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

[MichaelW2]

'What, you mean to talk to someone you had to be connected to the wall by a wire?'"

When you had to know where some was before you could call them.

 

[Drago]

"I'm after a new mobile phone, a nice dumb phone please."

That phrase will die out with the passing of me and Accy.

 

[Tim Hall]

"Can you tell me how to get to Carnegy Hall"

Diesel.

No, I think you'll find the accepted answer is "practice".

 

[raleighnut]

"I'm after a new mobile phone, a nice dumb phone please."

That phrase will die out with the passing of me and Accy.

Oi you're not the only ones.

 

[Chris S]

My mate recently used the term Glory Hole (Cupboard where you store miscellaneous junk) and couldnt understand why all the youngsters where staring at him in shock

Probably because the modern meaning is a hole in a wall used for voyeurism!

 

[Arjimlad]

I have to dictate letters etc at work and still say "end of tape" even though it is a digital file sent over the IT system.

 

[jefmcg]

Probably because the modern meaning is a hole in a wall used for voyeurism!

That's the very genteel end of the modern usage.

 

[swee'pea99]

That's the very genteel end of the modern usage.

Time gennlemen please.

 

[Tim Hall]

I have to dictate letters etc at work and still say "end of tape" even though it is a digital file sent over the IT system.

My aunt worked at Bletchley Park during the war. This may have accounted for her habit of saying "end of message" at the end of voicemails.

 

[jefmcg]

Sometime in the future, there is going to be a "Did you know?" documentary produced with dialogue something like this:

"The reason we 'tape' or 'film' when making a movie is that once upon a time they used actual celluloid film and, later, magnetic tape to record the images.

"And the reason we call the computers in our pockets 'phones' is because that is short for 'telephone', which means 'distance voice' in Greek and originally the primary use of these computers was for voice calls'"

 

[Lozz360]

Lib-Dem Prime Minister.

That's never been a phrase.

 

[Aravis]

Not to worry.

 

[MontyVeda]

Anyone still call trousers "slacks" ?

Seemed quite common when I was a kid but I haven't heard it for decades.

 

[Tim Hall]

[QUOTE 4894838, member: 259"]We used to call ours kecks. Except when they were cool ones like Sta Press.[/QUOTE]
Sta Prest, Shirley?

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 4894838, member: 259"]We used to call ours kecks. Except when they were cool ones like Sta Press.[/QUOTE]
we used to say under-kecks a lot