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?”
“Global warming is no longer a philosophical threat, no longer a future threat, no longer a threat at all. It’s our reality”
I think perhaps you’ve just lumped it in with “old stuff”.
The alleged “End of History” turned out not to be such a clear cut win for the West as many had claimed.
I want to invest in gold-- plain ingots, or Kruger rands.
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OK, nobody * nice * said it.
And, heck, in 1975, what some people were worried about was a new Ice Age, not the ice caps meltings.
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.
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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”.
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.
“She unfriended me on Facebook”
Or “she ghosted me”.
“I got a great deal on gas. I was able to fill up my tank for only three dollars a gallon.”
I read it as ‘I speak Klingon’. But then, I’m not a native speaker.
Better stock up on toilet paper while you can - even Costco shelves are empty.
We can’t be 100% sure no one said any of these !
I saw what you did there.
“Someday Sears will be out of business because we all use our computer-phones to buy everything we need.”
Psst … post #35 referred to “his husband”
Anybody remember the ozone hole?
Good thing we survived the Y2K scare.