoes with a real leather sole that costs $500, assuming there are...
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    There's some story from Ancient Rome about cheaply built apartment houses falling down. But I can't remember the names.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    If a term has really disappeared, then I've probably never heard of it.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    If something has been manufactured by the same company for a hundred years, does it ever stop being an original? It would be rare to find something that has been manufactured that long without some changes being made. If anything was changed, does it stop being an original?
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    The Best Yet....1950's

    Sometimes I define nostalgia as a selective memory of things you never experienced at all the first time around. There are plenty of things that you really did experience that you miss to make up for it. One thing here is that few people actually experience everything. You don't hear every...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Have you ever noticed how often the word "original" is applied to things, from food to music groups, both here and elsewhere?

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