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BurtWorm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 04:09 PM Original message |
Idiomatic relics of an earlier age |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
1. I love it how on TV, people still tap the dial and shout "Hello operator?" when the line's dead |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Plus, that phone ringing sound |
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AwakeAtLast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 11:14 PM Response to Reply #6 |
20. Except for the shows that use MY phone's ring, sending me running for mine |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:32 AM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Yep, that BUGS me. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
2. If it comes to that, how many "phones" today actually "ring" at all? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:31 AM Response to Reply #2 |
8. I hate the old-fashioned ring, it's so jarring to my hyper-sensitive ears. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:41 PM Response to Reply #2 |
12. My friends made fun of my ringtone because it sounds like a real phone ringing. |
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david13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 03:45 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. You have available a panoply of 'ring tones' which includes some |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 07:51 PM Response to Reply #2 |
16. My dad's whipcracks when his boss calls. (nt) |
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styersc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. I once asked my daughter to "turn the channel" (TV) and she was |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:37 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Once I told my kid she sounded like a broken record |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-03-10 11:41 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I need to remember both of these. I'm teaching the 1950s in class now. |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 05:28 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Your kid is a juvenile delinquint |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 12:33 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. LOL. I'm 23, but I grew up in a poor rural area and I remeber the old TVs and rabbit ears well. |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-02-10 08:36 PM Response to Original message |
4. Mostly they text |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
11. well, it's still a phone, is it not? |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 06:36 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. A "cellular telephone" is actually a medium-range multi-channel two-way radio. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 10:26 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. but isn't that like saying an analog television is a cathode ray tube receiver? |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
17. I used to 'type'. Now I 'keyboard'? |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-04-10 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
19. "drop a dime" last heard that one about 5 years ago. |
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