Older euphemisms

I was playing the other night with some of my clan mates and I told one of the AOW "Tarts" she had a nice set of getaway sticks.  Out of the five people playing, nobody knew what I was talking about.  It took 2 more people joining until finally one of the 3 older than me knew what that meant.  Since then I've asked everybody and only 2 people knew it immediately and a couple more knew once they thought about it.  Has nobody watched Mickey Spillane?  Any of the old gumshoe movies?  I'm not a big fan, but I have sat down and watched a few, the ones where the private dick is in his office smoking, his drop dead gorgeous secretary comes in and announces an even hotter new client, yada yada yada.  I swear, pretty soon I'm going to mention Caddyshack or Porky's and somebody's going to say "I don't watch old movies" and I'm going to quietly turn off the tv, hike my pants up to my breasts, get out my black socks and sandals, and sit on the porch and watch the traffic go by while drinking bourbon out of a mason jar. 

If you don't know what a mason jar is, please don't comment on this, it will just make me feel worse