What terms or phrases haven’t you heard in awhile that are in desperate need of saving? (speaking as a buggy whip manufacturer)
Examples include:
-phone numbers with a location in them. (KL5-1212)
-Gag me with a [spoon | chainsaw | metal instrument of choice]
-Ya can’t rollerskate in a buffalo herd (a doo wakka doo wakka doo)
-10-4 good buddy
-Now you’re cookin’ with heat!
“What’s so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?” --Elvis Costello
You can’t reach him, he’s on the road.
It’s none of the government’s business.
Calling a TV remote a clicker. People born before, oh roughly, 1980 never heard of them (from my experience.)
The word “baud”.
Teletype and/or typewriter noises in the background of radio commercials or news reports. It’s a real meaty noise, not this wimpy click-click-click I hear from the surrounding cubicles all day.
Strangely enough that line is now in the Perfect Circle new album playing in my car this moning.
Lost but not forgotten …
By Jove.
By jingo.
A finger of fudge is just enough to give the kids a treat.
I remember sneezing and changing my grandparent’s television. (with the clicker)
Ew!
As a born-again Linguist, I feel obligated to dispense the priceless advice love the meme, hate the fucking word “meme”.
HOW did this word blow up here so fast?!
I always heard “NOW you’re cooking with gas!”
What phrase would YOU use to describe the travel of a concept through a society?
Uncle Bill: Yup, sorry bout that.
“Boot from floppy”
“ATDT *70,5155551212”