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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: MOONIE on July 10, 2014, 09:57:51 am
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>>A term I haven't heard in a long time, and thinking about
>>'fender skirts' started me thinkingabout other words that
>>quietly disappear fromour language with hardly a notice,
>>like 'curb feelers'
>>And 'steering knobs.' (AKA)
>>'suicide knob,' 'neckers knobs.'
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>>Since I'd been thinking of cars,
>>my mind naturally went that direction first.
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>>Any kids will probably have to find some older person
>>over 50 to explain some of these terms to you.
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>>Remember 'Continental kits?'
>>They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers
>>that were supposed to make any car
>>as cool as a Lincoln Continental.
>>When did we quit calling them 'emergency brakes?
>>At some point 'parking brake' became the proper term.
>>But I miss the hint of drama that went with 'emergency brake.'
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>>I'm sad, too, that almost all theold folks are gone
>>who would call the accelerator the 'foot feed.'
>>Many today do not even know what a clutch is
>>or that the dimmer switch used to be on the floor.
>>For that matter, the starter was down theretoo.
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>>Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home,
>>so you could ride the 'running board' up to the house?
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>>Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth
>>but never anymore - 'store-bought.'
>>Of course, just about everything is store-bought these days.
>>But once it was bragging material to have a
>>store-bought dress or a store-bought bag of candy.
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>>'Coast to coast'is a phrase that once held all sorts
>>of excitement and now means almost nothing.
>>Now we take the term 'worldwide' for granted.
>>This floors me.
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>>On a smaller scale, 'wall-to-wall' was once
>>a magical term in our homes. In the '50s,
>>everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with,
>>wow, wall-to-wall carpeting!
>>Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting
>>with hardwood floors. Go figure.
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>>When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase
>>'in a family way?' It's hard to imagine that the word 'pregnant'
>>was once considered a little too graphic,
>>a little too clinical for use in polite company,
>>so we had all that talk about stork visits and
>>'being in a family way' or simply 'expecting.'
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>>Apparently 'brassiere' is a word no longer in usage.
>>I said it the other day and my daughter cracked up.
>>I guess it's just 'bra' now.
>>'Unmentionables' probably wouldn't be understood at all.
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>>I always loved going to the 'picture show,'
>>but I considered 'movie' an affectation.
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>>Most of these words go back to the '50s,
>>but here's a pure '60s word I came across
>>the other day 'rat fink.' Ooh, what a nasty put-down!
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>>Here's a word I miss - 'percolator.'
>>That was just a fun word to say.
>>And what was it replaced with 'Coffee maker.'
>>How dull... Mr. Coffee, I blame you for this.
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>>I miss those made-up marketing words that were
>>meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro.
>>Words like 'Dyna Flow' and 'Electrolux' and 'Frigidaire'.
>>Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with 'Spectra Vision!'
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>>Food for thought.
>>Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago?
>>Nobody complains of that anymore.
>>Maybe that's what Castor oil cured,
>>because I never hear mothers threatening kids
>>with Castor Oil anymore.
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>>Some words aren't gone, but are definitely
>>on the endangered list.
>>The one that grieves me most is 'supper.'
>>Now everybody says 'dinner.' Save a great word.
>>Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.
MOONIE
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Thanks for that Moonie, brought back a few memory's.
***Merlin***
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Some of those words are still used around here. Emergency brake, store bought (when differentiating between homemade) usually with food like a cake. Running boards is widely used around here when referring to actual running boards on SUV's or trucks as apposed to round step bars.
Some of it is also very regional. words can be totally different even just a couple states away in the USA. In New Jersey, They don't go to the beach, they go to the shore. In the some places in the south and mid-west, soda is called pop. In Illinois a they call cutting in line budging. Just recently herd that one.
Actually, believe it or not, I used to have a 1990 Ford Bronco that still had the high beam switch on the floor! That was rare in 1990
Ray
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I enjoyed reading that. Thank you.
Marg
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Fun post, thank you. Little depressing that I remember every one of those words, from common use!!
Here is a fun nostalgic project I did a couple months ago. I listed all the cars I have owned at one time or another in my life. Then I searched the internet for pictures of each, trying to finds a picture that matched the closest to what I had owned. I have the slide show as my screen savor. It was fun and before I was finished, other family members and relatives gotten involved.
The total end up being 33 cars.
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Desertrat, Just imagine have some of those "goldie oldies" now. There were some I had that would be worth quite a bit of money now. Like the first Corvette. What a beauty that was. Or the Chevy Impala convertible, etc. I am going to quit now, I am suddenly feeling old. :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[
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In an Iowa store, we use a shopping cart. Daughter-in-law born in Oklahoma and now in Texas uses a buggy.
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I remember all of those well. Do you know "cubby hole"?
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Do they still call a "glove box" a glove box?
Let see, in my era we had cranks!!