BS: People wearing Galoshes

Subject: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 06:14 PM

Have you noticed how many people are wearing galoshes these days? Not in Oz, mind you. Theirs are tucked away for the Winter. And, whatever happened to the galoshes with those metal clips? I think they went the way of high-tops with a pocket on the side for a jacknife. Now they're all with fancy schmancy zippers on the side.

La De Dah. Get some manure stuck in them zippers when you're feeding the pigs, and see how well they work.

What is the world coming to?

Farmer Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Teresa
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 08:18 PM

I use them in the big city, because I use a white cane and don't want to get soaking wet when I swim through puddles. Fortunately, it doesn't rain much in las vegas. Unfortunately, when it does, the streets turn into rivers, and the low spots in the sidewalks turn into lakes.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 08:21 PM

You want some five-buckle boots, Jerry? What size and how many pair? They're standard wear out here.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Peace
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 08:23 PM

I put them on when I respond to the firehall for a call. They are fast to slip into at home and easy to take off at the hall. They are good in all weather for the few minutes I need them and it likely saves me ten seconds. I bought the ones I have about nine or ten years ago in the NWT. Brought 'em with me on the way south.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: frogprince
Date: 28 Jan 05 - 09:49 PM

Haven't had a new pair of "5 buckles" since I left the home farm. We got years of wear out of them, usually with some inner tube patches, if we didn't happen to rip one beyond all repair. Have very literally been in deep s**t with those things many a time.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 05:13 PM

We call them Wellingtons in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 06:25 PM

Ah, brings back memories of my happy childhood in Wisconsin. It was only the real dorks that buckled the buckles on those boots - it was cool to make the sound of the buckles brushing together.
We called them "boots." Only old people called them galoshes. Are you old, Jerry? ;-)
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 08:17 PM

Ancient.

But, I called them boots, too..

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Teresa
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 08:23 PM

I don't know which ones are considered "galoshes". I now have "rain boots", which I got in Oregon ... they're lined with felt and have laces. I used to have an entirely rubber pair that slipped on. both went over socks; not over shoes.

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 08:30 PM

During heavy rain and during our rainy season it is quite normal to see smartly dressed Chinese people wearing wellies with their business suits. These are nice chunky black wellies. You can also get overshoes too.

In winter people are out buying ear muffs. The older men seem to favour black ones that make them look like pensionable age Micky Mouse's.

Anyone wear ear muffs?

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: hilda fish
Date: 29 Jan 05 - 11:21 PM

Wellingtons? What are they? Do you mean gummies?

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Joe Offer
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 12:20 AM

I don't think that galoshes are known outside the Midwestern U.S. and maybe Pennsylvania, which might as well be Midwest. Girls don't wear them, except for maybe the girls who wear babushkas.
Well, my wife says she used to wear her brother's galoshes once in a while, but then I she also used to wear babushkas. She's a Polish Rhode Islander, you know. She didn't get fashionable and glamorous until she moved to California.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Teresa
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 01:44 AM

Ah, that explains why I wear them. Hahaha, well, only partially. I've never even approached being "fashionable", "glamorous", or "ladylike". :)

Teresa

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: open mike
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 03:20 AM

remember when they were called rubbers?

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: rich-joy
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 04:38 AM

When I was a gel (in the 50s), in Oz, we had "galoshes" that were a soft rubber and were pulled on OVER your shoes and only came up to your ankles. This was in the days when it actually used to RAIN in Perth, Western Australia ...
(we didn't know anyone with Wellington Boots, or Gumboots, coz we were in the 'burbs)

Cheers!
R-J

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Morticia
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 04:06 PM

I got a pair of 'wellies' for my birthday, yesterday. They have froggie eyes on them..........I was chuffed.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 04:53 PM

Wellies...I got wellies. I got Sorels, too, for when it get really cold out. And I got some zip-up weather boots.

Here's your five-buckle galoshes. They can also be had in all black, like we used to wear to school and play when I was a kid.

Joe, they're quite well know on ranches around here.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 05:00 PM

Those look like rich kid's rubber boots. Mine was just plain black. Except for the red bicycle innertube patches of course.

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 30 Jan 05 - 07:23 PM

Time for the Big Yin's wellie song.

'If ye did not have yer wellies
Where would ye be....'

Subject: ADD: If ye didnae have yer wellies
From: Joe Offer
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 03:13 AM

This page (click) has lyrics to two versions, with tentative attribution to Billy Connolly. Anybody have a more accurate version?
-Joe Offer-

If ye didnae have yer wellies, where would ye be
youd be in the hospital or infirmareeeeeeee
you could have a dose o the flu, or even pleurisyyyeee
if ye didnae have yer feet in yer wellies!

Oh wellies they are wonderful
oh wellies they are swell
cos they keep out the water
but they keep in the smell

---

CHORUS
If it wasn't for your wellies where would you be
You'd be in the hospital or infirmary
'Cause you would have a dose of the flu or even pleurisy
If you didn't have your feet in your wellies

Oh wellies they are wonderful, oh wellies they are swell
'Cause they keep out the water and they keep in the smell
And when you're sitting in a room you can always tell
When some bugger takes off his wellies

CHORUS

Oh and when you're out walking in the country with a bird
And you're strolling over fields just like a farmer's herd
And somebody shouts, "Keep off the grass" and you think how absurd
and SQUELCH you find why farmers all wear wellies

CHORUS

There's fishermen and firemen, there's farmers and all
Men out digging ditches and working in the snow
This country it would grind to a halt and not a thing would grow
If it wasn't for the workers in their wellies

CHORUS

Oh Edward, Heath and Wilson they haven't made a hit
So you'd better get your feet in your wellies

CHORUS

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Morticia
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 06:45 AM

Last verse is:

Edward Heath and Wilson, they haven't made a hit
They're ruining this country more than just a bit
If they keep on they way they are, we'll all be in the s**t
So you'd better get your feet in your wellies

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: GUEST,Mingulay at work
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 12:29 PM

Galoshes are overshoes.

Wellies are knee length.

Anything above that are waders.

There are three 97 year olds living in Peebles who still wear galoshes.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: frogprince
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 02:00 PM

Never called the five-buckle monsters anything except "overshoes" back on the farm. For that matter, for light or dress use we had lower zipper "dress overshoes". I knew there were "galoshes", but I guess I just thought it was a word, for any kind of rubber footwear, that we weren't in the habit of using.
(about the time I got out of high school, I realized that them "cantalopes" people talked about were the "musk melons" we had always eaten).

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: GUEST,Charmion at work
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 03:08 PM

In Ottawa, most men who have to wear "business attire" (suit & tie with polished oxfords) in winter also wear galoshes -- i.e., rubber or rubberized nylon zippered boots that pull over their shoes. I haven't seen female-type galoshes since the early 1960s, when my granny wore a darling pair with silk ties and fox fur around the tops. The only time I have ever had the pleasure of galoshes was during my seven years in the Canadian Forces, which used to issue sturdy rubber overshoes for wear with combat boots in cold, wet conditions such as any typical winter day in the Atlantic provinces. The combination of combat boot + combat overboot came to something like seven pounds of footwear per foot. Great for developing leg muscle; lousy for practically anything else -- although your feet were dry.

As for ear-muffs -- I WEAR EARMUFFS! Mink ones that Edmund gave me for Christmas. Just the thing when the wind is down and the still air temperature hovers around -10C, which is just a little too balmy for the all-encompassing Official Winter Hat but still cold enough to produce serious pain in the tips of my ears, which were frostbitten years ago and never quite got over it.

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Joybell
Date: 31 Jan 05 - 07:09 PM

Sob! Sob! No we don't have them tucked away. We can't get them here any more. They are great! I long for my faithful galoshes. They probably woudn't fit because I was 5 when I last had a pair. They went away in Melbourne in the 60s and we still remember them with great affection. Hoards of desperate poeple tramp the city streets in search of them. But the're gone! Gone like the dodo and the giant auk. Lucky lucky friends. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 01:45 PM

I too remember them being called "rubbers" and remember a friend being totally embarrassed when she announced at work that she wouldn't date a certain gentleman because he wore rubbers. She meant he was a dork but we had to explain to her why everybody laughed.

I had a pair when I was about 9. They had Hopalong Cassidy on them, hand me downs from my brother. I hated them. Wish I had them today - an Ebay coup!

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: GUEST,Layah
Date: 01 Feb 05 - 06:38 PM

I think Wellingtons must be getting trendy, as I have seen them all over the shoe stores here, in many pretty colors and patterns. Of course it might just be here, I've never been in Edinburgh before. It rains non-stop. I should ask my friends back in sunny California if they are all over the stores there. I used to have galoshes when I was little, and those went over my shoes. I never heard people say Wellingtons until I got here, but I have no idea what I would have called them before. Probably "rubber boot thingies that you wear but not over shoes"

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Feb 05 - 06:54 PM

We call them "gum boots" here in Aus. Wellies that is. We wear them all year round because of the snakes that share our place. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: People wearing Galoshes
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 03 Feb 05 - 06:47 PM

They know how to live in Peebles. Those 97 year olds drink Glenlivet 12 year old from their galoshes before throwing up their kilts and making passionate love in the heather. this is a fact and you can witness it most nights.

and as for Aberfeldy....