Toni, the reference to fragile being pronounces "Fra Gee Lay" comes from the movie A Christmas Story. This is a very popular Christmas movie as it chronicles the life of a 11 year old boy who wants a BB gun for Christmas. In the movie the father of the little boy, Ralphie, who wants the Red Ryder BB gun enters a contest in the local newspaper. A few weeks later he receives a letter in the mail that he has won a "major award".
Time passes and one evening while they are eating dinner they hear a knock at the door. The family goes to see who is there and find two moving men with a large crate. This crate contains the "major award". The crate is brought into the house and laid down on the floor. On its exterior the word "FRAGILE" is stenciled several times. The father says to the family, "FRA GEE LAY", it must be from Italy". He is corrected by his wife immediately.
He tears into the crate with a crow bar and after digging through mounds of wooden excelsior he finds the leg of this lamp. More digging and he finds the lamp shade.
He assembles his lamp and puts it on a table right in the middle of front picture window in the living room for all the neighbors to see.. The wife is less than pleased with the lamp and even less happy about where it is. Ralphie is seen stroking the fishnet stocking clad leg of the lamp. Ralphie. as an adult is the narrator for the movie and makes this comment, "Only one thing in the world could've dragged me away from the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window." That one thing was the Little Orphan Annie radio show.
This movie was based on several short stories by author Jean Shephard who wrote many funny stories. His voice was that of the narrator of the movie. He had a radio program where he told stories.