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dialed a phone?

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prolly right around the last time i made a carbon copy... maybe 1982?

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yesterday?

call me old fashioned.

oh, i get it! okay, 1980-something. no, not true. 2000something, i think. old phone.

but yeah, we still call it a "dialtone," we still call it dialing. and those old phones still work, but they're miserable to carry around in your pocket.

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WHATS UP WITH THIS I HAVE EREAD SOME OF YOUR REPLYS YOUR SUPER FUNNY QB

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QueenB

I am going to track your every post with breathless anticipation.

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defrosted the fridge

taped a TV show

played a record

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We can't stop ourselves saying "tape" when we mean record a TV programme.
"It's on the tape", er, DVD

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The original meaning of clockwise and counterclockwise will be obsolete any day now.

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mac11 wrote:

The original meaning of clockwise and counterclockwise will be obsolete any day now.

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/aprilfool/comments/890/

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I know a lot of 20-something musicians who talk about "recording" and putting out a new "record", who may never have actually listened to a record in their lives.

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There are eople who put out a dealie to adapt an old dial phone handset--whatever you call the thing you hold and put up to your ear on a dial phone, so that you can use it with a cellphone, since it's hard to hold the cell up to your ear with just your shoulder, like you could with the old phones. Of course the Bluetooth earpieces may make the handset kludge obsolete again.

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When was your last trip on a pleasure steamer?

Diesel, I bet.

Did you go for a sail?

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Whoo boy, when I was just a teeny kid, we used to take the steamer to BobLo, which was a great amusement park on an island in the Detroit River. The boat had paddlewheels (at least the way I remember it it did), and a walking-beam steam engine, like three stories tall, all copper and brass and steam smelling, slowly cycling back and forth--one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen in my life, and a century beyond its time even then). Those boats had far more charisma than diesels.

What about coal furnaces?

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"Hang up the phone" "hang up and drive"--what do you hang a cellphone on?

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the charger- oh wait, those are just a cord now. and the rest is wireless.

here's another obsolete term: http://www.able2know.org/forums/a2k-post2906101.html#2906101

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played a record

i still have at least 50 lp's and still play a variety of them .
i guess i should copy them to disk , but i have an excellent SONY (!) turntable - so i probably just keep the lp's .
hbg

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Remember wet photocopies where the paper was brown-tinged and stuck together? And gestetners?

And black and white tvs where you had to turn the knob and you always got the screen with the wonky vertical?

And the old-fashioned radios that sat on the mantle?

Librarian stamps at the end of a pen? Smile

And the library books had a pocket with the lending card in it so you could see who had it before you?

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I deliberately put a fuzzy picture up there so nobody would know how old I am Smile

I'm more used to Americans thinking we have moose running in the streets and snow all the time than square wheels Smile

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Mame wrote:

Librarian stamps at the end of a pen?

i remember those. librarians are a great resource of things we assume have gone out of style.

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I remember as a kid I could buy a pack cigarettes and no one would even think twice,

... but I would have never even thought to mention the word "condom" in public, let alone ask a druggist for one.

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