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What phrases commonly used today are derived from obsolete technologies?
VA Viper ^ | 05/04/2016 | HarpyGoddess

Posted on 05/05/2016 5:03:45 AM PDT by harpygoddess

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Note: this topic is from 05/05/2016. Thanks harpygoddess. This got added to the GGG catalog long ago, but never got the standard message or a ping.

161 posted on 01/04/2020 10:43:18 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Tax-chick

The dial is right next to the Any key.


162 posted on 01/04/2020 10:47:31 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Decade of decision for America)
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To: XEHRpa

Well, Focus was from the Netherlands, so Hocus Pocus!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-adsDeltaM


163 posted on 01/04/2020 11:32:19 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
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To: central_va; SunkenCiv; All

Going back to earlier times, “slave driver.”


164 posted on 01/04/2020 11:41:52 AM PST by gleeaikin
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To: harpygoddess

“Got their teat caught in the wringer”.


165 posted on 01/04/2020 12:45:45 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: harpygoddess

Try telling someone that it was a “Kodak moment” and you’ll get a puzzled sideways look!


166 posted on 01/04/2020 12:58:27 PM PST by BelleAl (Proud to be a member of the party of NO! NO more deficit spending and government control!)
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To: Ditter

... ice was delivered to your “ice box” to keep your milk cold. I even remember it delivered by a horse drawn wagon!
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Absolutely!

And the ragman, who also has a horse-drawn wagon.


167 posted on 01/04/2020 1:24:00 PM PST by reformedliberal
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To: harpygoddess

Turn the channel


168 posted on 01/04/2020 1:25:10 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: amigatec
Also “Balls to the Wall” was from WWII, then a fighter pushed the throttle all the way forward, the little ball on top of the throttle was against the Firewall. The throttle ball was to the firewall.



"Top hole. Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's your father. Hairy blighter, dicky-birdied, feathered back on his Sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie."

169 posted on 01/04/2020 1:26:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: harpygoddess

LOL, I remember my grandparents used to yell “Pipe down!” to me and my many cousins when we were little kids, running around making noise. Haven’t heard that one in decades. ;-)


170 posted on 01/04/2020 1:33:02 PM PST by nutmeg
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To: Ditter
"What you used to say to the guy who came out of the station when you went for gasoline for your car."

Hey Ditter. Been a while.

I can remember the ice man delivering ice for our wooden ice box.

We have a service station here in town that has 'full service' with a fill-up. You pull in and five guys/gals immediately fill your gas tank, fluff your tires, vacuum your inside floors, clean all your windows, check your oil and radiator water, all in about three minutes. They've been doing this since the early 60's. The attendants are young people and they're so friendly that you want to give them a tip.

171 posted on 01/04/2020 1:43:57 PM PST by blam
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To: Ditter
Ditter, I'm sorry. (Your post #58)
I should have read the whole thread before I told you about the ice man. What a coincidence that we both would mention the ice man
172 posted on 01/04/2020 1:47:07 PM PST by blam
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To: a fool in paradise

A lot of young people don’t know what a dial is.


173 posted on 01/04/2020 1:48:53 PM PST by Tax-chick (Make yourself useful. And don't die!)
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To: Tax-chick

You’re right I thought everybody knew dial is a bar soap!!!

:-)


174 posted on 01/04/2020 1:50:56 PM PST by MIA_eccl1212
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To: harpygoddess

Maybe I can find one in the glovebox. Glove compartment. Whatever. Needle is stuck.


175 posted on 01/04/2020 2:16:59 PM PST by Pelham (RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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To: Ditter

You can still say that in New Jersey and Oregon. We still have a few gas stations locally that are called full serve as opposed to self serve and can say that but you pay more for that.


176 posted on 01/04/2020 2:22:28 PM PST by xp38
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To: WildHighlander57
Put a penny in the fusebox.

Sorry but I still have one of those fuse boxes in my workshop and have used the penny until I got a new fuse.

177 posted on 01/04/2020 2:28:53 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Chickensoup

My wife still calls the refrigerator the “Icebox” even through she has never used one. Its what her grandmother called it.


178 posted on 01/04/2020 2:30:51 PM PST by Fzob
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To: harpygoddess

Don’t forget to “pull the chain”...


179 posted on 01/04/2020 3:55:30 PM PST by Paisan
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To: rlmorel

It was a moth and she taped it to a page in her notebook with a notation. Documentation.


180 posted on 01/04/2020 4:01:36 PM PST by AFreeBird
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