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1970s CB lingo/terms and its meanings

  1. “Pregnant roller skate” - term for a VW bug
  2. “Seatcovers” - passengers
  3. Smokey Bear - state trooper
  4. Twenty - location
  5. Jimmy - GMC truck
  6. Puttin’ the hammer down - pressing the accelerator
  7. Big Charlie - the FCC
  8. Slaughterhouse - Channel 11
  9. Cornfield Cadillac - John Deere tractor.
8423

1970s CB lingo/terms and its meanings

  1. “Pregnant roller skate” - term for a VW bug
  2. “Seatcovers” - passengers
  3. Smokey Bear - state trooper
  4. Twenty - location
  5. Jimmy - GMC truck
  6. Puttin’ the hammer down - pressing the accelerator
  7. Big Charlie - the FCC
  8. Slaughterhouse - Channel 11
  9. Cornfield Cadillac - John Deere tractor.
  10. Gator/Alligator - a large piece of a truck tire’s tread in the roadway

My husband is an 18-wheeler trucker. :slight_smile:

8424

:smack: My work truck is a 2004 GMC Jimmy and I never made this association!

1970s CB lingo/terms and its meanings

  1. “Pregnant roller skate” - term for a VW bug
  2. “Seatcovers” - passengers
  3. Smokey Bear - state trooper
  4. Twenty - location
  5. Jimmy - GMC truck
  6. Puttin’ the hammer down - pressing the accelerator
  7. Big Charlie - the FCC
  8. Slaughterhouse - Channel 11
  9. Cornfield Cadillac - John Deere tractor.
  10. Gator/Alligator - a large piece of a truck tire’s tread in the roadway
  11. Professional Beaver - Prostitute
8425

1970s CB lingo/terms and its meanings

  1. “Pregnant roller skate” - term for a VW bug
  2. “Seatcovers” - passengers
  3. Smokey Bear - state trooper
  4. Twenty - location
  5. Jimmy - GMC truck
  6. Puttin’ the hammer down - pressing the accelerator
  7. Big Charlie - the FCC
  8. Slaughterhouse - Channel 11
  9. Cornfield Cadillac - John Deere tractor.
  10. Gator/Alligator - a large piece of a truck tire’s tread in the roadway
  11. Professional Beaver - Prostitute
  12. Ratchet Jaw - somebody (usually a non trucker) who won’t shut up on the CB channel

(“Professional Beaver” amuses me, because women in general were “Beavers.”)

8426

1970s CB lingo/terms and its meanings

  1. “Pregnant roller skate” - term for a VW bug
  2. “Seatcovers” - passengers
  3. Smokey Bear - state trooper
  4. Twenty - location
  5. Jimmy - GMC truck
  6. Puttin’ the hammer down - pressing the accelerator
  7. Big Charlie - the FCC
  8. Slaughterhouse - Channel 11
  9. Cornfield Cadillac - John Deere tractor.
  10. Gator/Alligator - a large piece of a truck tire’s tread in the roadway
  11. Professional Beaver - Prostitute
  12. Ratchet Jaw - somebody (usually a non trucker) who won’t shut up on the CB channel
  13. Kojak with a Kodak - police car with radar

(There are probably younger posters who don’t know what a Kojak or a Kodak are)

I just did one so I’ll pass

8427

OK, then. New category:

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
8428

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
8429

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
8430

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
8431

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
8432

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
8433

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
8434

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits

open to multiple interpretations.

8435

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits
  9. a flag

Gold trim optional.

8436

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits
  9. a flag
  10. the accused
8437

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits
  9. a flag
  10. the accused
  11. Sketch artist (still used in some courts today)
8438

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits
  9. a flag
  10. the accused
  11. A bible
8439

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits
  9. a flag
  10. the accused
  11. A bible
  12. A bloody knife in a plastic bag
8440

Things you’d find in a courtroom

  1. Magistrate
  2. Stenographer
  3. chairs
  4. gavel
  5. Jury box
  6. Bailiff
  7. lawyers
  8. suits
  9. a flag
  10. the accused
  11. A bible
  12. A bloody knife in a plastic bag
  13. Photographs with circles and arrows on each one

Alton Brown’s Good Eats Episodes:

  1. Major Pepper
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Alton Brown’s “Good Eats” episodes

  1. Major Pepper
  2. The Big Chili