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  2. Good old days - Wikipedia

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    Good old days – commonly stylized as "good ol' days" – is a cliché in popular culture used to reference a time considered by the speaker to be better than the current era. It is a form of nostalgia that can reflect homesickness or yearning for long-gone moments.

  3. Good Old Boys - Wikipedia

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    The Good Old Boys, a 1995 TV movie directed by Tommy Lee Jones; Good Old Boys (Randy Newman album), 1974; Good Old Boys (John Hartford album), 1999 "Theme from The Dukes of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)", 1980 single by Waylon Jennings; Good Ol' Boys, a 1994 album from The Bob & Tom Show; The Good Ol' Boys, a fictional band featured in The Blues Brothers

  4. Old boy network - Wikipedia

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    An old boy network (also known as old boys' network, old boys' club) is an informal system in which wealthy men with similar social or educational backgrounds help each other in business or personal matters. [1]

  5. Glossary of Texas A&M University terms - Wikipedia

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    Ol' Army (or Old Army) Sentimental term for a fond view of Texas A&M's past or "the good old days." [4] [6] [7] Ol' Lady (or Old Lady) Corps of Cadet member's roommate. As freshmen, cadets are not allowed to refer to their personal living space as a "room", but instead, refer to it as a "hole".

  6. 'Good ole boys' Pasadena police gang attacked, demeaned ...

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    Current and former Pasadena police officers, all of them people of color, allege they suffered assaults, discrimination and retaliation by fellow officers.

  7. Nostalgia - Wikipedia

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    Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. [2] The word nostalgia is a neoclassical compound derived from Greek, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), a Homeric word meaning "homecoming", and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain"; the word was coined by a 17th-century medical student to describe the anxieties displayed by Swiss ...

  8. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

  9. Blighty - Wikipedia

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    Blighty is commonly used as a term of endearment by the expatriate British community or those on holiday to refer to home. In Hobson-Jobson, an 1886 historical dictionary of Anglo-Indian words, Henry Yule and Arthur Coke Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.