Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 16, 2019

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And several even older. Aim high on the demographics for that captive audience.

True story. I was talking about movies with some 20-somethings and I used the phrase ‘cat burglar.’ “Is that someone who steals cats?” How does a phrase like that become obscure.

True, but them thar zombie movies give us a bad rap.

I knew newspapers had morgues but I didn’t think their customers resided there. :-}

As in “brain dead”???

Language and expressions (as well as grammar) evolves——otherwise we’d all be speaking Shakespearean English. However I must admit that I told a 20 some year old that a town was a “bedrooom community” for a larger city, and he thought that was something racy and sexy.

Several years ago my father told me about an amusing incident he had: He went to the supermarket wearing his old, well-worn denim jacket. A couple of young people saw him and commented on what a neat jacket it was — like the expensive stone-washed jeans that were (and still are) so popular. They asked him where he got it. He replied “Oh, I bought up north a few years ago.” They complimented him again and went on their way. He chuckled to himself because he bought it for his first job out of high school “a few years ago” in 1927! (It is still in style and still wearable)