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What?!? I'm not allowed to call it "tin foil" anymore? Just 'cause it isn't tin, doesn't mean I don't call it that! It's way easier to say than Al-u-min-eee-um! :p And we still have mercury thermometers - and a spill clean-up process in case one breaks!

On another note - I think this thread needs to go away! It is making me feel very very very old! :(

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library paste - an edible white thick paste (not like the white glue we use today) with a stiff brush that went through the cap. It was edible. Well, maybe not, but we all ate it anyway.
typewriter ball - used in a Selectric IBM typewriter, it moved across the page as you typed, and contained the letter characters. To change fonts, you put in a different ball.
word processor - a standalone machine dedicated to word processing.

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Roller Skate keys
PF Flyers
Pen Pals
Spark Gap Transmitters! Don you're killing me!

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CRT Monitors. They are going away faster and faster ... not extinct yet...
Goodbye - I can't remember the last time I heard that phrase. I think "adios" or "later" has become replaced goodbye.

On another note, when I have documents with small boxes to fill in, I pull out my father's typewriter from the 1800s and blow some dust off, and get to typing. I always enjoyed the half key because it made my paper look less cluttered in certain areas and it bugs me that there is no half space key on my keyboard sometimes.

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USSR
The British Empire
Persia
Siam
Constantinople
DUAT
Bacteriology
Leaded Gasoline
McDLT (keeps the hot side hot, and the cold side cold)
Hot wax - radio personality term for music so popular, with so much airplay, it would melt the records

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SWAK (sealed with a kiss), in reference to how a letter envelope was "sealed"
sealing wax (often used on my letters when I sent them to my pen pals!)

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But i hear swak all the time.

Hand Crank - Used to Start old cars (Model T. Which surprisinly could run on ethanol....And it took how long to make cars that run on ethanol?)

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Oops, it probably IS still being used, in IMs and text messages, huh? I was just thinking of ancient times when I and others actually hand-scribed letters on stationery to people that we put into the mailbox. Hmm.. stationery - still used, but on its way out?

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This one is still used, by making a come-back just this year actually in pop culture:

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.n...25720700134707


I have never heard the term "SWAK" in my life before btw.. lol

I learned something new today. w00t!

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Wow, between sniffing the purple paper and eating the paste, its amazing that we are still alive! :ahh:

As long as there are little girls, there will be pen pals, and stationery which as been SWAK. As a matter of fact, I just bought two boxes of stationery last night for my "big" girls, my daughter and our foreign exchange student. They have promised to send each other "real" mail, because they know that e-mail just isn't the same!

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That's Istanbul, not Constantinople. ;)
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cologne

and it is such a fun word to say and to spell.

Edit: You dotted your stationary with cologne before you put it in the envelope and SWAK'd. Yup. Can't do that with email. Nope.

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Uhm, I use cologne every day (i also wear it)

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Say it like a real German: Köln....

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No offense, but a lot of these words are either still used or were only made obsolete recently. I'm 17 and I know/remember/have a lot of these things.