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

[Mugshot]

There is a queue you know.

.I think that has already gone out of the window.

You should have seen me in Scarborough this summer.The Scar-Filey bus is once an hour.Closer to it coming more and more people crowded around the shelter.There were four elderly people who looked a bit nervous at the crush,well 6' 4" large build Postman became a blocker at the mouth of the shelter and NOBODY was getting on before these four old souls.It worked and nobody said a word.

It wasn't until I reached the very end of your post that I realised that your opening sentence wasn't referring to the post directly above yours

 

[Tin Pot]

"You can do this!"
"Like, not even."
"r u ok hun"

 

[Electric_Andy]

"I'll look in the Yellow Pages" - Although I must confess to not having looked in one for a very long time.

I think they've just printed the last ones recently. It's all going to be online now. Whatever that means

 

[cyberknight]

1. Not sure how that is relevant
2. Pretty sure he was bi. Not giving up my fantasy of getting in this man-sandwich

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Not according to Wikipedia
Lived with Randolph Scott when he moved to Hollywood but all stories were rumours or Chinese Whispers that were taken to be real,he sued Chevy chase for slander in 1980

 

[Drago]

"I remember before Farage was PM..."

 

[craigwend]

Has Accy started another new thread?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

My current bedtime book reminded me of the verb 'to Gestetner', a phrase I haven't heard for over 20 years. I remember producing my cycling club's handbook with the aid of such a device, back in the day.

 

[Dirk]

"Have you got a Woods valve?"

This phrase has apparently disappeared from common parlance, judging by the reaction I've had from 3 local cycle shops this morning.

 

[midlife]

Our "Duplicator" was a Gestetner, purple ink with an addictive smell

 

[pawl]

I wonder what the next polite word for toilet will be. Each polite euphemism becomes dirty and is replaced (eg toilet, lavatory). I am sure wash room and bathroom will soon generate snickers, and we will have to find a new word.

We already have that chocolate confection called Snickers.

 

[pawl]

One to describe a winters day There’s more runny noses about than straw hats

 

[All uphill]

"I'm just going to post a letter"

My adult son called me to ask where on the envelope you put the stamp! Top left, bottom right?

 

[Threevok]

"I'm just going to post a letter"

My adult son called me to ask where on the envelope you put the stamp! Top left, bottom right?

Personally (working for a mailing company) I can tell you that practice isn't dead yet - at least at the business level

One practice very much in decline is the Reader Reply Panel - where you request brochures, by returning adverts in magazines or newspapers.

As a database programmer, this was my bread and butter for many years. These days it's all but dead

 

[Brains]

'Turn' off the light.
It's been the best part of a century since people 'turned' off oil or gas lamps.

Will 'switch' off the light totally replace it ?

 

[Brains]

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