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    Spear point collar shirts

    Found an interesting The Men’s Store shirt from Sears and appears to be NOS. It still has the printed laundry markings, but calls it a cape collar. Still serviceable with a collar bar so I suppose it’s spearpoint-like. Unfortunately it is 100% polyester so it gets a little warm. It looks...
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    Show us your TIES

    How interesting. Most ties of the period have vertical sewn tags or the labels are too small or square-shaped to comfortably hold the tie tail. I wonder if this can help date a tie or if there was a point before these sewn horizontal tie holders became universal.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A variant is still used in the Fruit Roll Up commercials, “Who knows what fruit roll ups will we roll out next?”
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I still use the old rabbit ears to pull in the digital broadcasts through the converter box on the TV. Still have some dropouts when the cars are passing by. No loud static, though the sound still continues when the picture freezes. Reception is better at night like usual. I might need to get...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There’s probably a strong association with “How do you do?” and “how now brown cow” when teaching the round vowel sound in comical elocution skits.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Channel 3/4 or LINE has been moved to SOURCE INPUT. Of course then it becomes a matter of how well you’ve labeled things. I’ve been trying to repair this old Philco Predicta and the converter box still instructs to select the Channel 3 or 4 so the set can understand the signal.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was trying to explain the “wee paws for station identification” joke the other day. I suppose terrestrial radio doesn’t use the phrase as much anymore and the station call letters are slipped into the sentence “This is 105.1 FM KXCX”. I was trying to find an actual example of the phrase being...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I rewatched 12 Angry Men and noticed the continuous towel dispenser in the public bathroom; the type that was a cloth towel mounted in an endless loop. I’ve always wondered if they were particularly hygienic or if they were washed often. Apparently they are still sold today though I’ve never...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There’s a whole branch of linguistics dedicated to how words can change to their opposite meaning over time. Terrific, awful, and decimate come to mind. Inflammable was confusing. There’s many types of meaning changes, but the semantic change page lists auto-antonym or contronym for words that...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Technically a picture of Lincoln giving the Getty’s bird a dress does exist. As I recall, it came from the old Photoshop contest site, Worth1000, coincidently enough.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They poked fun at it on an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, a Canadian detective drama set in Victorian times. Though the anachronistic inventions are somewhat eye-rolling: “You’ve sent a facsimile of an image through the air with the telegraph and paint by number instructions. Whatever shall you...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    People still do the “Shave and a haircut” knock. Though Roger Rabbit may continue to immortalize the “Two bits” response.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There’s a very vivid description in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio about the mother using a hot iron to repair rubber girdles (a letter to Maidenform prompted an apology and the last of their stock). Except they would fail periodically and important occasions were marked with last minute...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Did people actually say that? It tends to be construed as a stereotype like the Cockney “‘ello Guv’nor”. The BBC Comic Relief special for Call the Midwife lampshaded it with one of the actors from the show spouting “reassuring posh 50s speak”. There’s something about having the ensemble cast...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Unfortunately automobile driving directions rarely follow straight through routes like that. Unless you’re on one of Roosevelt’s famous point to point walks.
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    Show us your TIES

    Found this blue Lilly Daché tie with gold accent marks and a small logo at the bottom. It resembles that unnamed 60s tie design with the central decorative motif that I like. But by all accounts, it feels like a modern tie with the thicker/stiffer feeling interfacing and a back label that’s...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There’s variants like “hell-bent for leather” or “bat out of hell”.
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    Show us your TIES

    I’m a bit curious as to whether these spectacularly narrow bow ties existed as a self-tie or if they were all pre-tied clip ons. They appear to be very skinny batwing bow ties, but I haven’t found a self-tied version that makes a bowtie that narrow. Seems like you’d need stiff material to...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I believe there was an episode of CSI where they were trying to find the bullet. One of the investigators found the slug buried halfway through the phone book. He muttered, “So, let your fingers do the walking!” to which the other coworker replied, “What?” and he replied, “Never mind you...
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    "Vintage-style Boxer Shorts... any interest"

    Always willing to find a new source of yoke front boxers. Does the waistband have straps or elastic? What patterns are you planning?

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