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Old 02-19-2011, 02:51 PM   #1
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Things that are archaic

phone booths

I was watching a movie it had phone booths in it in Manhattan. There are no phone booths there that I recall....
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:07 PM   #2
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I asked a friend's sixteen year old daughter if she had ever used a 'pay phone'. I had to explain what a pay phone was.


Archaic also rans:

rotary dial phone
film camera
"little black book"
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:09 PM   #3
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knobs (like on a TV or radio, nothing has knobs anymore)

Also archaic, the phrase: "Don't touch that dial..."
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:11 PM   #4
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It's even rare to see payphones anymore. Where does Superman go to change these days?

We're a bit short on honest-to-goodness video arcades (not just a corner of the movie theater or a theme restaurant).
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:13 PM   #5
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phone booths

I was watching a movie it had phone booths in it in Manhattan. There are no phone booths there that I recall....
There are quasi phone booths in GCT, I think they only take cards or can make collect calls. I'll ask Mrs. Foot, she told me about them.
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:27 PM   #6
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It just occurred to me that we may have lost phone booths because Americans have become too fat to comfortably fit in them?
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:38 PM   #7
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Heck, you can hardly find a pay phone of any sort around here, let alone one in a phone booth. I blame the ubiquitous cell phone. Also, is this just my small town or are those big mail drop boxes disappearing elsewhere, too?
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Old 02-19-2011, 03:48 PM   #8
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Night watchmen.

It's all done with video and cameras now.

elevator operator.
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Old 02-19-2011, 05:53 PM   #9
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Night watchmen.



guilty pleasure song for me.

I LIKE it.... so fuck you. I slip from shadow to shaaaa ha dooow
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Old 12-28-2011, 07:07 PM   #10
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Cash registers that do NOT calculate the change

Typewriters that type on paper (and carbon paper and white out)

Slide rules - straight and circular

One-man Post Offices

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Old 12-28-2011, 09:13 PM   #11
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Sears Roebuck
Soon enough. They're closing over 100 stores.
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Old 12-29-2011, 02:47 AM   #12
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...One-man Post Offices...
Post offices in general, soon.

They're closing a huge one in Bowling Green, KY.
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Old 12-29-2011, 08:55 AM   #13
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Writing a letter by hand, putting into an envelope, licking a stamp and sending it off in the mail has become seriously archaic. ...
Which probably explains ...
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Post offices in general, soon.
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Old 02-19-2011, 07:02 PM   #14
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elevator operator.
and table cleaners at Horn and Hardart...

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Old 02-19-2011, 07:03 PM   #15
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and table cleaners at Horn and Hardart...

not to mention the change girls.
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