We’re moving and we were sorting through boxes of wires, cables and assorted electronic detritus. We were tossing some, but most we were boxing up to take to Joe the part guy who recycles and parts out computer and electronic stuff. Old modem… donate, a mouse with a non usb port..donate… rabbtt ears…
big larfs We did put it in the donate bin, though I have no clue if Joe the part guy will have any use…
Stewie on “Family Guy” says that. In fact when I read your post I heard his voice in my head. 
“Gag me with a spoon” - or “pitchfork”, or whatever else we made up at the time
“Radical” for when something was cool
When I was little my dad used to jokingly call me a “reprobate”.
I don’t think anybody talks about a “modem” anymore - all the Internetz are on high-speed cable now and the modems are built-in to the computers.
People do still say “cable modem” to refer to the access point device (with or without router) that the home network plugs into.
Now you’re cookin’ with gas!
Well, latecomer to the party here but reading this thread made me realize one very profound truth…
I am old!!!
Anyway, “back in my day you young whippersnappers…”
People used to smoke grass. They’d roll it up in papers as a cigarette called a “doobie.” (There’s even an old rock & roll band named the Doobie Brothers that your grandparents were fans of.)
If you thought something was really great, you’d exclaim “Awesome!” or say it was “intense!”
Valley Girls were trendy girls in the early 80s. They would often substitute “tres” for very in speech (tres is the french word for “very.”) ex: “I am, like, tres smart!”
Someone who talked non-stop was a “motormouth.”
Teenagers sorely lacking in social graces were typically (insultingly) called a “spaz.”
If you wore a sweater wrapped around your neck (arms tied together in front), then you were a “preppy.”
If you wore a black leather jacket, listened to Judas Priest and smoked grass behind the bleachers during gym class, you were a “head.”
If you suspected a guy of being homosexual, you called him a “bufu” (butt fucker.)
Back in my day they were “Metalheads” or “Metallers”. A jean jacket could also be worn in warmer weather. Quarter-cut sleeve shirts, black with white sleeves or vice-versa, with any given Metal band (Iron Maiden, KISS, Def Leppard, etc.) were also worn by such Metallers.
The females wore their hair “feathered”. You don’t hear that term anymore…
Yes, which is why I wouldn’t let my students use it. I didn’t tell them the reason, of course, but would just tell them to ask their parents what it meant.
I do realize that the parents now are young enough to not know!
For some reason it just dawned on me to look up Beat Cancel. For those who’ve never heard of it, it was on tape decks or boom boxes (also out of fashion).
Anyway, I never understood what the switch was for* but after looking it up I realized that as obsolete as tape decks have become, I think that beat cancel switches became obsolete a while ago before that.
*From what I read it cancels out whistling and some clicking that can occur if you record from an AM station.
“Say …” or “Say there …” preceding any question.
My father calls auto dealerships “agencies”. It turns out it’s a very old term, maybe last commonly used in the 1940s.
“Heads” around my neck of the woods were also “groders” and “heshers”. There’s still quite a few of them around, fuckin’ a right! Which reminds me … is “fucking a” falling out of favor yet?
Addressing young men as “Master”.
“Inflammable” with the same meaning as “flammable”.
Hardly anybody gets called a pathetic peripatetic anymore!
I never knew this! That casts these lyrics from the song “Valley Girl” in a little different light:
*“Like my English teacher
He’s like…
He’s like Mr. BU-FU
We’re talking Lord God King BU-FU”
*
I have learned something.
When I hear the term “cross” (which I admit, isn’t often), I always think of Lucy Van Pelt. I have no idea why. 
When my dog misbehaves, I call her an incorrigible miscreant.
I say it with love, though.
A few years ago I had a thread where I asked if Brits still said “cheerio” (and some other terms as well) and I got back joke answers about it only being said if talking about the cereal. So add that one to the list.
Bugger.
Oh yeah, and Lucy’s a fussbudget! How often do you hear THAT nowadays?
And do the Brits still tell people to sod off?
I don’t know, Baldrick.
I always saw and heard it as Grody/Grodie…
(upon finding a skin mag in the forest with friends when young, one kid always had to say: “EWWWWWWW! GRODY!!!”)
UD has it as grody.
Your FIL is with it. 