The in-laws and, sadly, Gary, have their own dialect. I don’t mean just calling soda “pop.” They have at least three terms exclusive to the tiny little region of Saint Louis called Gary’s Childhood Home:
a. Noseblower. As in, “a gentlemen always carries a noseblower to offer a lady in tears” or “She dropped her noseblower to attract the gentleman’s attention.”
b. B. O. Medicine. I hate this one. I can’t break Gary of this. And on top of that, we had quite the disagreement on whether antiperspirant and antiperspirant/deodorant were the same. I can’t discuss this any more.
…and almost c. Towelcoat. I almost convinced Gary on the cruise (number of posts not mentioning the cruise: #1) that no one knew what he meant by “dropping our ‘towel coats’ for the naked photo.” I kept trying to explain that no one else on the face of God’s earth uses the term “towel coat.” And now? Cary Grant just told Doris Day in That Touch of Mink that there was a “towel coat hanging in the closet.”
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A towelcoat? I’ve never heard that one and I guess I missed the reference to it in the Doris Day movie. I’m guessing he means a robe?
Antiperspirant keeps you from sweating. Deodorant keeps you from smelling. But really, don’t you want both? I’ll have to check out my under arm product of choice tonight to see what claim it makes.
Yup, towelcoat = terry cloth bath robe. Until I set him straight this past fall, he believed that B. O. Medicine = antiperspirant = deodorant. Truly, he felt they were the same. Or perhaps he was playing dumb so I wouldn’t send him to the store for any of it.
I LOVE THAT MOVIE. I have never paid attention to the towel coat reference. I will hear it from now until forever each time I watch that movie though.I know in Desk Set, Katherine offers Spencer a robe, that she had embroidered the initials on herself.dang, ain’t the classics great. 😉