# 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:** 4
**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 29, 2025, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/61 "2025-07-29T00:26:23Z")
Where’s the beef? ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/62 "2025-07-29T00:32:03Z")
I’ll have a diet coke. (it was launched in 1982) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/63 "2025-07-29T00:41:04Z")
“You play the guitar on the MTV” ---
**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 29, 2025, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/64 "2025-07-29T00:51:27Z")
> [@Jegpeg](#): > > I’ll have a diet coke. (it was launched in 1982) In 1975 it would have been a [Tab](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_(drink)). In 1955 no diner would let an out of towner put his meal on a tab. ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/65 "2025-07-29T00:54:33Z")
Don’t worry. We’ll just catch an Uber. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/66 "2025-07-29T01:01:44Z")
Acid is groovy, Kill the pigs. ---
**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 29, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/67 "2025-07-29T01:21:57Z")
Technically true. But I bet no one in 1975 called out, to an empty room, phrases such as, “Siri, what does 7 ounces of butter weigh in grams?” and the like. Though I suppose we can’t be 100% sure. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/68 "2025-07-29T01:33:30Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I’m sure plenty of people said that in 1975; they just didn’t dispense with the _sotto voce_ on the last part. Well, and in places like CA, they they don’t say “weed,” they say “sativa,” or “indica.” Or you might offer to buy “edibles,” not weed. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/69 "2025-07-29T01:41:55Z")
“Dammit, my bank is down, and I can’t get DoorDash, after I spent 20 minutes figuring out my order!” Genuine whine heard in my presence a couple of months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/70 "2025-07-29T01:52:47Z")
Graduated in 1974 and had no interest in learning to drive. Finally did so I could take my turn driving the gang around. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/71 "2025-07-29T02:16:59Z")
I need to get my car smogged. ---
**Author:** ![pirviii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pirviii/32/3233_2.png) [@pirviii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pirviii)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/72 "2025-07-29T02:53:58Z")
That picture is AI slop, look at the six fingers and three legs. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/73 "2025-07-29T03:00:54Z")
“tlhIngan Hol vISaH” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/74 "2025-07-29T03:53:00Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I have over a million followers Sun Myung Moon was probably saying that around 1975. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/75 "2025-07-29T03:55:36Z")
“South Vietnam is falling? We should send American troops in to help.” I guarantee nobody was saying that in 1975. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/76 "2025-07-29T04:30:16Z")
errata: > [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I guarantee nobody (in the USA) was saying that in 1975. ---
**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 29, 2025, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/77 "2025-07-29T05:32:20Z")
My email was hacked, just delete it if you get a message saying I’m in trouble and need money. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/78 "2025-07-29T05:56:04Z")
“Next week, I’ll be flying from New York to Singapore for business. At 18-plus hours nonstop, I’m not looking forward to it.” ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/79 "2025-07-29T08:03:45Z")
My husband (by a man) or My wife (by a woman) ---
**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 29, 2025, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/80 "2025-07-29T08:07:32Z")
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