I've always found phrase origins fascinating - they can give us a glimpse into an entirely different time/reality, and, perhaps more importantly, they remind us of how many things we accept without question. We should definitely be questioning more.
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To: harpygoddess
All depends on who’s ox is getting gored.
2 posted on
05/05/2016 5:06:02 AM PDT by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: harpygoddess
I think I’ll Xerox myself a photocopy.
3 posted on
05/05/2016 5:06:32 AM PDT by
Ueriah
To: harpygoddess
4 posted on
05/05/2016 5:07:13 AM PDT by
Tax-chick
("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
To: harpygoddess
To: harpygoddess
Dial up someone.
About ten years ago, the now nursing student daughter was walking past the living room while father was watching a 1940s B&W movie on TCM, and in the movie someone was making a phone call. She suddenly stopped in her tracks and exclaimed, “So THAT’S why it’s called dialing!”
7 posted on
05/05/2016 5:09:54 AM PDT by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: harpygoddess
Put a penny in the fusebox.
8 posted on
05/05/2016 5:13:50 AM PDT by
WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: harpygoddess
Standing Head (headline)
from the time of typsetting newspapers
9 posted on
05/05/2016 5:16:33 AM PDT by
mistfree
(It's a very uncreative man who can't think of more than one way to spell a word.)
To: harpygoddess
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.
“The Whole 9 Yards” also from WWII. The machine-gun belts were 27 feet long, so when the gunner fired the entire belt, he gave them the whole 9 yards.
10 posted on
05/05/2016 5:17:29 AM PDT by
amigatec
(2 Thess 2:11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:)
To: harpygoddess
Films, movies, to “tape” something.
12 posted on
05/05/2016 5:18:31 AM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: harpygoddess
Some snitch dropped a dime on me.
To: harpygoddess
“The milk man”
Milk used to be delivered to your front door.
15 posted on
05/05/2016 5:20:18 AM PDT by
Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)
To: harpygoddess
The Sprint Store calls my hand me down, 4 yr old smart phones obsolete old tech.
16 posted on
05/05/2016 5:22:16 AM PDT by
Paladin2
(Live Free or Die.)
To: harpygoddess
“Fill ‘er up!”
What you used to say to the guy who came out of the station when you went for gasoline for your car.
17 posted on
05/05/2016 5:24:10 AM PDT by
Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)
To: harpygoddess
Technology conditioning for humans:
- When entering a dark room, people will automatically grope at the wall next to the door for a light switch. This is a conditioned behavior.
- Cell phone “yawn.” Much like yawning can be contagious, people will instinctively reach for or check their own phone when someone else in the bar/room/meeting does so.
18 posted on
05/05/2016 5:25:37 AM PDT by
ConservativeWarrior
(Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
To: harpygoddess
This collection also highlights how many phrases we take for granted are of nautical and printers’ origins. The English race has always been sea going and our inherited language is filled with sailors’ jargon. And Americans from colonial times were a highly literate people. Ben Franklin might not have been even an historical footnote (pun intended) if he hadn’t chosen printer as his profession.
19 posted on
05/05/2016 5:27:34 AM PDT by
katana
To: harpygoddess
World ends. Film at 11:00.
20 posted on
05/05/2016 5:27:39 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: harpygoddess
22 posted on
05/05/2016 5:31:08 AM PDT by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(It's a shame enobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
To: harpygoddess
Lock, stock and barrel. (Flintlock rifle)
23 posted on
05/05/2016 5:31:21 AM PDT by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: harpygoddess
tv was the tube, memory banks
To: harpygoddess
Hanging fire.
Keep your powder dry.
The whole nine yards.
Lock, stock, and barrel.
25 posted on
05/05/2016 5:37:37 AM PDT by
IronJack
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