The Way We Talked In The 50s Fender Skirts What a blast from the past! I had not thought about fender skirts in years. When I was a child, I considered it such a funny term. It made me think of a car in a dress. Did you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home so you could ride the "running board" up to the house? Thinking about fender skirts started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice. Curb-feelers and steering knobs. Since I had been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. The current generation of teenagers will probably have to find some elderly person over 65 to explain some of these terms. Remember Continental kits? They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as 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. I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not 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 fender skirts. Home Page Previous Page Next Page Overview Page Sign Guestbook View Guestbook © 2000 [email protected]
The Way We Talked In The 50s
Fender Skirts What a blast from the past! I had not thought about fender skirts in years. When I was a child, I considered it such a funny term. It made me think of a car in a dress. Did you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home so you could ride the "running board" up to the house? Thinking about fender skirts started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice. Curb-feelers and steering knobs. Since I had been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. The current generation of teenagers will probably have to find some elderly person over 65 to explain some of these terms. Remember Continental kits? They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as 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. I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Did you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home so you could ride the "running board" up to the house? Thinking about fender skirts started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice. Curb-feelers and steering knobs. Since I had been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. The current generation of teenagers will probably have to find some elderly person over 65 to explain some of these terms. Remember Continental kits? They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as 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. I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Thinking about fender skirts started me thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with hardly a notice. Curb-feelers and steering knobs. Since I had been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. The current generation of teenagers will probably have to find some elderly person over 65 to explain some of these terms. Remember Continental kits? They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as 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. I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
The current generation of teenagers will probably have to find some elderly person over 65 to explain some of these terms.
Remember Continental kits? They were rear bumper extenders and spare tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as 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. I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
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. I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
I am sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the foot feed. (This floors me...LOL) I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
I always loved going to the "picture show" , but I considered "movie" an affection. Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Here is a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but never anymore....store-bought . '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 bad of candy or store-bought bread. 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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
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. On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
On a smaller scale, wall-to-wall was once a magical term in our homes. In the '50s, everyone covered their hardwood floors with, wow, wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall carpeting with hardwood floors. When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
When was the last time you heard the quaint phrase in a family way ? It is 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 usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Apparently brassiere is a word no longer in usuage. I said it the other day and my granddaughter cackled. I guess it is just bra now. (Unmentionables probably would not be understood at all!) It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
It is hard to recall that this word was once said in a whisper - divorce. And no one is called a divorcee anymore....certainly not a gay divorcee. Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Come to think of it, confirmed bachelors and career girls are long gone, too. Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Most of these words go back to the '50s. but here is a pure 60s word..... rat fink . Ooh, what a nasty put-down! Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Here is a word I miss - percolator . That was 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 ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
I miss those made up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern and now sound so retro. Words like DynaFlow and ElectraLuxe . 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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
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 is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out Lumbago? Nobody complains of that anymore. Maybe that is what castor oil cured because I never hear mothers threatening their children with castor oil anymore. It might have been wiped out with that magic elixir "Hadacol" . They hada call it something. Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
Some words are not gone, but are definitely on the endangered list. The one that grieves me most - supper. Now everybody says "dinner".
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