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Downtown Saturday Nite AUG. 14, 2010

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'FENDER SKIRTS.'   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, Neckers Knobs.  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 70 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.'  Many today do not even know what a clutch is or that the 'DIMMER SWITCH' used to be on the floor.. Didn't you ever wait at the street for you 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 never 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 usage. I said it the other day and my daughter crackedu p. 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 acorss the other day - 'RAT FINK.' Ooh, waht a nasty put-down!  Here's a word I miss - 'PERCOLATOR.' That was just a fund word to say. And what was it replaced with? 'Coffee make.'  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 compalins of that anymore. Maybe that's what 'CASTOR OIL' cured, because I never hear mothers threatening kids with castor oil anymore. W hen was the last time you got a call from the operator saying 'LONG  DISTANCE'  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..