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The Velveteen Ocelot

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16. They're all over the place - just about any house built in the '80s has them.

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #9)

Thu Jun 16, 2016, 12:24 AM

Jun 2016

I'm in MN, and popcorn ceilings are common here in houses of that vintage. The other things that were trends in interior decorating during that rather heinous decade were "gold" (brass) faucets in the bathroom and vast, voluminous draperies.

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Name traditions or styles which have drastically changed over time. [View all] Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 OP

yikes those colors Florencenj2point0 Jun 2016 #1

Ummm, don't you mean consummate? oregonjen Jun 2016 #2

It's the lounge. We're allowed poetic license. Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 #4

Consommé is a type of clear soup. I see no connection to wedding night sex. Kaleva Jun 2016 #3

Sheeshus. What happened to everybody's funny bone? Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 #5

I'm on Lounge duty patrol tonight. I take my job seriously!! Kaleva Jun 2016 #6

That's another thing that has gone out of style....Humor. nt clarice Jun 2016 #8

Well...if the groom can't perform...he might be in hot water.nt clarice Jun 2016 #7

Oh broth-er Orrex Jun 2016 #13

Maybe it's wedding soup? Orrex Jun 2016 #14

Naah jmowreader Jun 2016 #15

I think that's a stock photo. Orrex Jun 2016 #22

It is, but it's not consommé jmowreader Jun 2016 #23

You're way off base Orrex Jun 2016 #27

Just hang on there one menudo. Don't be a chowderhead. pinboy3niner Jun 2016 #34

Popcorn celings were never in north of the Mason-Dixon line. KamaAina Jun 2016 #9

No I'm up here in Iowa and we have it here in my house. 47of74 Jun 2016 #11

They're all over the place - just about any house built in the '80s has them. The Velveteen Ocelot Jun 2016 #16

And I wonder how many couples actually consumate their marriages anymore on the wedding night. 47of74 Jun 2016 #10

Bristol Palin just got married Kaleva Jun 2016 #18

How many is this for her now? 47of74 Jun 2016 #19

Believe it or not, it's her first jmowreader Jun 2016 #24

Pantyhose lunatica Jun 2016 #12

My advertising director wears them jmowreader Jun 2016 #25

she must be a Boomer lunatica Jun 2016 #30

She's 37. Not a boomer. jmowreader Jun 2016 #31

How strange. lunatica Jun 2016 #32

I wear them when I'm robbing convenience stores that aren't on the way home. Orrex Jun 2016 #28

but how do you decide which leg to use? lunatica Jun 2016 #29

Outhouses with 2 or more seats Kaleva Jun 2016 #17

Parents house originally had no indoor plumbing. 47of74 Jun 2016 #20

Saturday morning cartoons 47of74 Jun 2016 #21

So long, childhood nt MrScorpio Jun 2016 #26

Women wearing pants Freddie Jun 2016 #33

Wedding announcements in the newspaper used to always contain a photo of the bride only Midwestern Democrat Jun 2016 #35