Jinglebob
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kolanuraven said:
Only physically Kola, only physically. :wink:
Inside we are just as young, or even younger. :lol:
Long as they don't cut us down and count our rings, we'll be fine.
remember the 60's?
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Only physically Kola, only physically. :wink:
Inside we are just as young, or even younger. :lol:
Long as they don't cut us down and count our rings, we'll be fine.
angus guy
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Only the real oldies will remember what a green river is. Only place I know to get one is the soda shop on the Indiana State Fairgrounds.
angus guy
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Here's a few more for all of you youngsters.
I came across this phrase yesterday…
"FENDER SKIRTS".
A term I haven't heard in a long time and thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like "curb feelers"
And "steering knobs." (AKA) suicide knob
Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.
Any kids will probably have to find som e elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you.
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."
< BR> I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed."
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?
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.
"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term "world wide" for granted. This floors me.
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.
When's 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."
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.
I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an affectation.
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!
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.
I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"
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.
Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fen der skirts.
Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a "certain age" would remember most of these.
Just for fun, Pass it along to others of "a certain age"!
I came across this phrase yesterday…
"FENDER SKIRTS".
A term I haven't heard in a long time and thinking about "fender skirts" started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice like "curb feelers"
And "steering knobs." (AKA) suicide knob
Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first.
Any kids will probably have to find som e elderly person over 50 to explain some of these terms to you.
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."
< BR> I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed."
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?
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.
"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and now means almost nothing. Now we take the term "world wide" for granted. This floors me.
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.
When's 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."
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.
I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an affectation.
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!
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.
I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"
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.
Some words aren't gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fen der skirts.
Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a "certain age" would remember most of these.
Just for fun, Pass it along to others of "a certain age"!
ummm IL, sweet heart, love muffin, darling. The ice cream man you were talking about drives past my house almost every day. Are you sure the short term memory's not going, just a little.
Angus guy, please dont ever say steering knob in front of a Canadian. There will be sniggers and stiffled giggles. I assure you
Angus guy, please dont ever say steering knob in front of a Canadian. There will be sniggers and stiffled giggles. I assure you
the_jersey_lilly_2000
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You left one out....."White Walls"
Mama hadda 1966 Cadillac that had them big old fender skirts.....made changin a flat tire a lil more difficult. but one good thang I remember about that Cadillac, we were on vacation and somethin happened to the oil filter.....a roll of Toilet Paper could be placed in the deal that held the filter and you could make it on to whereever it was you were goin, then find the real deal.
I still call it an emergency brake. LOL
I still use a perculator coffee pot...yeap on the burner with the lil glass knob on top to see when "it's done".
Mama hadda "Filter Queen" canister style Vaccuum cleaner. with aallllllll the attachments......I can't tell you how many times she switched it to blow insteada suck, and used it for a blow dryer on me. Nothin like takin a bath and washin yer hair, smellin all fresh and clean...then gettin that dirt smell blowed in yer hair!!!!!
I hated that.
Mama hadda 1966 Cadillac that had them big old fender skirts.....made changin a flat tire a lil more difficult. but one good thang I remember about that Cadillac, we were on vacation and somethin happened to the oil filter.....a roll of Toilet Paper could be placed in the deal that held the filter and you could make it on to whereever it was you were goin, then find the real deal.
I still call it an emergency brake. LOL
I still use a perculator coffee pot...yeap on the burner with the lil glass knob on top to see when "it's done".
Mama hadda "Filter Queen" canister style Vaccuum cleaner. with aallllllll the attachments......I can't tell you how many times she switched it to blow insteada suck, and used it for a blow dryer on me. Nothin like takin a bath and washin yer hair, smellin all fresh and clean...then gettin that dirt smell blowed in yer hair!!!!!
I hated that.I do not remember the 60's....I was born in November of 1971. but I do have a grand memory. I remember the first time I walked, the first time I crawled, I remember the first time I tried "baby food". hell I even remember one cold February evening in 1971, when I went to the dance with dad, and came home with mom ! :lol: :shock: :lol:
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jigs said:
So jigs......still wanna sit in my swing cause seems I'm an " older woman" :lol: :lol:
andybob
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The sixties were so great that we extended them by 15 years in Rhodesia. When sanctions were imposed in 1965, not much changed untill they were dropped in 1980, we still had returnable soda bottles, drove 60's cars etc, I felt as though my teen years were extended by ten years!
IL Rancher
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Uhm Pookie... I didn't mention the ice cream man so it must not be my short term memory playing tricks on me.. You must be seeing things agai... Poor, poor pookie..
As far as a green river.. I have had af ew of those in my life.. Have seen them in a few places but none for a while...But 15 years ago and when I was in college in Evanston you could get them anywhere you wanted too..
As far as a green river.. I have had af ew of those in my life.. Have seen them in a few places but none for a while...But 15 years ago and when I was in college in Evanston you could get them anywhere you wanted too..
