It was KRESS-keez, where I’m from.
In the Kohouse ‘skip the needle over a little’ has not fallen out of fashion and continues to mean stop nagging.
I remember that now! When we got our first computer I had to decide between an IBM or an IBM compatible. I was worried about the quality of a generic, so we got the IBM.
Inflation turned dime stores into dollar stores.
Every time I see the Norwegian newspaper *Dagbladet *cited, I hear Jed Clampett cursing.
I never hear anybody say they’re “cross” when annoyed anymore.
I’d forgotten about that!
Although I loved computers, I didn’t know much about them at the time and didn’t know how an IBM compatible would compare to my Commodore 64, which I thought was probably superior :smack:.
Anyway, when I was a kid, there was doll called Dapper Dan (link to a modern day version).
I thought it was a funny name, but never realized till years later that dapper meant neat in appearance. I’ll bet even by the 80’s that term was pretty much out of fashion.
We had an S.S. Kresge at the nearby mall. we pronounced it KREZ-ghee. You sometimes said KREZ-ghees, as if it was the store belonging to Mr. Kresge. As noted above, it became K-Mart. The Kresge from my local mall is long gone, but there’s a K-Mart down the road.
And MIT has a Kresge Auditorium.
And a Kresge Chapel, just across the oval.
Oh yeah, very interesting looking building. I’ve never gone in. But I practically lived at the student center some years.
You don’t hear the word “flibbertigibbet” very much anymore. I’m not sure it was ever actually in fashion, though.
Or “IBM clones”, or just “clones”.
I still use it all the time, when I’ve already sent an email and then think of something else I should have included.
I say “dagnabbit” all the time, when I want to say “goddamn it” but the kids are around. I might have got it from Yosemite Sam.
How can you not have gone in? Even if you didn’t attend religious services, I had a friend get married there, attended a memorial, and a performance of part of Equus there.
The interior is as interesting as the exterior, with slits blow reflecting light from the moat outside onto the interior walls, which undulate. Behind the multipurpose multifaith altar is a sorta sculpture of gold wires with attached gold thingamajigs that get more numerous the lower down the are, giving the sense of something descending from the skylight above.
I have rabbit ears sitting behind and above my computer monitors at work. When people ask about them, I just say it’s for high definition wireless access to the Internet.
They believe that and want to know how to set it up for themselves, I kid you not.
In several old sci-fi book, “stereo” meant something like “3-D” or “holographic.”
Dunno. Does anyone use the phrase “jet set”?
It used to be “letterbox” vs. “pan-and-scan.”
Those 3.5 inchers were called “floppy disks,” which was a holdover from the 5.25 inch disks which really were “floppy.” :smack:
I still use this on occasion! 
Are children still told not to dawdle?
Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Well, considering that kids aren’t allowed to walk to & from school on their own anymore, I’m assuming they’re not told to not “dilly-dally” either.
I never really had a reason to. But this sculpture makes me want to get off the bus, so maybe that’ll be my excuse to check out the chapel.