I prefer the term "to fire up the Colortini" because I dig/dug Tom Snyder.

To call it a "teevee machine" is like saying "the internets" or "the twitter". It's way to have some mild fun.

I just never picked up on the sarcasm here. It always seemed the person was being serious. I was like, ok, call it a teevee machine if you wish, I'll call it a TV

was invented.

Seriously though, I remember friends of my grandmother calling the telephone (rotary) "the machine".

I never heard that one! The most old school term I remember, was my parents calling a refrigerator the "icebox". I had visions in my head of people using big tongs to move big blocks of ice into the house

"Did you hear that commercial on the electric radio?"

"I was listening to Rush on the electric radio."

He was actually a pretty nice guy, so I never asked him what other kind there was.

Maybe his family was poor and could only afford a crystal set when he was growing up.

Battery operated radios.

They still exist.

They use electricity to make them work, just like the radios that plug into the wall. The electricity comes from a portable battery that stores a charge instead of directly using the electricity that comes out of the wall.

When someone refers to electric radio, they usually mean the kind you plug in the wall.

Otherwise they would refer to it as a battery operated radio.

That's my take on it.

I still don't understand why someone would call it "electric radio", unless you lived in a day where there were no battery operated or plug-in radios.

I find it a bit irritating, frankly

But I'm a big Early Cuyler fan