Sitcom History
1960's Lingo
1940's Lingo
Halloween
Snow birds
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This ground breaking dramedy ran from 1972 to 1983 and was set during the Korean War. 

M.A.S.H.   It's series finale in 1983 became one of the most watched broadcasts in U.S. Television History.  105 Million Viewers.

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For approval and coolness it means awesome, cool or wonderful...

Groovy

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Cooking with this meant you were making great progress or doing something the right way.

Cooking with Gas

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This was the first Halloween themed song to reach #1 on the billboard charts in 1962. 

The Monster Mash

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These two states dominate the most populr snowbird destinations - Claiming 88 of the top 100 spots nation wide. 

Texas and Florida

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Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name was opening to this sitcom set in a Boston Bar. 

Cheers

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This meant great, cool or fantastic!  It also could mean the person above you at work.

BOSS

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Chrome Dome

Bald 

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This word was derived from old English "Wicce" which meant wise woman.  This would have been useful in salem.

Witch

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This state is labeled as the northern most state for snow birders to go.  Cheep rates, milder winter days but you still need a heavy coat in January and February.

North Carolina

300

This sitcom saw the most character spin-offs in television History! 

All in the Family.  (Maude, The Jeffersons, Archie Bunkers Place,  Gloria and 704 Hauser)

300

An old fashioned, conventional person who is not cool may take on this shape... 

Square

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This is what it meant to be a Killer Diller.

High Quality or absolutely awesome.

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This famine specific to Scotland and Ireland became the catalyst for the US being introduced to Halloween in the 1840's. 

The Potato Famine -  Influx of Irish and Scottish came to American and they brought Halloween with them! 

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Its said this species of bird returns to the exact same nesting grounds, territories and back yard feeders year after year.  Often arriving at the same time as well! 

Humming Birds

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This is the longest running American sitcom and is an animated cultural cornerstone.  You may have heard your kids or grandkids use lines like "Don't have a cow man". 

The Simpsons

400

The Fuzz meant this back in the 1960's...

Police

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Khaki-Wacky 

Women who were overly obsessed with men in military uniforms.

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Greek farmers were the first to create these human like bodies to protect their crops 

Scarecrows

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The brown variety of this bird suffered from sub freezing conditions that hit the Carolinas in 2025.  

Brown Pelican -  many do not migrate south.  Those that didn't were seen with frostbite and emaciated. 

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This was the very first television sitcom in the US. It premiered on the DuMont Television Network on November 18th 1947. 

Mary Kay and Johnny

500

Crash could mean an accident or this biological function.

Sleep 

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Those born between 1997 and 2012 are bringing back 1940's lingo to describe people.  One such word is "Drip" which means this....

A boring or uncool person.

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Its tradition in Germany to hid these on Halloween night.  They did not want returning spirits to get injured.

Knives

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This is the heaviest native waterfowl and flying bird in North America to migrate south for the winter.  5 ft long, 30lbs and a wingspan of about 7 to 8 ft.  

The Trumpeter Swan

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