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    Bow Ties

    I saw two Stafford bow ties (J.C. Penney) which have a different pattern on each end-- all black-with-silver. On one, stripes / houndstooth. On the other, small dots / small doo-dads which I can't describe. I had imagined that such an arrangement would cause a wild-and-crazy mismatch on...
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    My mom says when her parents would question her about something she was supposed to do, but didn't-- or something she did, that wasn't what they thought she should have done-- no matter how reasonable her explanation, they'd reply, "Alibi Ike..." After the baseball player, in the story (and Joe...
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    A breakdown of Fedora Loungers by sex, location, age and marital status

    aka "Fedora Loungers broken down by age, sex, and other factors" to borrow an old joke
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    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    I heard a Jack Benny Show where he tells Phil Harris, "Your grammar is worse than Abe Lyman's-- and HE never went any further than blocks!" (i.e. kiddie letter blocks)
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    I wouldn't think this would have spread into wide public knowledge, but the B&O RR had a lot of tight clearances along their Chicago-Washington DC mainline, until they were gradually eliminated in the fifties and early sixties. Tall boxcars became more and more common in the thirties and...
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    There's a WWII movie where the U.S. soldiers at the front lines suspect Germans could infiltate wearing U.S. uniforms. So they greet any unknown G.I. with "Hello Joe, Whatdya Know?" And if the answer isn't "Just got back from Kokomo," they know something's wrong.
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    ... a switch on G-- D--- It...
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    The comic character Nubbin used Tarnation a lot. My dad would say dad-gum-it... and gee-ma-netly. (The former is a switch on ******nit, but I can't figure out the latter.)
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    What are you wearing today??

    I think I can see the flask, even from these angles!
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    ---------------------------------- Just cast an eye in her direction, oh me oh my, ain't that perfection? ("Ain't She Sweet")
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    I learned from Michael Wex's book "Born to Kvetch" that the Yiddish "hak nisht ken tshaynik" (spelling varies) means "don't knock a teakettle" and that a character on the show Law and Order says "quit hakking me." A friend told me her grandmother would say it like the book, while her aunt would...
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    In case no one's mentioned it, there the Loesser/McHugh song about slang, "Murder He Says"-- http://www.cduniverse.com/roy-eldridge-/-gene-krupa-/-anita-o'day-murder-he-says-lyrics-15170214.htm
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    My mother (b.1925) describes a circuitous or meandering trip to a place as "going all around Robin Hood's barn."
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    There's a Jack Benny radio show where Dennis Day is supposed to be a tough guy-- I believe in company with Richard Widmark or some other film heavy. At the point where it's fairly obvious Dennis should say, "... or it'll be curtains, see?" He says, "... or it'll be curtains, look?"
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    I've just discovered this thread, so it'll take me a while to work my way through it... I may write something that I'll eventually find out has already been addressed. "BIRD" according to the thread-starting glossary is "an aviator or a popular girl." Plenty of movies (Laurel & Hardy for a...
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    Maggie Roche's song "My Winter Coat"

    Have any of you heard it? It's on The Roches' 1995 CD "Can We Go Home Now?" A six-minute celebration of the perfect ladies' coat... I could have posted this in "Outerwear" or "Radio/What Are You Listening To?" but this seemed like a better place. I also heard a shortened version of the song...
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