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Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 6:41 pm
by BillB
Here are some terms I use that I've noticed get blank stares from people under 30...
Bill Dukie - I asked for one at Home Depot. The kid didn't know what it was.
Slop Jar - Mom was throwing up in the hospital. I ran to the hall and asked the nurse for a slop jar. She didn't know what it was. How can a nurse not know that?
Doily - Huh? What's that?
Can you think of any?
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:33 pm
by ralph
hot water bottle . ---- [maybe] , cloth diapers .
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:38 pm
by GFB
Words can date me?
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:40 pm
by crocmommy
Icebox-I keep telling my inlaws that I do not own an icebox!!
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:08 pm
by BillB
crocmommy wrote:Icebox-I keep telling my inlaws that I do not own an icebox!!
Good one. I say icebox.
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:12 pm
by Fitzroy
Record store
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:41 pm
by Red Oak
Church key
Foot feed
Dashboard - this one made a comeback in management circles
Go devil
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:46 pm
by BillB
Go devil must have been after my time.
What is it?
I called anything with a turntable, a Victrola.
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:58 pm
by Cowman52
To farmers it was a kind of sweep you plowed cotton with.
Chamber pot
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:59 pm
by Red Oak
Cowman got it.
Vacuum sweeper.
AOL
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:15 am
by millergrovesue
Neat
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:18 am
by GRANDPA
Groovy, man. I really dig this far out scene.
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:24 am
by grouchy
Washtub
Outhouse
Choppin cotton
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 5:03 pm
by Cowman52
You can't chop cotton and not pull cotton.
Grand dad called the car trunk the turtle.
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 5:23 pm
by BillB
Cowman52 wrote:You can't chop cotton and not pull cotton.
Grand dad called the car trunk the turtle.
I remember the "turtle". I had forgotten all about it. It's probably been 50 years since I've heard it.
Thanks!!
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 6:02 pm
by GFB
Would 23 skidoo date me?
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 7:46 pm
by planosteve
The picture show
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:22 pm
by geeiabil
planosteve wrote:The picture show
You need to both mispronounce and misspell it pitcher.
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2015 9:30 pm
by planosteve
Lye Soap
Re: Words that date you
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2015 8:47 am
by millergrovesue
Just heard on WBAP - three on the tree. Hadn't heard that in years.
And speaking of soap - my Dad's favorite Grandpa's Pine Tar Soap. Yes, it stunk.
witch hazel
scour the sink
scrub the floor