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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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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.
To: harpygoddess
All depends on who’s ox is getting gored.
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05/05/2016 5:06:02 AM PDT
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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.
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:06:32 AM PDT
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Ueriah
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:07:13 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:08:55 AM PDT
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Chickensoup
(Leftist totalitarian governments are the biggest killer of citizens in the world.)
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!”
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:09:54 AM PDT
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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.
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:13:50 AM PDT
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WildHighlander57
((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
To: harpygoddess
Standing Head (headline)
from the time of typsetting newspapers
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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.
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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: Ueriah
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:17:38 AM PDT
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wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: harpygoddess
Films, movies, to “tape” something.
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05/05/2016 5:18:31 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
To: wally_bert
It’s 10PM do you know where your children are!
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05/05/2016 5:18:34 AM PDT
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angcat
(TRUMP!)
To: harpygoddess
Some snitch dropped a dime on me.
To: harpygoddess
“The milk man”
Milk used to be delivered to your front door.
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05/05/2016 5:20:18 AM PDT
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Ditter
(God Bless Texas!)
To: harpygoddess
The Sprint Store calls my hand me down, 4 yr old smart phones obsolete old tech.
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05/05/2016 5:22:16 AM PDT
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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.
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05/05/2016 5:24:10 AM PDT
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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.
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05/05/2016 5:25:37 AM PDT
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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.
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:27:34 AM PDT
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katana
To: harpygoddess
World ends. Film at 11:00.
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posted on
05/05/2016 5:27:39 AM PDT
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central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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