It's just the kind of funny old-fashioned thing he likes.
I have their letters now, and very fine ones they are, though they would seem old-fashioned to you young things.
There was Gregory, of course, with whom she had that old-fashioned thing an 'understanding'.
They have a fantastic flavor, these old-fashioned things from the past.
"Being Mom is the most old-fashioned thing a woman can do."
The house was small and comfortable with a lot of plastic plus old-fashioned things.
This may sound an old-fashioned thing to say, because it has been true for at least 10 years.
I don't believe he's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left.
It was perhaps an old-fashioned thing to do, to put up applesauce.
"A lot of the old-fashioned things are what kids like to do."