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Post by Catman on Jul 4, 2020 23:53:30 GMT
Remember that special number which you could dial to get your own phone to ring?
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 4, 2020 23:54:35 GMT
I can hear the dial tone, did you hang up the receiver ? Telephones on which you actually hung up the receiver predate even you and me.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 4, 2020 23:57:05 GMT
Most of the google images show a loopy string .... tin can phone = lost tehnology !
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Post by marianne48 on Jul 5, 2020 2:38:31 GMT
Is "Jeepers Creepers" still used? Well, I do, but I get some puzzled looks afterwards.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 5, 2020 3:18:08 GMT
Remember that special number which you could dial to get your own phone to ring? and calling the WE number to get the weather report and no matter where you were, it was always the same lady's voice ? and being able to call an operator to ask for a phone # .... for FREE !
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Post by autumn on Jul 5, 2020 3:47:39 GMT
Remember that special number which you could dial to get your own phone to ring? and calling the WE number to get the weather report and no matter where you were, it was always the same lady's voice ? and being able to call an operator to ask for a phone # .... for FREE ! The operators would also give you the address!
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Post by autumn on Jul 5, 2020 4:03:00 GMT
"Time to blouse this popsicle stand."
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 5, 2020 4:05:06 GMT
"Send me a wire so I know you made it home !" a wire = a telegram a telegram = something like a short e-mail delivered to your door
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Post by BATouttaheck on Jul 5, 2020 4:05:48 GMT
"Time to blouse this popsicle stand." never heard THAT one ...whuzzit mean ? wherezit from ? Blouse ?
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Post by Schwarzwald Magnus on Jul 5, 2020 4:15:58 GMT
Off the chain/hook.
Do him a solid.
That don't jive with me.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Jul 5, 2020 4:30:41 GMT
Off the chain/Off the hook
Talk to the hand
All that and a bag of chips
Knockin' boots
Going postal
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Post by alfromni on Jul 5, 2020 4:31:29 GMT
Don't hear "Gimme Five" any more.
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Post by alfromni on Jul 5, 2020 5:38:05 GMT
I think "Gimme some skin" has gone out of vogue. Personally I detest the expression.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 5, 2020 8:49:29 GMT
I think "Gimme some skin" has gone out of vogue. Personally I detest the expression. That's another that goes back to the Swing Era.
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Post by Morgana on Jul 5, 2020 9:36:37 GMT
hoist with his own petard
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Post by alfromni on Jul 5, 2020 10:45:40 GMT
Morgana --- "Hoist with his own petard" comes from a speech in "Hamlet" and ergo is still used fairly frequently. Perhaps more in the UK than in the US.
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Post by Morgana on Jul 5, 2020 10:58:49 GMT
Morgana --- "Hoist with his own petard" comes from a speech in "Hamlet" and ergo is still used fairly frequently. Perhaps more in the UK than in the US. I knew it came from Shakespeare but I don't think it's used much any more, maybe never in America. By the way, your avatar is called Arthur, I think? Was that a comic strip character of a northerner or a TV series?
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Post by alfromni on Jul 5, 2020 11:06:55 GMT
Morgana - Re avatar. He's called different names in different countries. In the UK he's Andy Capp. I think he originated as a newspaper cartoon strip. There was a Brit TV series made of him in 1988 starring James Bolam, but it flopped.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Jul 5, 2020 11:07:35 GMT
Morgana --- "Hoist with his own petard" comes from a speech in "Hamlet" and ergo is still used fairly frequently. Perhaps more in the UK than in the US. I knew it came from Shakespeare but I don't think it's used much any more, maybe never in America. By the way, your avatar is called Arthur, I think? Was that a comic strip character of a northerner or a TV series? It is used in the U.S. and, often as not, misused. It's not uncommon to hear someone say "hoist/hoisted from/by his own petard," which, of course, indicates a misunderstanding of its original meaning.
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Post by Morgana on Jul 5, 2020 11:12:00 GMT
Morgana - Re avatar. He's called different names in different countries. In the UK he's Andy Capp. I think he originated as a newspaper cartoon strip. There was a Brit TV show made of him starring James Bolam, but it flopped. I knew he was a northerner from his cap! No one wears them any more do they?
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