Lost terminology

[Silent_Rob]

My wife and I had pretty differing upbringing, she in Princeton, NJ and I was from upstate NY -trailor people. We're 3 years apart, Generation X (if you're born after 1980, you're not gen-x) She never heard of an 8-track, wouldn't know what one even looks like. Got me thinking:

So much of our daily terminology stems from the technology we use in our homes. As an early 30-something, we grew up in a time when CD's first came out, a world pre-internet and pre-cable tv. There are some terms totally lost on kids today.

Examples?

Vertical Hold - when was the last time you heard that in a conversation?

-Rob

[Tall_James]

Buying an "album".
Adjusting the "rabbit ears" on the television to get a "UHF" station.
Having a "hi-fi" stereo with "quadrophonic" sound.



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[JPMNICK]

how about when making a mix tape required 3 or 4 days next to the radio with your hand on the play/record button instead of just going to kazaa and downloading the stuff in 20 minutes.

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[Furtherman]

Fleetwood Mac.

I went to an advertising party two weeks ago and Fleetwood Mac closed out the show. When they were introduced a girl close by asked, very loudly, "Who the hell is Fleetwood Mac?" Granted she was 20 something, I still found it hard to believe she had no idea.

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[Mike Teacher]

Heres one that has Shocked many a convenience store or retail cashier into a stunned Even-More Silence:


Thanks a lot


especially when delivered actually looking the person in the eye and with some measure of enthusiam, if not conviction, an act of active engagement for some, a threat for others.

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[Jack_Doff]

I don't thank cashiers because I'm not that grateful that I have to hand cash over to them. I will, however, implore them to "Have a good one."

Remember rolling down the windows in the car? Using that arm with the little knob thing on the end and not just pushing a button? Those were the days.

[TheMojoPin]

This whole notion that nobody uses the term "album" anymore is a farce and a lie.

EVERYONE still says "album." Anyone who says I'm going to get the "new CD by so-and-so" doesn't actually exist. I always hear, "did you get the new album by so-and-so?"

"Album" is a general term for the new musical collection put out by a commercial musical artist. Plenty of people still say it. Hell, I'd say more people say THAT than actually use the terms "record" (Actually applicable to nobody buying vinyl anymore) or "CD" in that context.

Goddamn dirty liars.

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[Tall_James]

This whole notion that nobody uses the term "album" anymore is a farce and a lie.

EVERYONE still says "album." Anyone who says I'm going to get the "new CD by so-and-so" doesn't actually exist. I always hear, "did you get the new album by so-and-so?"

"Album" is a general term for the new musical collection put out by a commercial musical artist. Plenty of people still say it. Hell, I'd say more people say THAT than actually use the terms "record" (Actually applicable to nobody buying vinyl anymore) or "CD" in that context.

Goddamn dirty liars.

Hey! Easy there Grandpa! I'll get the nurse to up your medication and get those neighbor kids off your lawn.


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[Patches]

No one ever seems to say, "sure I'll have sex with you!"

I miss those days.

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[reeshy]

Can opener!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

This whole notion that nobody uses the term "album" anymore is a farce and a lie.

EVERYONE still says "album." Anyone who says I'm going to get the "new CD by so-and-so" doesn't actually exist. I always hear, "did you get the new album by so-and-so?"

"Album" is a general term for the new musical collection put out by a commercial musical artist. Plenty of people still say it. Hell, I'd say more people say THAT than actually use the terms "record" (Actually applicable to nobody buying vinyl anymore) or "CD" in that context.

Goddamn dirty liars.



Hey! Easy there Grandpa! I'll get the nurse to up your medication and get those neighbor kids off your lawn.



Mojo's just pissed because he can't get tickets for Cheap Trick and Aerosmith.

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[Freakshow]

Yes, I'd like to send this letter to the Prussian consulate in
Siam by aeromail. Am I too late for the 4:30 autogyro?



You there, fill it up with petroleum
distillate, and re-vulcanize my tires, post-haste


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[mdr55]

Typewriter
White-Out
Word Processor

[furie]

two my father still uses: Icebox instead of refrigerator and clicker for remote. In true, I use that one too.

He also refers to the keyboard as a typewriter. I don't think most kids have ever seen a typewriter.


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[Silent_Rob]

tell anyone under 25 that you've run out of adapters and can't play your 45's and you'll get back a blank stare

[Mike Teacher]

"Would you PLEASE Stop sucking my Cock?"

That one ya never hear these days

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

Anyone remember when TVs had tubes? My dad would run to the local Radio Shack to test them!

Oh, and God forbid you turned the dial on the TV too fast! Then you were rendered using a pair of plyers to turn the channels (all 7 of them).

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[grlNIN]

how about when making a mix tape required 3 or 4 days next to the radio with your hand on the play/record button instead of just going to kazaa and downloading the stuff in 20 minutes.




I used to spend days requesting all the songs i wanted to put on to a tape from 106.3.

They actually knew my first name by the time my collection was complete.

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[Hottub]

I recently bought a vintage car ('63 Sedan DeVille) and I have to fill her up with

Hi-Test!

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[FUNKMAN]

'eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe' 'if he hollars let him go, eenie meenie miney moe'

' my mother told me to pick the very best one'

you're out

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[Hottub]

'eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe' 'if he hollars let him go, eenie meenie miney moe'


Do you know what the "original" rhyme was...?

If so, just say yes. No need to post it.

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[mikeyboy]

yes

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[FUNKMAN]

No! ??????


when we would bring our own ball to a baseball or football game at the local park but had to leave early we would say "i got chips' which meant they could use the ball so the game wouldn't end but they had to pay for it if they lost it...

where it came from 'i have no idea' and where it went 'i don't know'

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[TheMojoPin]

This whole notion that nobody uses the term "album" anymore is a farce and a lie.

EVERYONE still says "album." Anyone who says I'm going to get the "new CD by so-and-so" doesn't actually exist. I always hear, "did you get the new album by so-and-so?"

"Album" is a general term for the new musical collection put out by a commercial musical artist. Plenty of people still say it. Hell, I'd say more people say THAT than actually use the terms "record" (Actually applicable to nobody buying vinyl anymore) or "CD" in that context.

Goddamn dirty liars.



Hey! Easy there Grandpa! I'll get the nurse to up your medication and get those neighbor kids off your lawn.



Mojo's just pissed because he can't get tickets for Cheap Trick and Aerosmith.

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"Hey, Ricky! Tell these lame-o's to get off my lawn!"

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[newport king]

flatleavers. that was a good one i never hear anymore.

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[Freakshow]

I think record is still a viable word. My band played two record release shows in April (one was an actual 7" vinyl record release).

But I will use the term CD or disc, or new one. Or shit. All those terms can be used. I call it my CD collection. Or I need some new CDs.


And I but vinyl, damn it: Full-lengths, 7"s, picture discs, 10"s, 5"s even.



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[LordJezo]

Bulletin Board System (BBS)

No one knows that they are anymore unless you were actually on them. I used to dial them up all the time and play loads of door games like LORD and BRE. The internet came along and completely destroyed them all.

How many people remember them?


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[Patches]

I remember MUDs

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[Furtherman]

How many people remember them?


I remember dialing up BBS' in Philly on my Commodore 64 and 300 Baud modem. 300 Baud. Watching paint dry was faster.

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[TheMojoPin]

Man, I remember hooking up to IRC with like my -12.8 speed modem...it was hellish.

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[furie]

I mentioned the game "Red Rover" to a bunch of kids the other day. they had no clue what I was talking about.


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[Tall_James]

I mentioned the game "Red Rover" to a bunch of kids the other day. they had no clue what I was talking about.

Good thing you didn't say "Red Rocket" or else you probably would have been arrested.


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[blancostupido]

I refuse to stop calling them ALBUMs, hell, I just might start calling them 'wax'

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[JustJon]

I mentioned the game "Red Rover" to a bunch of kids the other day. they had no clue what I was talking about.
And yet they still play tag.

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[jeffdwright2001]

Lost terminology

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[A.J.]

Betamax.

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