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"Information" for "directory assistance". (Do we even have that anymore???)
It's funny, I was wondering that just the other day. With so many smartphones and access to the internet for information, I was wondering if the people who work as telephone operators or directory assistance really have much of a job anymore.
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Originally Posted by skippercollector
Do people still "dial" a telephone? Although I haven't actually used a phone with a dial in decades.
LOL! I don't think so. They don't even sell them anymore. My mom said years ago (years ago meaning the 1980s), when you'd go to set up your account with the telephone company, you didn't have to go out and buy a phone. You could just pick one out from the selection they had. My mom picked out a big red-orange dial phone. I remember that thing. We had it until I was five or six years old.
Speaking of the word "dial," another phrase that has gone out of style since I was kid was the very popular "Don't touch that dial!"
People on TV would often say that before the show went to commercial.
You are right about "Don't touch that dial" (We also don't have the National Anthem with pics of fighter planes etc....before the networks "sign off" for the night.
The older TVs, before remote control became standard, did have dials on them. They went from 2-13 with a setting for VHF and UHF. They all had tubes inside that would burn out and need replacement every now and then. We would remove all the tubes, taken them to the local store (ours was a Thrifty Drug) to test them in the tube tester and then purchase whichever one had burned out.
You are right about "Don't touch that dial" (We also don't have the National Anthem with pics of fighter planes etc....before the networks "sign off" for the night.
Remember this?
High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.
Pilot Officer Gillespie Magee
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941
My grandfather would say, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph," instead of swearing. I guess it wasn't considered taking the Lord's name in vain.
My mother would always tell us to make sure we had clean underwear on. In case something happened to you, you didn't want the undertaker to find you with dirty underwear.
My grandfather would say, "Jesus, Mary and Joseph," instead of swearing. I guess it wasn't considered taking the Lord's name in vain.
My mother would always tell us to make sure we had clean underwear on. In case something happened to you, you didn't want the undertaker to find you with dirty underwear.
I remember "cripes" used instead of "Christ"
and this: "For Pete's sake!"
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