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FW: What the heck is a fender skirt?
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> >What the heck is a fender skirt?
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> >I came across this phrase in a book yesterday "FENDER SKIRTS". A term I
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> >haven't heard in a long time and thinking about "fender skirts" started
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> >thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with
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> >Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of
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> >my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will probably have
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> >find some elderly 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
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> >covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln
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> >When did we quit calling them "emergency brakes?" At some point "parking
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> >brake" became the proper term. But I miss the hint of drama that went
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> >"emergency brake."
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> >I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the
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> >accelerator the "foot feed"
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> >Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you
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> >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 -
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> >"store-bought." Of course, just about everything is store-bought these
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> >days. But once it was bragging material to have a store-bought dress or a
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> >store-bought bag of candy.
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> >"Coast to coast" is a phrase that once held all sorts of excitement and
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> >means almost nothing. Now we take the term "world wide" for granted. This
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> >On a smaller scale, "wall-to-wall" was once a magical term in our homes.
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> >the '50s, everyone covered his or her hardwood floors with, wow,
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> >wall-to-wall carpeting! Today, everyone replaces their wall-to-wall
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> >carpeting with hardwood floors. Go figure.
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> >When's the last time you heard the quaint phrase "in a family way?" It's
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> >hard to imagine that the word "pregnant" was once considered a little too
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> >graphic, a little too clinical for use in polite company. So we had all
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> >that talk about stork visits and "being in a family way" or
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> >simply"expecting."
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> >Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in usage. I said it the other
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> >day and my daughter cracked up. I guess it's just "bra" now
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> >"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
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> >Most of these words go back to the '50s, but here's a pure-'60s word I
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> >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
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> >what was it replaced with? "Coffee maker." How dull. Mr. Coffee, I blame
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> >you for this.
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> >I miss those made-up marketing words that were meant to sound so modern
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> >now sound so retro. Words like "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux." Introducing
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> >1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"
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> >Food for thought - Was there a telethon that wiped out lumbago? Nobody
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> >complains of that anymore. Maybe that's what castor oil cured, because I
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> >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
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> >that grieves me most "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great
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> >word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.
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> >Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a "certain age"
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> >remember most of these.
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> >Just for fun, Pass it along to others of "a certain age"
