Name: Donatella Looking for: Physical affection Interested in: A real man How you doin? She has a thick southern accent that stretches out every syllable, eating up almost the entire first allotted minute of conversation with her greeting and a stare that propels my blood south
However even if you're not in the general public speaking or show business, having a much deeper voice can communicate authority, self-confidence, as well as charisma
Then again, the 60s were all about finding ways to rebel against the man, which explains some of the following nifty lingo: Bench racing - Talking about the speed of different cars while sitting around Birth control seats - Bucket seats in a car Bone yard - A junkyard or auto wrecking yard Bookin - Going fast (typically in a car) Brody - To skid half a circle in a car with the brakes locked Burn rubber - To accelerate rapidly, leaving rubber and marks on the road Chicken - A dangerous game in which two cars drive toward each other, with the first to swerve being chicken Chinese fire drill - A game where four people get out of the car at a red light and change places with each other Circus wagon - A car with a bad paint job, usually in bad shape Cool pipes - A mellow-sounding exhaust system in a car Crop duster - A car that burnt oil (leaving clouds of smoke) Cruising - Driving up and down a street (looking for girls, guys, a race, or something else) Drag - A short-distance car race that began when the stoplight turned green Grease slapper - An oil-burning car or truck Hopped up - A car with modifications or enhancements (like Souped up) Lay rubber - To stop so fast you make wheel marks on the road Midnight auto supply - A slang term for stolen car parts Passion pit - The drive-in movies (since couples would often have romantic encounters during the film) Peel out - To accelerate fast Rack for pinks - A race in which the winner keeps the losers car, with pinks referring to the vehicle title (a pink slip) Shotgun - The passenger seat of the car
That said, some will require more work than others
The very idea boggles my mind, but it also makes me want to start looking a lot closer at those used-boat ads because, and this is my prediction, The Cigarette is just the tip of a new collector craze in historic boats
