Things that are archaic - Page 2

Undertoad · 02-19-2011, 03:56 PM

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

glatt · 02-19-2011, 04:36 PM

There are payphones at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. My kids had never seen them before. I called them on my cell phone so they could use one.

Dot matrix printer paper. My wife was volunteering at the elementary school the other day, and the librarian had her separating the sheets of old dot matrix paper so kids could draw on them.

wolf · 02-19-2011, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

Don't they have the laugh-track people who made Dick van Dyke more amusing since we weren't sure where the funny parts in the show were laughing at jokes on current sitcoms? Those sound effects guys hold on to stuff forever.

jimhelm · 02-19-2011, 05:56 PM

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Don't they have the laugh-track people who made Dick van Dyke more amusing since we weren't sure where the funny parts in the show were laughing at jokes on current sitcoms?

is it me? I can't parse this, meow. You been hanging out with tw?

wolf · 02-19-2011, 06:05 PM

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is it me? I can't parse this, meow. You been hanging out with tw?

Just take a deep breath and try again ... laughtracks. Archaic. Still using the same recorded giggles as I Love Lucy. Now, look at UT's comment about turntable pop and hiss.

Undertoad · 03-04-2011, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

As asked by the NT Times.

Then there’s the record-scratch sound, still used frequently in ads and comic scenes to indicate someone’s train of thought going off the rails. Isn’t it weird that we still use that sound? For the most part, the last 20 years’ worth of viewers and listeners have never even heard that sound in real life! (In a 2008 NPR segment, the host asked some teenagers if they could identify the sound. They couldn’t. “I have no idea…. I know I saw it on TV.”)

Rhianne · 02-19-2011, 05:16 PM

I live in a small village and we still have the call box that was around when I was a kid. It used to be that the teenagers hung around scaring away the old folk who wanted to use it but now thanks to mobiles the coffin-dodgers get free run.

monster · 02-19-2011, 05:46 PM

Cassettes and cassette players; records and record players

monster · 02-19-2011, 05:49 PM

Does anyone still use dial-up internet?

Perry Winkle · 02-19-2011, 06:37 PM

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Does anyone still use dial-up internet?

Millions of people do.

Nirvana · 02-19-2011, 08:59 PM

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Does anyone still use dial-up internet?

The phone lines in my area only support dial-up Don't be hatin'

Aliantha · 02-19-2011, 05:57 PM

We still have plenty of pay phones here. Probably not as many as there used to be, but still plenty about.

Archaic are cars without power steering over here. The only one I know of that's still registered for the road is my fathers '76 land cruiser.

monster · 02-19-2011, 06:15 PM

Do kids still plaster their walls with posters of their idols? Mine don't... but they could just be weird.

footfootfoot · 02-19-2011, 07:04 PM

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Do kids still plaster their walls with posters of their idols? Mine don't... but they could just be weird.

Denial. Not just a river in Africa...

glatt · 02-19-2011, 07:29 PM

Our car doesn't have power windows. It's funny when we give rides to other kids. Some of them can't figure out how to roll down the window. They have to ask one of our kids how to do it.

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monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Cassettes and cassette players; records and record players __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-19-2011, 05:49 PM	#9
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Does anyone still use dial-up internet? __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-19-2011, 05:57 PM	#12
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	We still have plenty of pay phones here. Probably not as many as there used to be, but still plenty about. Archaic are cars without power steering over here. The only one I know of that's still registered for the road is my fathers '76 land cruiser. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-19-2011, 06:15 PM	#13
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Do kids still plaster their walls with posters of their idols? Mine don't... but they could just be weird. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

02-19-2011, 03:56 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

02-19-2011, 04:36 PM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	There are payphones at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. My kids had never seen them before. I called them on my cell phone so they could use one. Dot matrix printer paper. My wife was volunteering at the elementary school the other day, and the librarian had her separating the sheets of old dot matrix paper so kids could draw on them.

02-19-2011, 05:16 PM	#7
Rhianne Nearly done. Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Teetering on the edge. Posts: 1,134	I live in a small village and we still have the call box that was around when I was a kid. It used to be that the teenagers hung around scaring away the old folk who wanted to use it but now thanks to mobiles the coffin-dodgers get free run.

02-19-2011, 07:29 PM	#15
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Our car doesn't have power windows. It's funny when we give rides to other kids. Some of them can't figure out how to roll down the window. They have to ask one of our kids how to do it.

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