NEED SOME RELIEF

Daniella Bianci--From Russia with Love-- Not our favorite Bond Girl, but she'll do in a pinch, I suppose. But a big let-down from Ursula Andress in Dr. No...

It is 8:24 a.m. and 37. 6 degrees out. Still some snow on the ground. Junior and Patrick are asleep in his room.

GATORS: Well Super Tim came in third in the Heisman balloting, but garnered the most First Place votes. That's rare, if it's even ever happened before. Oh, well, puts a HUGE Target on Bradford's back! Maybe we don't need the pressure.

Having not even finished our Family Guy marathon, we have embarked on a James Bond marathon, Dr. No and From Russia with Love are completed, 18 to go. I read all of Flemming's novels years ago.

We shall prepare a spreadsheet comparing all the films for Bond elements like number of conquests, kills, martini's, Bond Girl's names, Tossing his hat, kissing moneypenny, "bond-James Bond", Gadgets, etc. type of weapons and cars, plus of course an evaluation of Bond Girls. I guess this was prompted by the lack of so many of them in the latest "Bond" film...

FROM THE INBOX:

I came across this phrase 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 like "curb feelers"

And "steering knobs." (AKA) suicide knob


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.
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.

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."

I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the accelerator the "foot feed."

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?

Here's a phrase I heard all the time in my youth but ever 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.

"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.

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.

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."

Apparently "brassiere" is a word no longer in sage. 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.?

I always loved going to the "picture show," but I considered "movie" an affectation
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!

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.

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!"?

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
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.

Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a "certain age" would remember most of these.

Just for fun, Pass it along to others of "a certain age"!

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