Re: RE: IML: remember when...

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TO ALL IMPERIAL NUTS,
DESPITE THE FACT THAT THIS POSTING IS NOT DIRECTLY CONCERNING IMPS, BE SURE TO FOLLOW THE LINK TO THE "OLDIES" TRIBUTE AND YOU WILL GET TEARS IN YOUR EYES---I DID!
MY '81 FS WILL NEVER HAVE FENDER SKIRTS, CURB FEELERS, A STEERING KNOB, A CONTINENTAL KIT, ETC. , BUT I REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS, AND REMEMBER, AGAIN, THAT "TIME DOESN'T SHOUT, IT JUST RUNS OUT".
JERRY
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> From: "Ken Lang" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 2006/05/10 Wed AM 10:44:20 EDT
> To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE: IML: remember when...
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> I know my '67 has fender-skirts and thought most Imperials did.  (I now know
> a couple of years did not)
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> An interesting web site for those who are old enough and want to take a trip
> down memory lane is: http://www.thestatenislandboys.com/U_thrill_me/
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> I also went to www.dictionary.com <http://www.dictionary.com/>  and looked
> up the words 'dinner' and 'supper', interesting.
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> Ken
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> '67 Crown 4 Dr Ht
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> From: mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:mailing-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of L. Hodgson
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:34 AM
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> Subject: IML: remember when...
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> Fun reading for us older folks...
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> Someone forwarded this to me. I thought some of us of a "certain age" would
> remember most of these. OH!!!!!!those were the days!!!! This is the
> shortened version.
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> What the heck is a fender skirt?
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> I came across this phrase in a book yesterday "FENDER SKIRTS". A term I
> haven't heard in a long time and thinking about "fen der skirts" started me
> thinking about other words that quietly disappear from our language with
> hardly a notice. 
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> Like "curb feelers" and "steering 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 50 to explain some of these terms to you.  
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> 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. 
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> 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." 
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> I'm sad, too, that almost all the old folks are gone who would call the
> accelerator the "foot feed." 
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> Didn't you ever wait at the street for your daddy to come home, so you could
> ride the "running board" up to the house?
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> 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. 
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> Lyall
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> 81 Imperial
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