# 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:** 5
**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, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/81 "2025-07-29T08:29:38Z")
Here, Beck, let me help: “Discount Viagra, Nigerian princes, winning lotteries I never bought a ticket for … I tell you, I hate spam.” “Well, I don’t know about those, darling, but I can certainly take Spam off the shopping list. Would you rather have corned beef?” ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/82 "2025-07-29T08:30:36Z")
“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality” > [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > Maybe it un-expired a decade or so later then? To my born in 1977 ear, it I think perhaps you’ve just lumped it in with “old stuff”. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/83 "2025-07-29T09:13:33Z")
The alleged “End of History” turned out not to be such a clear cut win for the West as many had claimed. ---
**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, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/84 "2025-07-29T09:41:13Z")
I want to invest in gold-- plain ingots, or Kruger rands. . . . . OK, nobody \* nice \* said it. ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/85 "2025-07-29T15:11:01Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > “Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality” And, heck, in 1975, what some people were worried about was a new Ice Age, not the ice caps meltings. ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/86 "2025-07-29T15:16:01Z")
Related to those. “Running out of oil is low on the list of oil related problems that I’m worried about”. I’m still amazed that people in the 70s thought we were getting dangerously close to running out of oil. ---
**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, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/87 "2025-07-29T15:21:26Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > “tlhIngan Hol vISaH” ? ? ? ---
**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, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/88 "2025-07-29T15:28:08Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > “Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality” Presciently, the movie _Soylent Green_ (1973) specifically mentioned elevated temperatures due to global warming as part of the general ecological breakdown. It’s why everyone was depicted as sweaty all the time; and why Thorn and Shirl celebrated the last paid-for month at the dead millionaire’s apartment by cranking up the A.C. to make it “as cold as winter used to be”. ---
**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 29, 2025, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/89 "2025-07-29T15:28:48Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > ? ? ? It’s a phrase in Klingon. I think it translates to “I study Klingon.” While the alien Klingon species was created in the 1960s, for the original _Star Trek_ series, in that show, they only spoke in English. A fictional Klingon language wasn’t constructed until _Star Trek: The Motion Picture_, released in 1979, and it only consisted of a few phrases until sometime in the 1980s or 1990s. In other words: no one could have said anything in Klingon in 1975, because the language hadn’t been created yet. ---
**Author:** ![DemonTree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/demontree/32/8646_2.png) [@DemonTree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DemonTree)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/90 "2025-07-29T15:36:13Z")
“She unfriended me on Facebook” ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/91 "2025-07-29T15:42:02Z")
Or “she ghosted me”. ---
**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, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/92 "2025-07-29T16:15:20Z")
“I got a great deal on gas. I was able to fill up my tank for only three dollars a gallon.” ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/93 "2025-07-29T16:15:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It’s a phrase in Klingon. I think it translates to “I study Klingon.” I read it as ‘I speak Klingon’. But then, I’m not a native speaker. ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/94 "2025-07-29T16:18:02Z")
Better stock up on toilet paper while you can - even Costco shelves are empty. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/95 "2025-07-29T16:40:57Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > Though I suppose we can’t be 100% sure. We can’t be 100% sure no one said any of these ! ---
**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 29, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/96 "2025-07-29T16:48:15Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > But then, I’m not a native speaker. I saw what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/97 "2025-07-29T16:50:11Z")
“Someday Sears will be out of business because we all use our computer-phones to buy everything we need.” ---
**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, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/98 "2025-07-29T18:28:42Z")
Psst … post #35 referred to “his husband” ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/99 "2025-07-29T18:34:40Z")
Anybody remember the ozone hole? ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-no-one-said-in-1975/1021434/100 "2025-07-29T18:35:29Z")
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