Words we no longer use

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by Ogre

Along that same line (bad pun) dose anyone use 'dial tone' anymore? I remember picking up the phone and listening for a dial tome before I dialed, but not anymore now that everyone uses cell phones.

there is still such a thing as a house phone though........You still need to do it if dialing a fax machine or calling somebody on a landline. Though I think it is useless for people like my family to have a house phone. We all have cell phones. My mom just doesn't ever answer it.

Originally Posted by 65_Xero_Huskie

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?)

One of the Firefighters in my deptartment was talking the other day about how his first car he ever owned had a handcrank, and how his one friend broke his wrist starting his own car, and about why the electric starter was placed onto almost every car being sold in the 30's. It was apparently a saftey device, using a hand crank can cause kickback once the engine was started.
Wikipedia seems to agree....http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_self_starter
Then they started talking about when gas was .17$ a gallon.

Originally Posted by mocat1530

Carbon copy - the true meaning of the "cc" found at the bottom of documents, from the time when the secretary (another word we no longer use as the person who provides the greatest assistance in an office) would place a sheet of carbon paper between two or more documents as they were typed, producing a duplicate.

You get a Carbon copy anytime you sign a reciept.......

-John