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In my day, you met the lady, courted her, married her, lived together, then had kids. How quaint is that?
And now when you meet the lady it's down to the last two. :eusa_doh:
In my day, you met the lady, courted her, married her, lived together, then had kids. How quaint is that?
The parents of that generation called it "sparking."
The parents of that generation called it "sparking."
Sparking! Must be an Americanism, I've heard of spanking, as in the monkey, another wierd Americanism.The parents of that generation called it "sparking."
Sparking! Must be an Americanism, I've heard of spanking, as in the monkey, another wierd Americanism.
I take your point and draw a veil over this particular subject.Is that any worse then Shaking hands with your John Thomas?
"Davenport" was a series of sofas made by A.H. Davenport and Company. They were so popular that the word "Davenport" became interchangeable with the words "sofa" and "couch" in some parts of the U.S. in the same way that brand names like Kleenex and Band-Aid became interchangeable with facial tissues and bandages.One term that has also faded from view is the davenport. My grandmother always referred to the couch as the "davenport," but could never explain why she called it a davenport instead of a couch.
"Davenport" was a series of sofas made by A.H. Davenport and Company. They were so popular that the word "Davenport" became interchangeable with the words "sofa" and "couch" in some parts of the U.S. in the same way that brand names like Kleenex and Band-Aid became interchangeable with facial tissues and bandages.
I don't even know who he is. [huh]You mean they weren't referring to him?:
In "The Lost Weekend," one of the female characters says "natch" for "naturally" and I have always wondered if that abbreviation was in common use at the time or just something that was specific to that character.
Staying somewhat with the theme, the term "making love" used to mean (or based on the context of the old movies that I see it in) used to mean courting or trying to get a woman interested in you. I'm confident LizzieMaine can give us a precise definition, but what is funny is that in many old movies - where nothing sexual or untoward is even hinted out - the characters will say things such as "he was making love to her outside," or "he makes love to all the cute women." I wonder if a kid or young person today stumbling onto an old movie would completely misinterpret that.
Plum, as in , plum tuckered out, or he's plum crazy.
Agatha Christies' Hercule Periot uses this phrase frequently...
The expression "making love" for courting is really funny today because it will pop up in a very innocent old movie in a sentence like "he was making love to her all night," meaning he was courting her or promoting himself to her all night (normally meaning all night at the dance or dinner), but to today's ear it sounds like they were, shall we say, intimate and alone all night, which would be beyond scandalous in the movie at the time. It's an expressions whose meaning has changed significantly over time, but since we have evidence of the old use in old movies, we can enjoy the time-warped humor.