The same language with different words / those shirts / euthanasia

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36269>:

<< I was about seven or eight and encountered the word "bureau" in a
novel I was reading, so I asked my mother what "burroo" meant. >>

Not ignoring your funny anecdote, but reminded that when I was about
that age, my mother told me of a story resembling 'Pigs is Pigs' but
much less famous, about a man who ordered a burro shipped by train.
When he went to pick it up, the train agent apologized for having lost
his furniture and couldn't understand why this jackass wasn't on the
manifest.

<< arcadia doors >>

??????????

Geoff wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36271>:

<< <exits stage left muttering lift/elevator, bonnet/hood,
sweater/jumper, dustbin/trash can trainers/sneakers until voice fades
in the distance> >>

Which lanes on a road are the 'inside' lanes?

Geoff wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36307>:

<< Sometimes also called a singlet if it's the sleeveless type such as
runners wear. >>

Singlet! That's the word Carol is looking for! It is an uncommon word
in USA and always strikes me as a quaint Britishism, and as crying out
for some kind of pun with 'doublet'.

Geoff wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36311>:

<< Although they're not really part of the scene nowadays they did
come back into fashion for a while some years ago for a while and were
referred to as... tank tops. >>

I seem to recall we had this thread a few years ago when Percy was
stated to be wearing a woolen tank top. I think that must have been
GoF, as after that, Percy was off-stage until the just before the end.

Kemper wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36323>:

<< (The bagginess was a style that, I think, was originally a look
that came from hand-me-down pants from big brothers to little
brothers.) >>

Too-big jeans with no belt was a style that originally came from
uniforms issued to inmates at California Youth Authority prisons.
Belts are not allowed because they can be used as weapons. But long,
long ago I read an opinion piece by a fashion historian (no idea if
she was any good at it) making a comparison to zoot suits and saying
that clothing styles that consume lots of fabric are a sign of
individual optimism in an economically prosperous time...

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36363>:

<< I'd never heard the term "A-shirt" till we started this discussion.
At least, unlike "wifebeater," it's in the dictionary! >>

I'd never heard the term "A-shirt" before either. The only on-line
dictionary that <http://www.onelook.com/> found for it was Wikipedia,
which did not give an etymology. T-shirts are named from their shape,
but A-shirts don't strike me as looking like the letter A.

Alex wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPFGU-OTChatter/message/36393>:

<< "Put to sleep" is a ridiculous term meant to make it "OK" to kill
animals. They just go to sleep. Yeah, right. They are killed. Rather
nastily. Go to your local pound if you do not know what goes on there. >>

Talking about the vet's office, not the pound. Obi, Sasha, Nan, and
Pixy were euthanized. Fancy and Cinnamon died at home. I was with each
of them when they died.