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HubCap
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WORDS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
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8/20/2011 5:28:22 AM (updated 8/20/2011 5:29:32 AM)
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Words YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
Be sure to refill the ice trays, we're going
to have company.
Watch for the postman, I want to get this
letter to Willie in the mail today .
Quit slamming the screen door when you go out
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Be sure and pull the windows down when you
leave, it looks like a shower is coming up.
Don't forget to wind the clock before you go
to bed.
Wash your feet before you go to bed, you've
been playing outside all day barefooted.
Why can't you remember to roll up your
britches legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing
them up.
You have torn the knees out of that pair of
pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.
Don't you go outside with your school clothes
on!
Go comb your hair, it looks like the rats have
nested in it all night.
Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the
milk when you open the new bottle.
Take that empty bottle to the store with you
so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.
Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies
won't get on it.
Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in
the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!
Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes
by, I need to get a few things from him.
You boys stay close by, the car may not start
and I will need you to help push it off.
There's a dollar in my purse, get 5 gallons of
gas when you go to town.
Open the back door and see if we can get a
breeze through here, it is getting hot.
You can walk to the store; it won't hurt you
to get some exercise. Don't sit too close to the TV. It is hard on
your eyes.
If you pull that stunt again, I am going to
wear you out!
Don't lose that button; I'll sew it back on
after a while.
Wash under your neck before you come to the
table, you have beads of dirt and sweat all under there.
Get out from under the sewing machine; pumping
it messes up the thread!
Be sure and fill the lamps this morning so we
don't have to do that tonight in the dark.
Here, take this old magazine to the toilet
with you when you go, we are almost out of paper out there.
Go out to the well and draw a bucket of water
so I can wash dishes.
Don't turn the radio on now, I want the
battery to be up when the Grand Ole Opry comes on.
No! I don't have 10 cents for you to go to the
show. Do you think money grows on trees?
Eat those turnips, they'll make you big and
strong like your daddy.
That dog is NOT coming in this house! I don't
care how cold it is out there, dogs don't stay in the house.
Sit still! I'm trying to get your hair cut
straight and you keep moving and it is all messed up.
Hush your mouth! I don't want to hear words
like that! I'll wash your mouth out with soap!
It is time for your system to be cleaned out.
I am going to give you a dose of castor oil tonight.
If you get a spanking in school and I find out
about it, you'll get another one when you get home.
Quit crossing your eyes! They will get stuck
that way!
Soak your foot in this pan of kerosene so that
bad cut won't get infected.
When you take your driving test, don't forget
to signal each turn.
Left arm straight out the window for a left
turn;
left arm bent up at the elbow for a right
turn;
and straight down to the side of the door when
you are going to stop.
It's: 'Yes Ma'am!' and 'No Ma'am!' to me,
young man, and don't you forget it!
Y'all come back now, ya hear.
Great Memories.!!
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rude evin
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8/20/2011 10:28:00 AM
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Thanks for that slow ride down memory lane............
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architect
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8/20/2011 11:53:19 AM (updated 8/20/2011 11:55:16 AM)
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I'm familiar with most of them. I also remember my mama telling me "Wipe that sour look of your face...it might freeze that way". My daddy talked of it being "Hot as blixum" or "cold as flugens" and my grandma cautioned my cousins and me "Now don't tarry long at the store".
Once common expressions and items are being slowly killed off by technology. A school teacher friend told me several years ago of a 3d grader who asked her why she called it "dialing" a phone number? Several months ago I saw an early 20's something "kid" writing a check in a bank with a work of art, namely a beautiful honest to God fountain pen, something I'd not seen in years.
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architect
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BTW
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8/20/2011 4:02:46 PM
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Hub's post included a mention of the "Fuller Brush Man". Are any of you aware of or do you remember the "Jewell Tea Man"? When I was growing up in the 50's the Jewell Tea salesman came to our house every other week on Thursday nights. He of course sold tea and coffee, but he also sold cleaning products, a line of dishes, pots and pans and even shelf liner that had a printed decoration pattern "coordinated" with their dishes. We still serve ice tea from a big ceramic pitcher my mother bought from him when I was in elementary school. Good memories!
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GaBoy
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BTW
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8/22/2011 10:45:56 AM
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Oh the memories!! I remember the Fuller brush man, the Charles chips man and the milkman as if it was yesterday. Too bad it was yesteryear. And don't forget the paperboy!!
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architect
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BTW
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8/22/2011 5:29:57 PM
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He//, I can even remember the ice man. He didn't deliver to our house but still made the rounds to a few places in our neighborhood.
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buzzbuster
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WORDS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
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8/22/2011 11:27:08 PM
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Fill'er up - check you oil and trans. fluid - wash you windsheild - check the air in your tires and all for the price of gas weather it was high test or regular. If you can remember the good old days it was a slower time.
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architect
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WORDS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
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8/23/2011 9:02:12 AM
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Yeah, and the gas was 28 cents a gallon except when a "price war" pushed it down to 22 cents!!! Hmm, "price war" seems to be one of those disappearing phrases too.
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HubCap
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WORDS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
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8/23/2011 11:15:53 AM
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Did you ever have the Watkins Man that came around through the country selling cleaning products, candies, and Liniments for ( humans, animals, and foul they all looked and smelt the same )
also had farm replacements like plow points, axes, hoes, etc.
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muddauber
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8/23/2011 5:40:25 PM
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I do recall. Gas was 12c when I started driving. Recall a price war with gas at 9c.
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architect
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8/23/2011 5:55:49 PM
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Don't remember the Watkins man but do remember when young country kids came around selling "The Grit" newspaper and "Cloverine" salve. Something else that seems to have gone forever...punchboards in country stores.
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Mack
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WORDS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
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8/23/2011 6:40:00 PM
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Plus, Camphophenique(?) or Mercurichrome for cuts rather then the ER:: A monthly dose of Cod Liver Oil::
6 1/2 oz. Coke for 5 cents:: Clothes pin/playing card flapper on my bike:: Box fans in windows at night::
Golden Eagle Table Syrup:: Recapped tires:: Cooking with lard:: Wearing Hand-Me-Down clothes:: Soggy Mater snndwich for school lunch:: Drive-In theater with family on Saturday nite:: Many, many more.
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muddauber
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WORDS YOU DON'T HEAR ANYMORE.
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8/23/2011 9:21:00 PM
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I remember the Italian van that sold cases of spaghetti, whole wheel cheese etc. Came by monthly. The spaghetti came in a large u shape. To fit into a large ( enought to feed three families worth pot), it had to be broken in three. While we may have a tomatoe based sauce for the Sunday familes gathering, for ourselves we would add some butter and parsley to the starchy water for most meals.
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