tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post7512723758144900837..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Saying things that now no longer make senseBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-75447387314929038632017-03-18T07:26:02.882-07:002017-03-18T07:26:02.882-07:00Loose tea is better than bagged tea, IMO
And wile...Loose tea is better than bagged tea, IMO<br /><br />And wile I'll accept RECORD as a collection, I also think of ALBUM that way:<br />for music, a collection of songs <br />for photos, a collection of pictures<br />I use ALBUM all the time, and the format (LP, cassette, CD, MP3) is irrelevant. Roger Owen Greenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05298172138307632062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-22414749411301576642017-03-17T05:11:42.898-07:002017-03-17T05:11:42.898-07:00Needle drop.Needle drop.Dana Gabbardhttp://socata.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-38594804881584226452017-03-15T22:21:06.104-07:002017-03-15T22:21:06.104-07:00The Tonight Show starring Johnny CarsonThe Tonight Show starring Johnny CarsonRoger R.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-37503310884047345132017-03-15T14:31:05.657-07:002017-03-15T14:31:05.657-07:00I still say "put the phone back on the hook,&...I still say "put the phone back on the hook," when what I really mean is,"put the cordless phone back on the charger. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-18433209195946069722017-03-15T12:18:42.733-07:002017-03-15T12:18:42.733-07:00"Reading the tea leaves" ...how antiquat..."Reading the tea leaves" ...how antiquated is that?<br />Does ANYONE remember a time when tea wasn't in a bag?<br />Can you read the leaves and predict the future through the bag?<br />It's questions like these that made me a coffee drinker...Dave Wrighteoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10029257345313166383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-28914809228531137722017-03-15T11:55:43.163-07:002017-03-15T11:55:43.163-07:00In 1956 my parents bought a 1955 Zenith TV with fl...In 1956 my parents bought a 1955 Zenith TV with flash Matic remote control. Since we only had maybe four stations and the rest was snow and the resultant snow sound, and the remote control was light activated, it was important to close your curtains at night. When morning the TV came on, the volume turned all the way up, and it started changing channels rapidly but not rapidly enough that you missed the sound of the snow stations. After that my father disabled it. I've heard that a clicker is New England for remote control but I never heard that in my house. Probably because we never had a remote control after that first one. And the first remote control I ever had controlled my VCR which we used to change the channels on our television because my than husband and his mother had ruined the channel changing knob because they like to channel surf without a remote. When we got it set properly on one station we had to brace it up with a bunch of index cards under it, otherwise it would fall off the channel and just not come in good. So you set it to channel 3 and we used the VCR to change channels until we got a new TV<br /><br />One day my mother was visiting and using the VCR remote and she asked me how to turn up the volume. It took every ounce of self-control I had to be respectful and not say, Get up, walk across the room, turn the dial."<br />Since the commercials were always louder then the programs they were in, we learned to just change the channel when a commercial came on.<br /><br />Several months ago in an attempt to get our cable bill down, my roommate finally got a cable box and attached it to the TV in the living room. I am still box free but we don't know for how long. Our cable company was bought. Last night I was in the living room watching TV - I don't do that there - when the phone rang. It actually showed up on the television before it started ringing audibly. Anyway I thought it was pretty neat. They are going to drag me kicking and screaming into the decade before this one.<br />;-)Pamela Jayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06135379188588301400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-83295867768650058522017-03-15T09:28:52.830-07:002017-03-15T09:28:52.830-07:00The most important award in the music industry is ...The most important award in the music industry is the Grammy, short for gramophone (the British term for a phonograph -- they wisely decided against calling it the Phony). How many recipients even know what that is?Buttermilk Skyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07430011403223875192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-65804539720970612542017-03-15T07:16:42.316-07:002017-03-15T07:16:42.316-07:00We're not done with "flipside" just ...We're not done with "flipside" just yet; at least according to Norah Jones.<br /><br />https://youtu.be/TTy8iSdQMwMStoneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-5477949152351037672017-03-15T06:41:45.671-07:002017-03-15T06:41:45.671-07:00"And Butler's nickname, "the Iceman&..."And Butler's nickname, "the Iceman" (for his cool soul vocal style) itself is obsolete"<br /><br />Jerry Butler's nickname was based on his secondary profession: he studied cooking, restaurant management and ice sculpture as a fallback career in case music career failed him.<br /><br />Source: "Nowhere To Run The Story of Soul Music" by Gerri Hirshey.[Times Books, 1984]Kosmo13noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-76491114837074268792017-03-15T06:29:34.001-07:002017-03-15T06:29:34.001-07:00Don't feel bad about use of the word "tap...Don't feel bad about use of the word "tape" as being so "last century". Apparently, the use of tape for audio recordings will make a huge comeback in the 23rd century!<br /><br />https://youtu.be/7JWe3hCes1o?t=31Stoneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-5043230297681809492017-03-15T04:04:12.377-07:002017-03-15T04:04:12.377-07:00Tube isn't because of vacuum tubes, it's b...Tube isn't because of vacuum tubes, it's because of cathode ray tubes. So now it'd be 'Let's watch the panel" rather than "Let's watch the chip". Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-42345631119903171912017-03-15T03:50:49.603-07:002017-03-15T03:50:49.603-07:00In re "pre-recorded": Old-time radio sho...In re "pre-recorded": Old-time radio shows were mostly done live. Those that had been pre-recorded were introduced as "transcription features."<br /><br />The hectograph was the machine that made those wonderful-smelling copies with the purple ink. The more expensive mimeograph made copies with black ink, and they didn't smell like anything.thirteennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-78844575633595963872017-03-15T00:02:10.611-07:002017-03-15T00:02:10.611-07:00I remember a sitcom from the 80s or 90s, maybe Per...I remember a sitcom from the 80s or 90s, maybe Perfect Strangers, where leading into a commercial break one of the male leads said "Don't touch that dial" and the other said "People don't have dials anymore!", showing that dials have been moving toward obsolescence for a long time now.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483417885845331990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-78659026216531311422017-03-14T23:44:36.468-07:002017-03-14T23:44:36.468-07:00Unless heard in a period piece or re-runs of "...Unless heard in a period piece or re-runs of "Real Time," it's likely we'll never hear the telephone time lady say, "At the tone, the time will be..." ever again given that Bill Maher removed it from his new main title. I was disappointed. It's familiarity was somehow comforting, and it served a purpose in the introduction. I'm sure the younger generation(s) don't have a clue about its history which is probably why it was dropped. Now it's gone. Sigh.Lorimartiannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-73916928018062198012017-03-14T22:50:01.887-07:002017-03-14T22:50:01.887-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Keith Nicholshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04700768085010210020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12430731360954992632017-03-14T22:15:46.072-07:002017-03-14T22:15:46.072-07:00"I'm in the phone book." Does anyon..."I'm in the phone book." Does anyone use them anymore? Here, they give us about eight books for our house and we immediately recycle seven of them and never open the eighth.Breadbakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-29229156729647435712017-03-14T21:58:31.160-07:002017-03-14T21:58:31.160-07:00Many people say "Hot water heater" - hot...Many people say "Hot water heater" - hot water doesn't need any heating.<br /><br />I have a Chevy pickup from this millennium with crank windows and a vinyl floor. I bought it that way on purpose. I love it when I see people looking for the button. I get to say "Grab that handle and rotate in a COUNTER CLOCKWISE" direction to lower the window.Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00760229533287495672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-4180987890226903052017-03-14T19:31:08.194-07:002017-03-14T19:31:08.194-07:00"Clicker" still lives on as the name for..."Clicker" still lives on as the name for the thing that advances the slides when you're giving a Power Point presentation. I don't remember anyone calling the TV remote that though. Funny story, the first VCR my parents bought cost $800 and had a remote control -- that connected to it by a ten foot cable.<br /><br />The other day my 8 year old asked me when cell phones were invented. I mentioned that we used to have a car phone that plugged into the cigarette lighter, for emergencies. "Wait, WHAT?! Why would someone need a cigarette lighter in their car?"<br /><br />The obsolete term "car phone," of course, continues to exist in the name of the British company Carphone Warehouse.Ginger Geenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-57330831436764636582017-03-14T17:57:53.098-07:002017-03-14T17:57:53.098-07:00Cracker Jack prizes. It's still around and sti...Cracker Jack prizes. It's still around and still has prizes (miniature baseball cards, last time I looked), but it's not a go-to descriptor for cheap jewelry any more. <br /><br />Saturday Morning Cartoons. Extinct, except on the cable channels that run cartoons 24/7 anyway. Saturday Morning Cartoons, incidentally, helped kill the Saturday Matinee as a raucous weekly ritual.<br /><br />Kid show / horror movie hosts. Both reached a combined apotheosis in "Mystery Science Theater 3000". Now down to a comparative handful of mostly ironic holdouts.<br /><br />Comic books in grocery and drug stores instead of comic shops and bookstores. And costing 12¢ and 25¢.<br /><br /> DBensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01144515471557731622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-87960650247809450552017-03-14T17:29:32.093-07:002017-03-14T17:29:32.093-07:00Ken: What the Sam Hill are you doing bringing up a...Ken: What the Sam Hill are you doing bringing up antiquated expressions? Here’s one for you – when was the last time anyone “licked a stamp”? You peel ‘em off (if you even use the things anymore). Now doesn’t that beat all get out! Glenn Enoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-76171802013622693872017-03-14T17:14:31.934-07:002017-03-14T17:14:31.934-07:00I used to be a stickler about the difference betwe...I used to be a stickler about the difference between shows on tape and shows on film, but now everything is digital. You can give the same raw digital video a "tape look" or a "film look" just by changing a couple of equipment settings.<br /><br />I still see a lot of TV critics -- and even some hosts -- use "satellite" as a catch-all for any remote link on television, but most of them are no longer done by satellite.<br /><br />You could even argue that the term "live TV" is no longer accurate. In the analog days, signals moved in their entirety at the speed of light, so the picture went from the TV station to your home instantaneously. Now, the digital signal is first compressed on the transmission end, and then decompressed at your set, and there may also be some buffering to deal with an unreliable line. This causes a delay of anywhere from a few seconds to a minute depending on what kind of system you're using, meaning that you never actually see an event on TV at the exact moment it is happening in real life anymore.Andy Rosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-1864653579938053372017-03-14T16:45:04.958-07:002017-03-14T16:45:04.958-07:00Tin foil? I don't remember tin foil, even from...Tin foil? I don't remember tin foil, even from back in the 1950s. Did they use up all the tin in the 1940s war effort? Tin can for that matter, though some cans may still have a tin coating.Kaleberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283840743310507878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-87582826190122603522017-03-14T15:12:35.162-07:002017-03-14T15:12:35.162-07:00"“The tube” – a popular synonym for a televis...<i>"“The tube” – a popular synonym for a television. Once upon a time there were tubes in a TV set. No longer. I guess you could call it “the chip” but I don’t see that catching on."</i><br /><br />So you don't expect that "The Boob Tube" will ever become "The Dip Chip"?<br /><br />Let's see. no longer accurate expressions. I have one. We still say "We elected a president," when we don't, as our current Fuhrer who <i><b>LOST</b></i> the election by <i><b>THREE MILLION VOTES</b></i> clearly shows.D. McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-7342815989703227122017-03-14T14:40:39.591-07:002017-03-14T14:40:39.591-07:00To Matt:
I'll go you one better -- Jerry Butl...To Matt:<br /><br />I'll go you one better -- Jerry Butler's 1968 hit "Western Union Man" ("Send a telegram...to my baby"). These days, about the only thing you send via Western Union is <i>cash.</i> And Butler's nickname, "the Iceman" (for his cool soul vocal style) itself is obsolete.VP81955https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792390726196611188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-19510996537100291802017-03-14T14:10:05.389-07:002017-03-14T14:10:05.389-07:00The radio in my truck still has dials, and that...The radio in my truck still has dials, and that's the only place I ever listen to the radio. So for me, "don't touch that dial" still fits. BobinVThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06659467295097024979noreply@blogger.com