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In reply to the discussion: Phrases you don't hear anymore: [View all]ProfessorGAC
(73,816 posts)94. Family Friends Had One
Console organ. A million buttons and switches plus a rhythm box. But, I sounded weak compared to my dad's Hammond.
One of the schools where I sub has a Wurlizter piano. Not in very good shape, but the guy they bring in can still tune it. Wurlitzer never had good action, but their spinets were very affordable so lots of people had them. Like my aunt & uncle.
There was a store in the town where I grew up that was all Wurlitzer & Fender.
After Gibson bought Baldwin, who bought Wurlitzer, they quit making instruments with that name on them.
Their only products appear to be jukeboxes.
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Holy cow. Never understood it but but always thought cows somehow deserved a phrase like that.
dgauss
Dec 2024
#8
I sold my Grand Baroque patterned sterling silver set I inherited from my mother. Nodody polishes silver any more.
CTyankee
Dec 2024
#81
I say Bull in a china shop quite often and yes I have not one but two sets of fine china
yellowdogintexas
Dec 2024
#177
my mom had some weird sayings. Can't remember all them, but pants were britches.
LeftInTX
Dec 2024
#186
Tons of ranching and agriculture in CA, so it would make sense they'd use it too,
lark
Dec 2024
#140
Land o' Goshen! ... and "Republicans are the party of fiscal reasonability"
JohnnyRingo
Dec 2024
#36
In college in the late sixties we actually made fun of ourselves by saying "farm out" and "out of state".....
EarnestPutz
Dec 2024
#122
There's one I wish would go away, well a few, but " threw up in my mouth a little" takes the cake, so to speak.
yorkster
Dec 2024
#63
"Bless Your Heart will never go away as long as there are still Southern grand mothers. !!! nt
yellowdogintexas
Dec 2024
#182
I have a neighbor that had a previous dog before it succumbed to an age related illness
Niagara
Dec 2024
#146
still say copacetic from time to time. It was a favorite of my grandfather! nt
yellowdogintexas
Dec 2024
#181