Posted on 12/20/2005 10:55:40 PM PST by Mo1
Hey...get back to work now. Pup needs his checks.
Actually...gotta go....bbl.
I work 24/7!!!
Yes.
Also, the Texas coach seems to be a nice guy. He praised USC and did not say anything to diminish that team. I'm not so sure about the blow dried USC coach who took the halftime interview to diss his own Heisman winner: (paraphrased) "We don't normally play like that. I don't know why Reggie tried to lateral the ball."
Anyway, it was a great game played by two great teams.
Has anyone heard from Gran??
This was her last post Dec 30, 2005
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1544487/posts?page=1234#1234
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Ahem....*attmepting to regain composure*
Agreed. One of the better I've seen. It was close to a replay of last year's Rose Bowl.......was very deja vu to me. Wonder which NFL team is going to draft Evans?
Hey......couldn't help but notice you said you were a Mom. Details?
Are they with you down there?
Ages?
That kitten is so cute!!!
Thought I would forward this on to you all for some nostalgia. Some of you might remember some of these, but maybe not... Hope you enjoy a bit of our American past!!!
>>What the heck is a fender skirt?
>>I came across this phrase in a book 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.
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>>Like "curb feelers" and "steering knobs." Since I'd been thinking of cars, my mind naturally went that direction first. Any kids will probably have to 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 tire covers that were supposed to make any car as cool as a Lincoln Continental.
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>>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 the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed"
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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 "world wide" 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'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."
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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 "DynaFlow" and "Electrolux." Introducing the 1963 Admiral TV, now with "SpectraVision!"
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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 "supper." Now everybody says "dinner." Save a great word. Invite someone to supper. Discuss fender skirts.
It took me a while to get rid of the >>>'s and post it, LOL!!
It's been raining here it seems like forever, so I guess that's why the nostalgia is getting passed around today.
Suppose it's nice and sunny where you are?
Dang........sorry.....
:-)
I guess it was kind of sunny today, right now it's 40* and windy.
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