The story goes that hemlines rise and fall with the stock market. If that’s the case, then we hope it’s not long before we’re all hearing people exclaim, “Why, that skirt is almost up to possible!” An Iowa listener recalls that when she was a teen, her granny used that phrase when tsk-tsking about the length of her granddaughter’s miniskirt. This is part of a complete episode.
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