Everyday obsoleted terms...

[c.n.budz]

lol, "you sound like a scratched CD" just doesn't have the same ring to it

How about "you sound like a corrupted Mp3"

 

[z987k]

How about carburetor? Or condenser? Or ignition coil?


Or for that matter, road map? Everybody's got frickin Garmin these days..................

Bike has 4 carbs, 2 ignition coils. Car has 1 ignition coil and a condenser (A/C anyone?) In fact what car doesn't have ignition coils? Even if they do have 1 per cylinder?

 

[Rick_R]

or AM radio...or FM...does anyone listen to the radio anymore?

Well, yeah, but usually my Sirius satellite radio.

Rick

 

[BrianP]

dual cassette deck

auto-reverse

high speed dubbing

 

[DeathBrewer]

How about "you sound like a corrupted Mp3"

you sound like a "bad rip"

 

[jds]

Whitewall Tires
Laserdisc
Cassette Tape
stenographer

This thread is the Bee's Knees, daddy-o

 

[joejaz]

air-raid drills, fallout shelters, party lines, chug-a-mugs (that they should bring back, but not with Reingold), Ballentine Beer (not Ale) who remembers the cardboard beer containers

 

[Dr Vorlauf]

I don't think walkman qualifies in quite the same way as carriage return.

Indeed the walkman concept is very much alive, they are just white now...!
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You are right. I stopped using my Ipod or MP3 player. Went back to the Walkman. I loves me the nice cassette tape and analog tuning! Not an anachronism at all. Cant wait to buy a new 8 track player..

You press carriage return at every enter.. Same place and function ..

 

[kornkob]

You are correct; I was focusing on the "tone" part. Of course, I guess "dial" has just taken on a different meaning.

Kind of like "rolling" down the window of a car. Some six or seven years ago or so now, my daughter was around fifteen/sixteen and got in the car with my brother. He asked her to roll down the window and she couldn't find the switch. It had a hand crank and she had never seen one.

I suppose the window still has wheels or gears inside that roll, which is why I didn't mention it in my first post.

Rick

We do dial. It's just that the verb dial has evolved to refer to the act of entering a numer in a telephony device and has nothing to do with the noun 'dial'.

One thing you have to remember: English is a language that evolves over time. Words change meaning and spelling over time. (Never mind what the people in the UK like to believe)

 

[olllllo]

Dallas playoff win.

 

[Rick_R]

Dallas playoff win.

*laugh*

Rick

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Dallas playoff win.

Everybody stop. We have a winner!!!!!!!!!

 

[Spyk'd]

peanut gallery.

 

[wild]

Card Reader
CRT
Vacuum Tubes (Radios and TVs)
Crystal Radios
Transister Radios
HiFi

 

[beergears]

Punch cards (as in stack of punch cards for programming)

 

[pjj2ba]

You press carriage return at every enter.. Same place and function ..

I teach a distance education course (Plants and People) and I have a range of student ages in the course, anywhere from 20-70 yrs old, mostly in the 25-44 bracket. Assignments are submitted to me as a Word file. Every semester I have several students who put a carraige return (paragraph mark) at the end of EVERY line, just as if they were using an electric typewriter.

 

[Rhoobarb]

Service Station: for the old full-service gas station, where a person who actually spoke English and had a name like Ernie, Merle, Vince or Gus embroidered on his shirt checked your oil, tire pressure and washed your windows while they filled your gas tank.

Does anyone remember Champale?

 

[paulthenurse]

Oh, duh. I forgot about small engines. I just had the carb cleaned out on my ice drill last year.:cross:

OT I know, but what's an ice drill?

PTN

 

[bigjohnmilford]

OT I know, but what's an ice drill?

PTN

I'd say it's a auger for ice fishing or ice drinking.

 

[paulthenurse]

I still call CDs "ALBUMS"
My kids are, like, WTF?

My kids found my stash of old albums a long time ago. They got a huge kick out of going thru the stack, then I hear one of them say to the other, "Look at the size of these CD's. These things are enourmous!" I laughed so hard my sides hurt, confirming for them that the old man was ready for the looney bin. Too bad I don't have a turntable anymore, I doubt I could ever find a Uriah Heep CD today.

PTN

 

[paulthenurse]

I'd say it's a auger for ice fishing or ice drinking.

Oh ok, I guess that makes sense. If anything about driving a truck out onto a lake and drilling holes in the ice makes sense.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

Oh ok, I guess that makes sense. If anything about driving a truck out onto a lake and drilling holes in the ice makes sense.

It makes perfect sense! But if you have to ask, you wouldn't understand.........

 

[Melana]

The first thing that comes to mind is 'If you have to ask, big man, you can't afford it'

 

[beergears]

Too bad I don't have a turntable anymore,

I kept two!

I am hoarding.

 

[Soulive]

Parlor
Lavatory
Handkerchief

 

[niquejim]

My kids found my stash of old albums a long time ago. They got a huge kick out of going thru the stack, then I hear one of them say to the other, "Look at the size of these CD's. These things are enourmous!" I laughed so hard my sides hurt, confirming for them that the old man was ready for the looney bin. Too bad I don't have a turntable anymore, I doubt I could ever find a Uriah Heep CD today.

PTN

I have several Uriah Heep Cd's and there are turntables that tansfer to MP3.

"Quote rickylr"
I know they are adding it to dictionaries, but normally include that it is considered incorrect usage, an American dialectical form.

Similar to "alot," which is used a lot in writing and I expect will be added to dictionaries at some point soon as incorrect usage. In my mind, sticking it in a dictionary doesn't make it correct usage.

Of course, this is my opinion; the world doesn't have to go along with me.

Words are added to the dictionary all the time. Just "Google" it

 

[Rick_R]

I doubt I could ever find a Uriah Heep CD today

Well, I got mine somewhere. Not today -- a few (many) years ago -- but it is a CD. Always loved the song The Wizard.



Rick

 

[WAID]

My TV has knobs still, 2-13 and UHF Of course it's older than I am. There are still lots of vacuum tubes out the too, and not just the ones dad collected, many guitar and bass amps still use them.

How about floppy disk.

Some of this is making be feel a little behind the times.

 

[Oakwoodforge]

Crank your engine over ? And I mean Hand engine starting crank...

 

[EvilTOJ]

Degauss your monitor.

Also, connecting to the internet.