Tenny runners...

[Wilson Gray]

As usual, Charlie, you've resurrected for me a bit of lexicon that I'd
lost. Overshoes! Whoa, does that bring back memories! BTW, my
grandparents referred to rubber bands as "elastics." Does that ring a
bell with you?

-Wilson

On 9/22/06, Charles Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
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> When I was in (about) the fifth grade, the spelling textbook gave the word "rubbers," with the illustrative sentence (something like) "John lent Bill his rubbers."  Many yucks from the pubescent philologues--though we did divine that the reference was to what are properly (in East Texas) called "overshoes."
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> >Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:35:49 -0700
> >From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
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> >  BTW, the "rubber sole" superstition also applied to wearing rubbers all day, as some kids like me tried to do in class on rainy days
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> >  Still Freudian. "Rubbers." Get it ? Get it ?  Feet, genitalia, too primitive !
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> >  JL
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