Words we no longer use

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by John Gutmann

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.

LOL, we never answer our house line. You want to speak with us, call our cells.

You get a Carbon copy anytime you sign a reciept

Actually John, since people on this forum tend to be really picky (oh, you engineering-types), when you sign a receipt, you receive back a "carbonless copy" - it uses specially-designed carbonless paper.

And Art's "fallout shelter" made me remember our "air raid drills" back in elementary school - similar to "fire drills", we gathered in the windowless hallways of our school and crouched down with our hands over our heads. Not sure how effective that would have been, but that's what we did.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by John Gutmann

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

Interestingly enough, the paper that multi-copy receipts are printed on is called NCR Paper. Guess what NCR stands for? No Carbon Required. So officially they are not "Carbon" copies. Now for the purists, NCR also stands for the company which first developed the carbonless paper, National Cash Register, in Dayton Ohio.

oops - sorry John for the double wammy, I hadn't realized that Kathie had already commented on the carbonless paper!

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by mocat1530

Interestingly enough, the paper that multi-copy receipts are printed on is called NCR Paper. Guess what NCR stands for? No Carbon Required. So officially they are not "Carbon" copies. Now for the purists, NCR also stands for the company which first developed the carbonless paper, National Cash Register, in Dayton Ohio.

NCR is a trademark name for the paper. Carbonless is the generic name. Kinda like Kleenix vs tissue.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by GaryV1188

NCR is a trademark name for the paper. Carbonless is the generic name. Kinda like Kleenix vs tissue.

ooou! That could be a whole new thread! What items do we call by a brand name even if we are using a generic or competitor's version?

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

What happened to bacteriology?

Hey Elgin, ever hear Bobby Vinton's 'Sealed With A Kiss' ?
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/bobby-vin...th-a-kiss.html

That link doesn't work, I'll have to look it up later at home, but isn't he the "Blue Velvet" singer?

Originally Posted by Steve W

Elgin, can you explain why you have never heard of SWAK?

Umm.. idk Is it a Canadian term? Just kidding. I just had to "go there". LOL

And.. umm.. I don't send love letters through the mail I guess?

And don't get me wrong, I've def. heard the term before, but never really thought about it's origins, or that it actually meant something.


As far as the cologne debate, I think AXE body spray is in time responsible for the killing of that term. It's easier to spray yourself than dab some cologne on your hands and rub it on you.


And what about a party line? That's one you don't hear nowadays, and I personally never heard of it until I started reading some of Emily Dickinson's short stories in my college Literature class.

Similar to total phone (kinda.. I guess).

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Elgin Clock

That link doesn't work, I'll have to look it up later at home, but isn't he the "Blue Velvet" singer?

Elgin, I'm sorry the link doesn't work, it works for me...

Yes, he is the Blue Velvet guy.
Mushy.



and...yup, there is a song called Party Line by the Kinks
here's another link. haha
http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Kinks/Party-Line.html

[Alexa Stott]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Five and Dime: A convenience store where everything cost either 5¢ or 10¢. (Adjusted for inflation, 5¢ in the 1910's is about $1.00 today)

That made me think of how seldom used the cents sign is these days...It doesn't even appear on keyboards! Most people just type $0.xx when they're referring to cents.

Also, remember $2 bills? I know they're not *that* old, but I always liked them.

[EricH]

Art: If you ever go to South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the basement of their administration building (which also has a geology museum on the second floor) has/is a fallout shelter. And, you can still buy cassette decks if you know where to look. (Circuit City for one)

New word:

spaceball--upside-down roller mouse used for the same purpose as a mouse. The ball was just much bigger. Some still exist.

[John Wanninger]

Ethyl (gasoline with tetraethyl lead)
Reel-to-Reel (tape recorder)
Magic Eye (recording level tube, before v-u meters and led’s )
Nixie Tube (numeric neon display tube)
Discwasher (keep those records clean)
Dry Cell (usually a big carbon zinc battery with terminals)
Flashbulb (as well as Flashcube and Flipflash, before xenon strobes became cheap)
Hair Tonic (Vitalis anyone?)
Crew Wax (for a crew cut that will stand up to anything, before brylcream))
Rain Bonnet (those plastic pleated women's rain hoods)
Milk Chute (for the milkman)
Automat (restaurant where entire wall is a vending machine)
Hideaway Headlights (the cool 60’s cars had these)
Breaker Points (and Condensor) (change with every yearly tune-up)
Jarts ( fun but deadly lawn dart game)
Slide Projector (oh no, not more vacation pictures)
Cottered Crank (did your bike have one of these?)
Banana Seat (on your ‘Stingray’ bike)
Cheater Slick(also on your Stingray)
Clackers (two hard balls connected by strings)
Mood Ring
Uncandle (floating salad oil candle)
Close’nPlay (portable phonograph – distant relative to the walkman or ipod)
Give-a-show (projector)
Thingmaker (for making creepy crawlers)
Church Key (back when cans didn’t have pulltabs or poptops)
Trading Stamps (As a kid, a fun task was filling up stamp book with S & H green stamps)
Red Ball Jets (competition to PF Flyers)

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Alexa Stott

Also, remember $2 bills? I know they're not *that* old, but I always liked them.

They still make those, however they are not very common.

Once a few years ago, my grandparents went and paid for everything over the course of about a month with $2 bills, as a joke. More recently, they've found a new way to get their kicks: paying for everything with the new dollar coins.

[lukevanoort]

Originally Posted by John Wanninger

Cheater Slick(also on your Stingray)

The term 'Cheater slick' is still in relatively common usage though. Nowadays, it generally refers to tires that have DOT certification as street legal tires, yet have levels of grip that approach those of racing slicks. They are generally used for races that require 'street tires', and are not even remotely practical for driving around town.

[Cooley744]

"i fancy..." (basicly means to think or like)
automobile (most people say car)

I told my mom about this post and her comment was..." no body uses please and thankyou anymore!"

[Kyle]

Some networking trems:
Token ring
Daisy Chain

[whytheheckme]

Leaded Gasoline Only
Lead for mech. pencils (some people still call it this.... even though it's really graphite...)

[John Gutmann]

Originally Posted by Kyle

Some networking trems:
Token ring
Daisy Chain

I hear daisy chain all the time, but then again that is talking about shift registers. Did they have SSI when our mentors were kids [/sarcasm]

-John