# In the dustbin of our cultural history **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703 "2020-12-10T00:57:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 160
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2020, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703/160 "2020-12-15T18:12:18Z")
Switching away from landline phones, here’s another current thread on a specific all-but dead bit of cultural history: > [@When did married women stop being addressed as Mrs. Husband'sFirstName Husband'sLastName?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-married-women-stop-being-addressed-as-mrs-husbandsfirstname-husbandslastname/928077): > > Inspired by a tangent in this thread, which I didn’t want to hijack further: [Worst Job Interview You Were the Inteviewer On - #131 by Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-job-interview-you-were-the-inteviewer-on/925607/131) There were a few other comments after that (post #105) about the practice, but it got me thinking. I knew (probably from books) this was an old-timey custom, but I’d never seen it in practice. But I do remember being weirded out by a scene in the movie The Wedding Singer, which was made in the '90s but set in the '80s, in which a woman about to be mar… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-dustbin-of-our-cultural-history/927703)._