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Posted on 05/05/2016 5:03:45 AM PDT by harpygoddess
"Hang up the phone." comes from one specific kind of land-line phone that had a kind of hook you'd hang the handset from when you were done. Doing so would pull down the hook that was connected to a switch inside the phone that would disconnect the line.
And lots of nautical stuff:
Groggy - In 1740, British Admiral Vernon (whose nickname was "Old Grogram" for the cloak of grogram which he wore) ordered that the sailors' daily ration of rum be diluted with water. The men called the mixture "grog". A sailor who drank too much grog was "groggy".
Leeway - The weather side of a ship is the side from which the wind is blowing. The Lee side is the side of the ship sheltered from the wind. A lee shore is a shore that is downwind of a ship. If a ship does not have enough "leeway" it is in danger of being driven onto the shore.
Pipe Down - Means stop talking and be quiet. The Pipe Down was the last signal from the Bosun's pipe each day which meant "lights out" and "silence".
Slush Fund - A slushy slurry of fat was obtained by boiling or scraping the empty salted meat storage barrels. This stuff called "slush" was often sold ashore by the ship's cook for the benefit of himself or the crew. The money so derived became known as a slush fund.
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Note: this topic is from . Thanks harpygoddess. This got added to the GGG catalog long ago, but never got the standard message or a ping.
The dial is right next to the Any key.
Going back to earlier times, “slave driver.”
“Got their teat caught in the wringer”.
Try telling someone that it was a “Kodak moment” and you’ll get a puzzled sideways look!
... ice was delivered to your “ice box” to keep your milk cold. I even remember it delivered by a horse drawn wagon!
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Absolutely!
And the ragman, who also has a horse-drawn wagon.
Turn the channel
"Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie."
LOL, I remember my grandparents used to yell “Pipe down!” to me and my many cousins when we were little kids, running around making noise. Haven’t heard that one in decades. ;-)
Hey Ditter. Been a while.
I can remember the ice man delivering ice for our wooden ice box.
We have a service station here in town that has 'full service' with a fill-up. You pull in and five guys/gals immediately fill your gas tank, fluff your tires, vacuum your inside floors, clean all your windows, check your oil and radiator water, all in about three minutes. They've been doing this since the early 60's. The attendants are young people and they're so friendly that you want to give them a tip.
A lot of young people don’t know what a dial is.
You’re right I thought everybody knew dial is a bar soap!!!
:-)
Maybe I can find one in the glovebox. Glove compartment. Whatever. Needle is stuck.
You can still say that in New Jersey and Oregon. We still have a few gas stations locally that are called full serve as opposed to self serve and can say that but you pay more for that.
Sorry but I still have one of those fuse boxes in my workshop and have used the penny until I got a new fuse.
My wife still calls the refrigerator the “Icebox” even through she has never used one. Its what her grandmother called it.
Don’t forget to “pull the chain”...
It was a moth and she taped it to a page in her notebook with a notation. Documentation.
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