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  1. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Does anyone remember the term "skew gee" for something that was off kilter, cockeyed or cattywampus? The opposite was "skew hunky".
  2. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    You have a problem so you think, I will ask an old timer but you can't find one. Then you know, you are the old timer now.
  3. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Buckwheat pancakes topped with butter and brown sugar or molasses. Bacon. Glass of milk. I felt like buckwheat pancakes today.
  4. Stanley Doble

    1870s to 1914

    A lot of Mark Twain's stuff fits in this period. All his travel books, The Gilded Age, and he did a lot of essays on current events like the Spanish American war, the exploitation of the Congo by King Leopold, the Austro-Hungarian constitutional crisis, his impressions of Germany, France, Italy...
  5. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Boiled potatoes and onion gravy made of Lipton's onion soup.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Whenever I hear someone say "failure is not an option" I feel like saying, "yeah it comes as standard equipment".
  8. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Lizzie I hope you get a kick out of this. It is a documentary about the ZIS auto and truck factory in Moscow and the last limousines they built for Soviet big wigs to ride in the May Day parade. I guarantee you it was unionized before 1941. Whether it has been swept since I leave up to you...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Getting back to disturbing realizations- I was thinking as I read this site, of how nearly all the clothes, hats, furniture etc of bygone ages was worn out, decayed, thrown out and disappeared and what we have left is a small remnant that luckily survives in good condition. Then it occurred to...
  10. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Had a big lunch so just had a slice of ham and some coleslaw.
  11. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    A friend took me out for sushi.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Who got the oldest computer-contest! ;-)

    I've got a Sinclair but don't use it.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Which funny videos are you watching?

    An old favorite of mine - Conditional Discharge - Don't Try To Lay No Boogie Woogie On The King Of Rock And Roll by Long John Baldry ably assisted by Elton John
  15. Stanley Doble

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    I actually encountered the word 'groovy' in a very square English short story from about 1900. It was about a man who either fell from an upper story window or jumped. His middle aged spinster sister got to brooding about his death until it became an obsession. Her doctor said she had gotten...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Or my grandmother. She could curse you out in at least 3 languages and if she gave you a backhander you would be pinched for speeding in China.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    The all purpose insults of the forties and fifties were son of a bitch and ba***rd. Real creative cursing was rare. Only used when very angry. And of course never indulged in while the fair sex was present.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    One gesture ruined Titanic for me. When the young couple dodged a guard and jumped into an elevator she flipped him the bird. No, no, no, no. She would have thumbed her nose at him. She would have no idea the other gesture existed . The slang thing ruins a lot of movies for me. I like Sherlock...
  20. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Invented a new soup recipe yesterday. A barbecue pork and bean soup or pulled pork soup. Started with 1kg of ham hocks and a 900g bag of dry lima beans. I think if I make it again I will use white kidney beans. Soak the beans overnight. Put beans and ham hocks in slow cooker with a 455 ml...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I wasn't going to reply to this, thinking you were kidding. But just in case you never figured it out the origin of the term probably came from the contrast between the 'carriage trade' and the 'pedestrian trade'.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Wood-carburator suggests it has been out of commission since 1945. For those who question the burning of wood, the compression on those old trucks was so low you could burn leaves (old joke).
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