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Terms Which Have Disappeared
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LizzieMaine
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We had a lot of phrases like that -- outastatahs, summah complaints, from-aways, transplants. The specific phrase used to describe a specific person depended entirely on their attitude.
"Summah Complaint" was the worst, and it isn't exactly a cute, quaint humorous phrase. It was derived from a 19th Century euphemism for dysentery, and the implication was that the person so called was so full of something that they were bubbling over with it.
"Summah Complaint" was the worst, and it isn't exactly a cute, quaint humorous phrase. It was derived from a 19th Century euphemism for dysentery, and the implication was that the person so called was so full of something that they were bubbling over with it.
There is another expression that I heard was used (never heard anyone use it myself) in the area where my wife's parents moved to after they retired. It was basically a farming and fishing area that became a popular retirement location. The term was "come heres," referring to the retired people who had moved there. It changed the character of the area considerably over the years.
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This is a place for casual conversation, for exchanging observations on matters of little real consequence. So wotthehell.
Still, I gotta ask: Do you really believe what I quoted you saying? Research -- you know, science, not anecdotes -- would differ with almost all of it.
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I've seen rotary dial phones and have one from the '60s (non-working) displayed in my living room, but have never used one. Having only used push-button phones and now cell phones--I just thought "dialing a number" was pressing (or for an iPhone "tapping") the numbers to make your call. It made sense to me--but it even makes more sense when you hear the dialing of rotary dial telephone on OTR shows or old movies.
As for "hanging up the phone"--to me, it just meant you'd put the receiver back in its cradle. For a cell phone, to me anyway, "hanging up the phone" just means to tap the "end call" button. After an irate call, one can tap the "End Call" button with more force than usual. It'll do the same thing--end the call.
As for "hanging up the phone"--to me, it just meant you'd put the receiver back in its cradle. For a cell phone, to me anyway, "hanging up the phone" just means to tap the "end call" button. After an irate call, one can tap the "End Call" button with more force than usual. It'll do the same thing--end the call.
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When I worked in Branson in the late 1970s the term for the tourists was "Mullets" (this was prior to the hair style). I have no idea why..
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The last one sounds like a classic New England slam. Are all of those monikers really dead now?
Here the most common one for the tourists is "fudgie" and it's still alive and well. Fudge shops have a long history in the tourist traps in Northern MI, so . . .
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When I lived in North Carolina, people used to refer to "half backs". Apparently, those are "Yankees who went down to Florida, and only made it halfway back".
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December, 2005. IBM Selectric II.
That isn't the one I used in the photo, but I wish I could have figured out a way to sneak the one I did use out of the office before the facility closed. That thing was a real workhorse!
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http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=mullets&FORM=HDRSC2
No further questions...
VOKUHILA...
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=andre+agassi+vokuhila&FORM=HDRSC2
http://www.dict.cc/?s=mullet
"Asi-palm"...
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Some of the tourists had blue hair (old ladies), but there was no one sporting a "Mullet" hair style at the time. It may have been related to the fish as this is a tourist town on a lake.
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LizzieMaine
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We still mutter them under our breath, but uttering them aloud, in these days of gentrification, can be dangerous to one's employment.
LizzieMaine
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Five minutes ago, when I stumbled into the metal typing stand upon which my faithful Royal Model 10 reposes. My eyes are at their weakest when I've just gotten up, so I didn't see it at first. But post-impact, I could see it only too well.
I still use it whenever I need to write a letter that will travel by conventional mail. I don't have a functioning computer printer, and refuse to spend money on one, thus tying myself into the ink/toner cartridge racket. The typewriter is a less costly, more practical alternative.
As far as using a typewriter on a daily basis goes, I used a 1950s-era Royal thruout my radio career, right up to the end in 1997. I then gave it to my then two-year-old niece, who proceeded to destroy it within a week.
MisterCairo
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Theatre season in Stratford, Ontario brings out the Michigan blue hairs...
MisterCairo
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We still say that, and have not had cranked windows in twenty years...
ChiTownScion
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You gave it to a two year old. What did you expect would happen?
I was always chided by my wife about my inability to read little kids before I was a parent. Summer cookout at our house, and my little 4 year old nephew was constantly slamming the back storm door as he was going in & out. I sarcastically asked, "Gee, ___. Why don't you slam it even HARDER??" And of course, he hauled off and slammed it full force. Granted, he never was the brightest kid in the world (but a very sweet one)... but I got a spousal dress down about how little kids can't grasp hyperbole and sarcasm.
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There is possibly no bigger "small" scam perpetrated on us than the ink/toner racket - it makes my blood boil / just reading your post raised my blood pressure.
That said, I still need and use a printer, but treat it like I used to treat long distance phone calls - only when absolutely positively necessary and then try to keep it as limited as possible.
I imagine the gasoline & oil racket bothers you even more. And as far as believing what I wrote (Mr. tonyb), of course I believe it. And since I wrote it, it must be true. My comments are based entirely on a scientific data gathering system called "observation." My notes and comments are necessarily based on relatively limited samples taken five days a week over the last eighteen years. So it was not an exhaustive study, although it was exhausting. No doubt if you did the same thing, your results would be different.
Please note however that I distinguish between cell phones, including smart phones used as a phone, and the use of a smart phone for whatever other purposes they may be good for. I may not have made that clear in my published paper (post 4679). But it is clear (from observation) that driver behavior is decidedly different, if not necessarily up to the standards you were taught in driver's ed. in high school.
But as you say, this is of little importance in the real world. Accidents only happen to other people, after all.
Please note however that I distinguish between cell phones, including smart phones used as a phone, and the use of a smart phone for whatever other purposes they may be good for. I may not have made that clear in my published paper (post 4679). But it is clear (from observation) that driver behavior is decidedly different, if not necessarily up to the standards you were taught in driver's ed. in high school.
But as you say, this is of little importance in the real world. Accidents only happen to other people, after all.
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Wanna buy a bridge?
