busmatt
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It’s ages since I’ve heard anyone say “I should Cocoa”
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
- Thread starter KILO NOVEMBER
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busmatt
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Also, not many people say “Cherio” either
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KILO NOVEMBER
One Too Many
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MissMittens
One Too Many
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Dingus
informal : an often small article whose common name is unknown or forgotten
informal : an often small article whose common name is unknown or forgotten
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A "throng"/Pulk (of people).
Nobody says this in Germany, today.
Nobody says this in Germany, today.
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"You shall NOT hang the meat in the shopwindow, if the cow isn't for sale!"
Cheap girls with whale tale or summer décollete...
Cheap girls with whale tale or summer décollete...
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Yesterday I and 3 friends were heading out for a beer, a mock argument ensued about car seating arrangements.
I remarked to one that he was being 'persnickety' this day. It stopped him in his tracks as he had never heard that word...He asked what the hell it meant. After we explained its meaning I couldn't shut him up as he kept finding ways to use it in a sentence. We all remarked to him that it was a word rarely heard these days and now we would like to return to those bygone days.....at least for the rest of the day.
I remarked to one that he was being 'persnickety' this day. It stopped him in his tracks as he had never heard that word...He asked what the hell it meant. After we explained its meaning I couldn't shut him up as he kept finding ways to use it in a sentence. We all remarked to him that it was a word rarely heard these days and now we would like to return to those bygone days.....at least for the rest of the day.
LizzieMaine
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That's one of my favorite ways to describe certain people I have to deal with on a daily basis -- never satisfied with anything, always asking "to see the manager," never able to admit that they were in fact looking at a theatre website in Delaware instead of ours when I explain to them that there is in fact no show at 4:30 pm on a weekday. Such ones, whom we have in overabundance in my little town, are way too persnickety for their own good.
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In old Germany, we would (if the situation allows...) say:
"Do you know our website?
Who's able to read, this one is clearly having the advantage."
ChiTownScion
Call Me a Cab
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No wonder, nobody really wants to works in hospital, these days.
The staff is working on the codex "Don't BEEP the company!"
But now, the "audience" BEEP you... .
People with "fully-comprehensive mentality" I hate the most! And Germany is full of them!
The staff is working on the codex "Don't BEEP the company!"
But now, the "audience" BEEP you... .
People with "fully-comprehensive mentality" I hate the most!
And Germany is full of them!
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Channel 3/4 or LINE has been moved to SOURCE INPUT.
Of course then it becomes a matter of how well you’ve labeled things.
I’ve been trying to repair this old Philco Predicta and the converter box still instructs to select the Channel 3 or 4 so the set can understand the signal.
Of course then it becomes a matter of how well you’ve labeled things.
I’ve been trying to repair this old Philco Predicta and the converter box still instructs to select the Channel 3 or 4 so the set can understand the signal.
LizzieMaine
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"Shut up, I'm on long distance!" (Accompanied by swatting hand gesture, as if to shoo away the interfering party)
Omg...my childhood...Lol
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Internet? Rewind? Ha! We hadn't even been to the moon yet. Who else here had to make do with only seven channels on a black and white tv?
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Playing LEGO, before 28,8K/56K internet appeared.
ChrisB
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Internet? Rewind? Ha! We hadn't even been to the moon yet. Who else here had to make do with only seven channels on a black and white tv?
We had only 3!
LizzieMaine
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And one of them only signed on at 5 in the afternoon.
Just Jim
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Worked a summer at a ranch in the Nebraska Sandhills. On a really "good" day, we got snowy reception of a station that played vintage episodes of "Grand Ole Opry". Good thing I wasn't much of a TV fan.
