# Old-fashioned things you'd like to see revived
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 13, 2023, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167 "2023-01-13T14:14:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 7
### Author:  [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/121 "2023-01-16T16:05:07Z")
Except that Connie Mack was intimately involved in directing players on the field, for instance motioning to outfielders etc. to station them for defense in particular situations.
It just seems silly to have someone like Tony LaRussa or another elder statesman parading around in a team uniform.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/122 "2023-01-16T16:09:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> In fact, she said that she heard of a movie that was being made about the Sexy 70s (the decade, not the age group – **that’s** another thread) and they couldn’t find any young actresses who had 1970s-style pubic hair, so the girls had to wear genital toupees.
My genital toupee is styled in a fashionable mullet.
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### Author:  [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/123 "2023-01-16T16:14:47Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#):
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> Because I have no interest in leaving a machine uselessly burning fossil fuel in my house.
For myself it’s because I don’t trust 'em. Washer dryer dishwasher must be off if I’m going to leave over night. And then I turn off the water to the house. Luckily, that’s very easy to do.
Once bitten, twice shy.
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### Author:  [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/124 "2023-01-16T16:16:31Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#):
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> This current dryer also has a feature which cannot be disabled, in which after it’s done, it cycles for about 30 seconds every ten minutes or so, indefinitely, I suppose to keep clothes from wrinkling.
Does it turn on the heat, or just tumble? If the latter, I doubt it’s actually using very much power. I don’t like weird options that you can’t turn off, but if my drier had that as an option, I suspect I would use it somewhat frequently.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/125 "2023-01-16T16:17:05Z")
> [@Tibby](#):
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> My genital toupee is styled in a fashionable mullet.
Ah… business in the front and party… um, well, you know…
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/126 "2023-01-16T16:19:24Z")
> [@Monty](#):
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> I miss sliderules. They’re a great tool and not difficult at all to use. Some of my students were quite impressed when I showed them last year how to use one. They could not wrap their head around the idea that one does not need an electronic device to do everything.
I don’t miss them as tools, per se, since objectively, a digital calculator can do the same job more easily and more effectively. But they’re a great pedagogical tool, and my students have all enjoyed the lesson I gave them.
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### Author:  [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/127 "2023-01-16T16:22:03Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#):
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> Ah… business in the front and party… um, well, you know…
Or, liquor in the front; poker in the rear.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/128 "2023-01-16T16:29:28Z")
Spinner racks of comics in every drugstore, 7-Eleven, and gas station.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/129 "2023-01-16T18:44:47Z")
I know… I was saying that once the position evolved into being what would be called the coach in other sports (save soccer), the managers have had a choice of which direction they’d take their outfits.
I mean, there’s nothing stopping say… Dusty Baker from dressing up in a suit except for tradition. Connie Mack clearly took the suit option, but nearly all the rest of the managers chose the uniforms.
If I had to guess, it’s because baseball is a summer sport, and nobody wants to be wearing a suit at 4 o’clock in the afternoon during the summer in a large part of the country.
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### Author:  [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/130 "2023-01-16T18:46:31Z")
I don’t even like appliances running overnight.
Once, either my ex left the washer run when he was out, or it just decided to go kerflooey, and it flooded the kitchen
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/131 "2023-01-16T18:49:52Z")
> [@bump](#):
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> I mean, there’s nothing stopping say… Dusty Baker from dressing up in a suit except for tradition. Connie Mack clearly took the suit option, but nearly all the rest of the managers chose the uniforms.
I was surprised to learn that, in fact, a manager could still wear a suit. Coaches have to be in a uniform, in order to go onto the field during a game, but not managers. According to this article:
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> And [MLB’s rulebook](https://content.mlb.com/documents/2/2/4/305750224/2019_Official_Baseball_Rules_FINAL_.pdf) has never officially mandated a certain managerial dress code. The closest it comes to weighing in on the subject is in its Definition of Terms, in which a coach is defined as any “team member in uniform appointed by the manager to perform such duties as the manager may designate, such as but not limited to acting as base coach.”
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> Even Rule 4.07, which deals with on-field security, stipulates that “no person shall be allowed on the playing field during a game except players and coaches in uniform, managers, news photographers authorized by the home team, umpires, officers of the law in uniform and watchmen or other employees of the home Club” – which seems to imply that, while coaches need to be in uniform, managers themselves can dress as they see fit.
Terry Francona, who has managed the Phillies, Red Sox and Indians/Guardians, has opted to not wear a uniform top, instead opting for a pullover with the team logo on it (he cites health issues for this choice), but he’s [still gotten pressure from MLB](https://www.boston.com/sports/extra-bases/2007/08/30/uniformgate/) to conform and wear a uniform top.
> **[Why exactly do managers wear uniforms in the dugout?](https://www.mlb.com/news/why-do-mlb-managers-wear-uniforms)**
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> Baseball is chock full of odd habits and conventions that, through decades and decades of use, we've all normalized as "tradition" -- not to be trifled with, or touched, or thought about for too long. Why is the foul pole in fair territory? Why is it...
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### Author:  [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/132 "2023-01-16T19:47:57Z")
The mind lightly boggles that a merkin is even available in mullet style.
Kudos to you for finding one.
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### Author:  [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/133 "2023-01-16T19:51:23Z")
It was probably bespoke\* – created by a blind wigmaker. Or one who wished he was blind.
\*One of my favorite words! So hard to work it into the average conversation.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/134 "2023-01-16T20:06:37Z")
That would be nice, but parents have become hyper-sensitized to the notion that everyone is out to steal their children. My son’s wife was the ultimate helicopter parent. Their kids weren’t allowed outside at all unless supervised. Now she can’t understand why their teen-aged daughter never goes out.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/135 "2023-01-16T20:26:46Z")
Business in the front, party in the back? 🤨
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/136 "2023-01-16T20:38:21Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#):
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> Instead of the silly practice of dressing major league baseball managers in team uniforms, I’d like to see them in old-time formal wear, like Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics.
Note that Connie Mack was not allowed to leave the dugout and go onto the field without a uniform. Only medical personnel are permitted on the field without a uniform. This was the rule in the 1940s when I first got interested in baseball.
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/137 "2023-01-16T21:43:50Z")
FWIW, Steven Pinker gives a similar explanation for MLB manager uniforms in _Words and Rules_:
> Baseball managers, unlike the coaches in other sports, sometimes have to run onto the playing surface, to confer with the pitcher or kick dirt on the umpire’s shoes.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/138 "2023-01-16T21:46:52Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#):
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> Note that Connie Mack was not allowed to leave the dugout and go onto the field without a uniform. Only medical personnel are permitted on the field without a uniform. This was the rule in the 1940s when I first got interested in baseball.
The link I posted a few posts back, from the MLB website, strongly suggests that managers, specifically, aren’t bound by that rule.
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### Author:  [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/139 "2023-01-16T21:49:27Z")
Like so? [Red Green 1956 Tonka Toys Dump Truck: Original (unrestored, un-touched - literally - sat in storage/closet for over over 50 years...didn’t even wipe/dust it off prior to photos). - Album on Imgur](https://imgur.com/gallery/izKHhP2)
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### Author:  [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-fashioned-things-youd-like-to-see-revived/978167/140 "2023-01-16T21:53:31Z")
In fact, I can attest he did not leave the dugout and that was the explanation given. The pose of him holding a scorecard and one foot on the top step of the dugout was so characteristic that after he died there was a statue of him in that pose erected outside the ball park. Even after the field was taken down, I believe that statue is still there at 21st and Lehigh.
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