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What Words Do You Use that "Date" You?

 
 
plainoldme
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:11 pm
@PUNKEY,
Davenport would certainly date anyone!

When I was in elementary school, there was a sort of campfire song that was popular which involved verses that began with spelling a word. I knew three verses: CASTOR OIL, LOLLIPOP and DAVENPORT.

The verse for the last went like this:

D-A-V-E-N-P-ORT spells davenport.
It's the only to decent place to date on
(then a line I don't remember)
(another line I don't remember)
D-A-V-E-N-P- ORT you see!
it's a hug and a squeeze
and an oh, Johnny, please!
Davenport for me.
Eva
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:18 pm
@Joe Nation,
Neat!
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:29 pm
@Eva,
Yea, I still say that. Circa 1962.
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plainoldme
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:35 pm
My grandmother called a refrigerator a Frigidaire. That is akin to saying davenport or kleenex.
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Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:36 pm
@plainoldme,
Ummm, so what is a davenport?
Rockhead
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:37 pm
@Ceili,
a make-out couch.

gram had one, but I never saw it used for that...
Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:44 pm
@Rockhead,
Would that be the same as a love seat?
ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:48 pm
@Ceili,
No, it would be like sofa. Possibly of the tailored sort. I suppose I could look it up. We used to have one. Looked like a sofa to me. Also commonly known as the couch.
Rockhead
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:49 pm
@Ceili,
but older and more out of style.

hers had no arms.
Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:51 pm
@ossobuco,
No worries, osso. I looked them up, it's your version of chesterfield.
Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:52 pm
@Rockhead,
Thanks Rockhead.
I looked them up. Very 60's. Sleek. I kinda like them.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:52 pm
@Ceili,
Now to go look up chesterfield. Cigarettes, if I remember..
Ceili
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:55 pm
@ossobuco,
I grew up calling a couch/sofa a chesterfield, a very canadian term. I believe these couches were first made in Chesterfield, England, but maybe it was a canadian company?? Not sure.
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Wed 12 Jan, 2011 10:56 pm
@ossobuco,
wiki -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_(sofa)

ours was uniquely uncomfortable because of the deep green prickly sort of material that covered it, and the accompanying chair (which I'll venture to call perhaps wrongly a Morris chair). I read Tale of Two Cities in that chair in a very long day and had bruised elbows from putting my arms on the arm rest...
Ragman
 
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Reply Thu 13 Jan, 2011 12:35 am
@ossobuco,
would that be same as divan?
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Thu 13 Jan, 2011 01:20 am
@djjd62,
djjd62 wrote:
wow, didn't think many folks outside britain used gear, unless you're a junky Razz
Gear has meant equipment, now
and in all earlier decades in modern times.





David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Thu 13 Jan, 2011 01:21 am

"That 's neat" (replaced by that 's cool).





David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Thu 13 Jan, 2011 01:36 am

"Square" meant conservative,
as in "a square count" meaning forthright and non-deceptive; non-jazzy, non-aberrant.
"Old stick-in-the-mud"

Such a man was characterized as being "a square"; I never adopted that usage.





David
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hawkeye10
 
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Reply Thu 13 Jan, 2011 01:53 am
skedaddle
chippy
highball
rabbit ears
hootenanny
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/dead-language/

Scooter (to discribe a person)
barn burner
broad
chick
commie fag (what can I say, I grew up in a conservative part of the mid-west)
pinko
battle royal
donnybrook
ruckus
rumpus
wrangle
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Phoenix32890
 
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Reply Thu 13 Jan, 2011 05:10 am
When someone asks me, "What time is it?", the first thing that comes to mind is............................ Laughing

potsy
hula hoops
stoop
Good Humor Man
ringalevio
bottle blonde
test pattern (on T.V.)
nickel pickle
skate keys
78 r.p.m. records
Polaroids





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