[Ads-l] people who shower after work

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

This 1986 article highlights the distinction between showering before
and after work (which Ben mentioned).

Date: March 1, 1986
Newspaper: The Orlando Sentinel
Newspaper Location: Orlando, Florida
Article: BIG JOB COUNTDOWN NOT LIKELY TO RETURN
Author:  Charlie Jean (The Sentinel Staff)
Quote Page A6
Database: NewsBank Access World News

[Begin excerpt - double-check for errors]
Employment at Kennedy Space Center has stayed steady in recent years,
but layoffs were a way of life in earlier times.

Despite the layoffs announced Friday and any future cutbacks, it's not
considered likely that there will be a repeat of the wrenching early
1970s, when jobs were lopped off by the thousands and Brevard County's
economy plunged into chaos.
. . .

''The nadir was 1974, 9,300,'' said NASA spokesman Dick Young.

Those were brutal years, when trained engineers found themselves
selling used cars, mowing lawns, whatever they could find to do.
Housewives who hadn't worked for years turned first to the
classifieds.

''I learned to take my shower after work, not before,'' one engineer
said at the time.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 3:27 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Here is an instance in a Kansas paper in 1980 of people "who shower
> after work" that seems to refer to "good old boys (and girls)". The
> passage references the bucking machine in the 1980 film "Urban Cowboy"
> starring John Travolta.
>
> Date: September 18, 1980
> Newspaper: Kansas City Star
> Newspaper Location:
> Article: Partners bullish on their bucking machine
> Author: Denise Stafford (Star business & financial writer)
> Quote Page 9C, Column 3
> Database: NewsBank Access World News
>
> [Begin excerpt - double-check for errors]
> The deal is simple: A buck for a buck. And there are a lot of
> takers—the good old boys (and girls), as well as the not so old, who
> shower after work, put on a pair of jeans, boots and a hat and head
> down to the local entertainment spot where they try to out-Travolta
> John Travolta.
>
> There, in parking lots, smokey barrooms and amusement parks, these
> rodeo dreamers risk sore muscles and bruises to prove to their
> generally beer-sogged companions that they can ride the bucking
> machine.
> [End excerpt]
>
> Garson
>
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 2:52 PM Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In last night's debate, Tim Ryan lauded "the people that take a shower
> > after work," i.e., working-class voters. I wrote up a history of this
> > demographic descriptor for the Atlantic:
> >
> > https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/07/cnn-presidential-debate-after-work-showers/595177/
> >
> > I give examples of the "people who shower before/after work" distinction
> > going back to 1988, but I wouldn't be surprised if an ADS-Ler can beat that.
> >
> > --bgz
> >
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