# Things no one said in 1975 **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 28, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434 "2025-07-28T17:32:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/21 "2025-07-28T18:12:35Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > (non-technological example:) > > “We must pay any price, bear any burden to contain global communism”. ? I’m not sure who, if anyone famous, actually said that, but it certainly sounds like something Richard Nixon might have said in the 70s or even the 60s or 50s, although probably not in 1975 in particular, unless he was reading some of his old speeches. For a non-technological example, I’d go with “I just got over the rona, so I don’t need to social distance anymore”. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/22 "2025-07-28T18:14:23Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > I’m not sure who, if anyone famous, actually said that, but it certainly sounds like something Richard Nixon might have said in the 70s Kennedy, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/23 "2025-07-28T18:14:29Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > U.S. President Donald Trump. President Ronald Reagan. > **Doc Brown** : Tell me, Future Boy, who’s President of the United States in 1985? > > **Marty** : Ronald Reagan. > > **Doc Brown** : Ronald Reagan! The actor? Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis? I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/24 "2025-07-28T18:17:56Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > President Ronald Reagan. I considered adding that one, as well, but in 1975, Reagan had been a two-term governor of California, and declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination that November. So, I imagine that there were people in '75 who were at least strongly thinking and wishing for him to be President, even if he hadn’t actually held the title yet. (He barely failed to get the nomination '76, losing to Gerald Ford in a contested Republican National Convention.) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/25 "2025-07-28T18:21:07Z")
“We’re years away from self-driving cars” I think in the 70s there was still much magical thinking. People must of thought by 2025 even flying cars were a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/26 "2025-07-28T18:27:05Z")
I’m going to the Czech Republic for vacation ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/27 "2025-07-28T18:27:31Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > > [@Lumpy](#): > > > > (non-technological example:) > > > > “We must pay any price, bear any burden to contain global communism”. > > ? It’s a paraphrase of part of line from a famous Kennedy speech, pre-Vietnam War. By 1975 let’s just say that it had reached its expiration date. ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/28 "2025-07-28T18:31:58Z")
“I’ll have that burger on a gluten-free bun” No 17 year old ever said: “No, Dad, I don’t want a driver’s license” And nobody who was a bit older ever said: “Yeah, I’ll be the designated driver tonight” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/29 "2025-07-28T18:35:44Z")
“My cousin married his boyfriend last week.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/30 "2025-07-28T18:36:30Z")
> [@chappachula](#): > > "No, Dad, I don’t want a driver’s license” Not only did my daughter tell me that (not in '75 obviously), she passed on me giving her my compact SUV. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/31 "2025-07-28T18:36:56Z")
May the Force be with you. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/32 "2025-07-28T18:40:09Z")
What’s your favorite emoji, LOL? ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/33 "2025-07-28T18:41:47Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Not only did my daughter tell me that (not in '75 obviously), When did she tell you this? In 1975, I had just graduated high school, and every single person I knew had earned their driver’s license as soon at they turned 16. There were a couple hundred kids in my school, and the only one or two who didn’t drive were either very poor, or had family problems…but they definitely wanted their license. ---
**Author:** ![dougrb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@dougrb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougrb)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/34 "2025-07-28T19:05:45Z")
I’m going to the store… need any weed? ---
**Author:** ![CairoCarol](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cairocarol/32/3825_2.png) [@CairoCarol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CairoCarol)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/35 "2025-07-28T19:06:23Z")
His husband’s office is so old-fashioned, they still have a fax machine! ---
**Author:** ![J-P\_L](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/j-p_l/32/3156_2.png) [@J-P\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J-P_L)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/36 "2025-07-28T19:09:56Z")
The Internet is down again! ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/37 "2025-07-28T19:15:28Z")
What’s your wifi password? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/38 "2025-07-28T19:19:13Z")
> [@dougrb](#): > > I’m going to the store… need any weed? I’m sure plenty of people said that in 1975; they just didn’t dispense with the _sotto voce_ on the last part. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/39 "2025-07-28T19:25:48Z")
I don’t think Elvis has ever looked so fit and healthy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/40 "2025-07-28T19:28:07Z")
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