Straight Line of the Day: Another tell…
In a comment, Kriegsbringer pointed out:
Knowing what ‘drop a dime’ means rather dates us all, I suspect.
What other term would expose you as being born before the year 2000?
Straight Line of the Day: Another tell…
In a comment, Kriegsbringer pointed out:
Knowing what ‘drop a dime’ means rather dates us all, I suspect.
What other term would expose you as being born before the year 2000?
Socialism is bad.
“Work Ethic”
“God bless America”
William J. LePetomane Thruway
William
…One Bill Clinton favorite, starting a statement with… Everybody knows that…
I think we’re all Bozo’s on this bus.
Another Tell? Pretty much all the staples of SLotD… Every Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python, Animal House, Pink Panther, Dirty Harry, Ghostbusters… reference.
Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.
Never have…never will.
You never wore a seat belt as a kid.
Your parent’s right arm WAS your seatbelt if you got to ride shotgun.
Don’t take any wooden nickels…
Chrome bumpers…
Dimmer switch by the footfeet.
“He don’t know sh*t from Shinola!”
I wonder how the folks at the Shinola Co. felt about this.
They felt nothing…they didn’t know s**t from Shinola either.
Shave and a haircut………..
two bits!
Actually, in today’s money it’s closer to 90 bits.
Suum cuique…
It ain’t over ‘til the fat lady sings…
Sorry you got a busy signal for so long, I was logged onto the internet.
Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin
The brains to hand over $22.07 in cash for something that costs 6 dollars and 57 cents.
You bet your sweet bippy!
As Happy as a Hobo with a ham sandwich
Sock it to me.
Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls.
Gaslighting…
Burma Shave
Rotary phone
Acoustic modem
“Groovy”
Nixie Tube voltmeter
Dot matrix printer
Fortran iV
Punch cards…
One has heard of such things from the elders at night when they tell tales to frighten the children; but surely that is what they are?
Paging Chad.
“Tonight we’re gonna have a really big shew.” (a million thanks Ed.)
Lotus 1-2-3
Typewriter
Chevette, Citation, Chevelle, El Camino, Cavalier, Monza, Vega
Rotary phone
Party Line
Netscape navigator
Muncie Rock Crusher, dual point and CD ignition, suicide doors, oil filter as an option, W30/31, GTO, Toronado
Romanes eunt domus
Yeah…yeah…I know Romani ite domum is grammatically correct, but I was never very good at Latin…
Get better by morning or we’ll cut your balls off.
Truth, justice and the American Way.
This kid’s got Moxie!
I hate moxie
Who is that masked man?
That’s the Lone Biden…hi-o Silver!
Hang up the phone
Transistor radio…
Don’t touch that dial
Phone booth
Pager
Floppy disk (Not sure there, since the Obamacare website programmers probably used the 8″ ones)
Phone books
Slide show
Space Invaders
Pong
Disposable cameras
Encyclopedias
Lydia oh Lydia the encyclopedia…
Roll the window down, please.
Rabbit ears with aluminum foil
I can picture two Millennials — one standing on top of the other, with a trench coat over both, trying to pass for a mature adult — standing there, helpless, repeating those words to you in utter incomprehension. “Rabbit ears . . . with . . . aluminum . . . foil . . .”
“Sure loved me some high-flow showers and toilets!”
“Saw something good on TV once.”
Church keys
Thy took mine away – kept leaving bottle caps in the Sacristy…
Call for Phillip Morris.
More taste…less filling!
See the USA in your Chevrolet.
Show us your Lark!
LSMFT.
“You sound like a broken record” would not translate into digital if you never saw vinyl.
You talk a lot, were you vaccinated with a phonograph needle?
Lyrics from “Sylvia’s Mother” by Dr. Hook:
“And the operator says, ’40 cents more for the next 3 minutes, please’ “
Yes – there’s a bunch of those. Right off the top of my head:
Operator – Jim Croce
Memphis – Chuck Berry
Switchboard Susan – Nick Lowe
I’m sure Walrus could come up with enough for a Saturday Night Hootenanny
Hanging on the telephone.
Les probably would know them as well.
Sigh…
Related: I just happened to listen to “Santa Fe” by The Elvis Brothers this morning. I realized that 20 years from now no one will understand songs about getting busted for marijuana.
Ring around the collar