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Here's a Pathé dealer's ad from the Oswego Daily Palladium, Nov 30 1923. They included the telegraph codes used for ordering from the distributor or factory, to (I assume) unintended effect. Imagine describing a record as "Garbage" or "Failing", or using a modern-day non-PC term .... !

Of course, at that time, that "non-PC term" was slang for a cigarette, and I think is still used that way in the UK and many Commonwealth countries.

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile...

52089 wrote:Of course, at that time, that "non-PC term" was slang for a cigarette, and I think is still used that way in the UK and many Commonwealth countries.

Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile...

It was also a term for "fatigue"...

Bill

You try working one of those telephone switchboards back in the day, son ! Then come back and tell me about it.