Phrases that will surely die out in the next 50 years ?

[Beebo]

[QUOTE 4890825, member: 45"]Way[/QUOTE]
No way, man.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Euthanasia is still illegal in the UK

 

[Beebo]

"God save our gracious queen".

That cant have too long to run.

It looks like we have 3 kings coming up, Charles, William, George, so that could be at least 90 years of kings.
The monarchy could be gone by then.

 

[Venod]

Could I have a first class rail ticket please.

 

[pawl]

We still use phrases from Shakespeare's day with out knowing the true meaning.
Some of these will last others won't.

A phase that will die out is "I am going to tape the film tonight" and "I going to fill the car up"

My brother in law (pompous git)always corrects me when I say I've taped a programme.

 

[jefmcg]

Dialled
Grammophone

 

[TVC]

Are you on any other cycling forums?

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I assume that most of us remain familiar with phrases from the war/national service, e.g.
'in civvies'
'AWOL'
'demob happy'

(Any others ?)

Some forces phrases pass into civilian popularity, some don't. Only about 20-30 years ago civilians said they were taking a week's holiday. Now almost everyone says they're going on leave / taking leave.

I'd say that "in civvies" and AWOL have jumped that same gap and are still used.

 

[Sandra6]

[QUOTE 4890825, member: 45"]Way[/QUOTE]

No way, man.

Beat me to it!
My brother used to have a friend called Way - although I doubt that's how it was spelt - and we never got tired of "Who's here?" "Way" "no way!"

I used the expression "bunny boiler" last week and had to explain to the 23yr old what it meant.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

"Fetch me my bowling balls, Wilma."

 

[downcast]

Maybe, just maybe "... and the winners are 'Ant and Dec'"

 

[gavroche]

When I was young, sometimes after finishing a meal, my parents used to say:
" That's another one the Germans won't get."
Recently, I tried it with the younger members of my family ( in France of course) and they asked me to explain what it meant. WW2 is so far away now that it is lost on the new generation.

 

[swee'pea99]

"I say, you absolute rotter!"

 

[Tim Hall]

Dialled
Grammophone

I was at a National Trust property a couple years ago where a room was set up as it was back in the 1920s. There was a phone from the period where you could dial 1 to hear what the gardener's day was like, 2 for the chauffeur's day etc. The 8 year old children I was with understood they had to lift the receiver but were flummoxed by "dial 1". (You put your finger where? And do what?)

Iain Banks touched on this in "Whit", where there is much talk of buttoning numbers.

 

[Ian H]

I'm reading PG Wodehouse at the moment.