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    You know you are getting old when:

    I was afraid the idiom wouldn't translate properly.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Verliert dein Kaugummi seinen Geschmack auf dem Bettpfosten über Nacht?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    That just goes to show you can't believe everything you hear.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I have heard that Italians drive with one hand out the window and the other on the horn. But I've never been to Italy and cannot confirm that from personal experience.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I did have a bit of trouble with roundabouts. That's where people honked at me. There are more of them being built over here now. But Washington, D.C., laid out by a Frenchman a long time ago, has a number of roundabouts, which we give the quaint name of "traffic circles" to instead. Some are...
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    Small busted Golden Era actresses?

    That's the image that comes to mind when I hear the character "Mrs. Uppington" (Uppie) on the Fibber McGee & Molly show, although the real person who played her did not look like that. But I also am reminded of a woman I knew, sort of, when I was little, in the 1950s. I don't remember her name...
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    Small busted Golden Era actresses?

    Ah, the Nude Ranch! I thought that was in San Francisco. The correct term would be, I believe, "athletic." But the hourglass figure still appeared in the form, so to speak, of older women, who quite naturally would have looked dated, even in real life. One of the best examples I can think of is...
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    Skin salves or balms before the 1920s?

    My father worked for a large, old-fashioned commercial laundry up until 1963 and I spend a lot of time wandering around the place after hours when he was there working as a mechanic. He essentially worked two jobs for them. I don't remember the smells so much as I remember what seemed like a lot...
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    Skin salves or balms before the 1920s?

    Is smelling like a load of washing good or bad?
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    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    Although he was known for his drinking, the censors must have really had it in for W. C. Fields, given how saloons were regularly featured in the old cowboy movies, even if the hero never went inside. Likewise, the Thin Man series also had a lot of drinking.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Where I'm from, at one time, there existed the institution of the company store. You lived in company-owned housing, shopped at the company store and probably walked to work at the mine. You may have even been paid in company script. That was free-enterprise, too.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    That's sounds about right. But the line I remember best from Bugs Bunny is the one in which Daffy Duck says "I'm going back to Perth Amboy." I hope I'm remembering that right. Sometimes I don't.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    My next door neighbor here at work was born in Brooklyn, although they moved to Long Island, which may cancel the distinction. Coincidentally, she and one other employee here both graduated from the same college on Long Island, Hofstra. I tell her she's lost her accent but in her defense, she's...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That's because women don't wear dresses anymore. They don't, do they? "Frock" was also used as a term for a certain coat in the British army, although the term has gone out of use, along with the item itself. It is not to be confused with "frock coat," which is still in use but only in a few...
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    Small busted Golden Era actresses?

    I'd dying to see what Miss Lizzie has to say about this.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    There's a line in the movie "Arsenic and Old Lace" (a subtitle, near the beginning) that says, "Meanwhile, across the river in the United States proper." I think it was referring to Brooklyn where the Brewster's live.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I should also mention that the biggest adventure I ever had overseas was renting (hiring!) a vehicle with a six-speed manual transmission (gearbox) with right-hand drive in the U.K. The first couple hundred yards (meters) were tricky. After that I managed okay. Changing gears wasn't that hard...
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    Old gas stations

    In my neck of the woods (southern West Virginia), the local folk hero is John Henry (the steel driving man). He's not as well-known as Paul Bunyan and his story has never been elaborated on and is more likely to be mostly true. Part of the reason may be that he was a black laborer, a group that...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I have been to London and I can assure you that English is no longer spoken there. At least I couldn't understand the natives. As it happened, the desk clerk at the hotel where we stayed, a block from the South Kensington Underground Station, was from the Ukraine. Excellent English, better than...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    As an example, no Baptist would want a Roman Catholic to represent Christianity on their behalf. I'd say that all religions are greatly misunderstood, sometimes even by their practitioners. And they all make similar errors: they all think they own God.

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