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Corbin, I have been looking around Blogit today, and I just ran across this
post of yours that I missed the first time around. I love posts like this one; you know i love all things Southern. I'm sorry I missed this post the first time around, but so glad I found it today. I still say "store-bought" sometimes (it will just slip out) and I still say late every afternoon..."I'm fixin' to go cook supper." Some things never change...and never will! LOL! Thanks, Corbin, for the memories.
posted by
muser
on August 20, 2007 at 8:54 AM
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Corbin D....truth is, when you use an old fashioned potato masher you don't
need to then put the spuds in a mixer !!!!
posted by
reasons
on August 18, 2006 at 3:24 PM
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Nice post, Corbin,
I like to think of nostalgic things sometimes. :)
posted by
BlackPearl1
on August 18, 2006 at 3:08 PM
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muser.......
I've seen those up in Lancaster County, PA
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 18, 2006 at 8:22 AM
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No Corbin, but we have a neighbor up the road a ways who has an old iron
bed painted white and filled with summer flowers up by their
mailbox ...get it? It's a flower bed!
posted by
muser
on August 18, 2006 at 8:00 AM
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Muser......
Not even one that's been turned inside out and cut to look like a crown????
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 18, 2006 at 5:35 AM
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Corbin...Max and I eat supper every night....I still precede sentences with
" I'm fixin' to...", I still give country directions..."Oh, it's just a little piece up (or down) the road..." I don't pronounce my ing endins...there's a fall festival we attend every year when we're home where we eat lard biscuits cooked in a wood stove...what can I say except...American by birth...Southern by the Grace of God! And no, we do not fly the Confederate flag, or wear sheets or have a white painted tire in our front yard with pink petunias planted in it...
posted by
muser
on August 17, 2006 at 9:48 PM
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my grandma got to use the famous wall to wall phrase with pride.
posted by
Root05
on August 17, 2006 at 9:43 AM
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Corbin, when I was a kid, we used to have an "ice box" at our cottage..
and an ice man would deliver the blocks of ice daily... my uncles' cars had "running boards" that I thought were very cool..
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posted by
Rumor
on August 17, 2006 at 8:55 AM
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Carl says supper
my daughter and I make snow ice cream every winter and I sitll call that thing about my fridge an ice box. Guess I am just old.
posted by
bel_1965
on August 17, 2006 at 7:11 AM
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Blonde....let's rewind......
Bubbler is a trademarked name that refers to a drinking fountain. The term is still used in several regional dialects of the United States such as in Wisconsin, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, as well as in New South Wales, Australia.
The Bubbler was developed in 1888 by the then-small Kohler Water Works (now Kohler Company) in Kohler, Wisconsin. While Harlan Huckleby is credited with the actual design, it was Kohler that patented it and trademarked the name. The original Bubbler shot water straight into the air, creating a bubbling texture as the water cascaded back into the original stream.
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 17, 2006 at 6:48 AM
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Uuuuuuh??? never mind???
Perhaps a Freudian slip?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 17, 2006 at 6:46 AM
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Corbin
I said Bubbler.....not blubber!
Blubbering is what I have been doing the past few days......are you trying to tell me something?
posted by
BlondeAmbition007
on August 17, 2006 at 6:11 AM
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"bubbler"
An extreme emotional, crying state?
v 1: cry or whine with snuffling; "Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!" [syn: snivel, sniffle, blub, snuffle] 2: utter while crying [syn: blubber out]
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 17, 2006 at 6:05 AM
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here's a couple more to your list from the Uk
Flabbergasted = mainly now is gob-smacked
Most common for here is Please & Thank U = Nothing or just a grunt if ur lucky
instead of family also there used to b *Bun in Oven = Now Expectin a sprog
Used to be doin my head in = Now doin my swede in i have no idea why a swede
Fiend = Now this used to be 2 describe as u know a really bad person but my g/ma said this recently because she wldnt have used a common M****** F****** C*****
if we think of anymore we'll pop by n let ya know xxxx
posted by
M.C.BREEZE
on August 17, 2006 at 1:57 AM
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Corbin
I heard the term "bubbler" a few years ago.....I was like "what is that suppose to mean" and the guy said it means, water fountain. That was a weird term for me.
Yes, I grew up in the Supper days. Now it is Dinner.
posted by
BlondeAmbition007
on August 17, 2006 at 1:45 AM
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wow, interesting...I've heard of a high boy, and a commode..LOL
posted by
shelly_b
on August 16, 2006 at 6:41 PM
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Furniture names evolve......
Ever here a couch called a divan?
Chests also came in many varieties.......Originally a piece of squared furniture with drawers, it became known as a commode to the French. .A variation used a desk, featuring a fall-front, a cylinder front or a tambour (roll-top) was called a bureau. A low English chest of drawers on long legs was known as a lowboy and later as a dressing table. By mounting a chest of drawers on top of it, it became a highboy, from the French haut bois which means "high wood." ........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 16, 2006 at 6:30 PM
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Corbin, wow, really?? Then why did my grandmother refer to the sofa
when she said Davenport?
posted by
shelly_b
on August 16, 2006 at 6:26 PM
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Shelly......
The original Davenport was a slant top writing desk........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 16, 2006 at 6:24 PM
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Corbin, oh, it's okay, I understand....it's just when I say that word
people look at me like I'm crazy?? LOL
posted by
shelly_b
on August 16, 2006 at 6:22 PM
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Shelly......
understand ........I'm getting all of this from "history" sites and lots of books....not from personal experience
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 16, 2006 at 6:20 PM
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Justi.....
chifferobes is the correct spelling....but people in the country called em "shiftarobe".....
When you bought a room of furniture..... a suite was a new living room "suit" instead of the pronunciation "sweet"
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 16, 2006 at 6:18 PM
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Corbin, my grandma always called them davenports..LOL
posted by
shelly_b
on August 16, 2006 at 6:18 PM
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Corbin I could not figure out how to spell Shifrtobes!!! But you know what
I meant.
posted by
Justi
on August 16, 2006 at 6:12 PM
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Corbin
Good post. Ready made. All the Chifferobes have been turned into entertainment centers. Cedar Chest, Hall Tree, Hat box, Filling Station wow I miss getting my gas pumped and a nice young service person would ask, "Want ya oil checked, Ma'am?"
posted by
Justi
on August 16, 2006 at 6:11 PM
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You mean one of these?
How about a shiftarobe???
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on August 16, 2006 at 6:01 PM
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How about "davenport" I think I spelled it right..
posted by
shelly_b
on August 16, 2006 at 5:53 PM
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