"icebox"

[Eric Nielsen]

Reminds of the song, "I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town",

*"...Let me tell you honey, we gonna move away from here
I don't need no iceman, I'm gonna, get you a Frigidaire..."*

writers: WELDON, WILLIAM WESTLEY / JORDAN, ROY

Performed by Josh White, BB King, Ray Charles, Alman Brothers, et al.

Eric



On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 10:46 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm 71, and I grew up in rural lower Michigan saying "icebox" because we
> had one till I was about 10.  When we got a fridge, icebox and fridge were
> interchangeable.
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> Herb
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> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:
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> > I used to say "icebox" for refrigerator.  Have stopped because people
> > were looking at me funny.
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> > Is this a generational change?  (I'm 70.)  Or a difference between
> > Hudson Valley and Twin Cities speech?
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> > Or possibly both, or some alternative which didn't occur to me.
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> > Dan Goodman
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