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What phrases commonly used today are derived from obsolete technologies?
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| 05/04/2016
| HarpyGoddess
Posted on 05/05/2016 5:03:45 AM PDT by harpygoddess
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
Note: this topic is from . Thanks harpygoddess. This got added to the GGG catalog long ago, but never got the standard message or a ping.
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posted on
01/04/2020 10:43:18 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Tax-chick
The dial is right next to the Any key.
To: XEHRpa
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posted on
01/04/2020 11:32:19 AM PST
by
Alas Babylon!
(The prisons do not fill themselves. Get moving, Barr!)
To: central_va; SunkenCiv; All
Going back to earlier times, “slave driver.”
To: harpygoddess
“Got their teat caught in the wringer”.
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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)
To: harpygoddess
Try telling someone that it was a Kodak moment and youll get a puzzled sideways look!
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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!)
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.
To: harpygoddess
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posted on
01/04/2020 1:25:10 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(My tagline is in the shop.)
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."
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posted on
01/04/2020 1:26:31 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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. ;-)
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posted on
01/04/2020 1:33:02 PM PST
by
nutmeg
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.
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posted on
01/04/2020 1:43:57 PM PST
by
blam
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
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posted on
01/04/2020 1:47:07 PM PST
by
blam
To: a fool in paradise
A lot of young people don’t know what a dial is.
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posted on
01/04/2020 1:48:53 PM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Make yourself useful. And don't die!)
To: Tax-chick
You’re right I thought everybody knew dial is a bar soap!!!
:-)
To: harpygoddess
Maybe I can find one in the glovebox. Glove compartment. Whatever. Needle is stuck.
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posted on
01/04/2020 2:16:59 PM PST
by
Pelham
(RIP California, killed by massive immigration)
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.
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posted on
01/04/2020 2:22:28 PM PST
by
xp38
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.
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posted on
01/04/2020 2:28:53 PM PST
by
Starstruck
(I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
To: Chickensoup
My wife still calls the refrigerator the “Icebox” even through she has never used one. Its what her grandmother called it.
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posted on
01/04/2020 2:30:51 PM PST
by
Fzob
To: harpygoddess
Don’t forget to “pull the chain”...
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posted on
01/04/2020 3:55:30 PM PST
by
Paisan
To: rlmorel
It was a moth and she taped it to a page in her notebook with a notation. Documentation.
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