# Well, it finally happened to me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005 "2016-10-19T04:09:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 19, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/21 "2016-10-19T23:42:44Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Got you all beat: I have my dad’s wire recorder out in the garage. Have not tried it recently, not sure if it still works. May need to have a tube or two replaced (if that is even possible). I have a collection of 78s and a record player you just wind. I just bought it fir the heck of it once, kicking around an antique shop, and the collection started with my grandmother’s old records, and I’ve since added to it. I have a bunch of cool stuff. Once when I lived in an apartment building in the 1990s, the power went out, so I lit a bunch of candles, and started playing 78s. People came by to ask where I was getting the music-- did I have a boom box with batteries, or something, and everyone thought the record player was cool. Then we found out we could set it on its slowest speed (it had variable speed for dancing) and play 45s on it. Turned out a lot of people had dusty collections of 45s. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/22 "2016-10-20T00:05:48Z")
[I saw **god**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbdMxrlvLHo) ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 7:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/23 "2016-10-20T07:28:17Z")
While on vacation two years ago, I was standing next to a pier waiting for a boat when a father and his two little boys walked by. There was a pay phone nearby and as they walked past it the father pointed at it and said to them “That’s what people used to make phone calls back before they had cell phones.” ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/24 "2016-10-20T08:50:07Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I would have thought that, with digital distribution, singles would be even bigger now than they were Back In The Day. Hardly anyone buys whole albums any more, it seems. True; I think the OP is saying the person in question has another word in mind for singles (e.g. “track” or “song”). I was still surprised by this though – my recollection was that plenty of sites still use the term “single” but just googling around I see it has largely been phased out now. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/25 "2016-10-20T09:17:52Z")
The other day I was having a conversation with a 28 year old who really loved the movie _Swordfish_ with “that Australian actor” and “the dude from _Grease_”. So many things wrong with this. Not least of which that we live in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2016, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/26 "2016-10-20T23:36:33Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > True; I think the OP is saying the person in question has another word in mind for singles (e.g. “track” or “song”). Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I did get to give her a brief history lesson, though. I told her about how, in the early days of rock & roll, singles were the most important thing. An artist would get signed and would record a single. If it was a hit, they’d get to record more singles, and after a few hit singles, the record company would collect them into an album. It occurred to me that the internet and YouTube are sorta bringing that back to a certain degree. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/27 "2016-10-21T00:14:46Z")
Yeah. Referring to a song as a “single” is pretty much like my grandmother calling jeans “dungarees,” or the fridge an “ice box.” As far as anyone under 25 is concerned. ---
**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:** [October 21, 2016, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/28 "2016-10-21T00:19:06Z")
Y’know, that reminds me of an expression one of my aunts used to use. If you asked her what kind of day she had, and it wasn’t great, but nothing bad happened, she’d say it was a “B-side” day. Sometimes she’d call other things “B-side.” “How was the Finklestein bar mitzvah?” “B-side.” I haven’t heard her say that in a while. It was a good expression in its day. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/29 "2016-10-21T00:28:01Z")
For Southern Californians, a standard expression back in the day to denote excitement was saying something “was an ‘E ticket’ ride.” Say it today and not only kids but their parents will look at you blankly. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/30 "2016-10-21T04:37:39Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > Technology-related: there was an episode of The Middle where the oldest kid is locked in the library without his cell phone. There’s a rotary desk phone and he just kind of looks at it – how do you use this thing?! Kids react to rotary phones. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM) ---
**Author:** ![Common\_Tater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/common_tater/32/13846_2.png) [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/31 "2016-10-21T04:49:41Z")
My older brother had several 45s, from that weird post 60s era changing of the guard to 70s easy listening. I was about 6 or 7 and listened to the groovy stuff. “In the Year 2525” and “Hitchin’ A Ride” and “Knock Three Times” to “Age of Aquarius”. I played “Ballad of New Orleans” once too often apparently, my other brother broke it in half. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/32 "2016-10-21T04:59:16Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Got you all beat: I have my dad’s wire recorder out in the garage. Have not tried it recently, not sure if it still works. May need to have a tube or two replaced (if that is even possible). I’ve got a rock with a petroglyph! ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/33 "2016-10-22T23:08:59Z")
I still have a 45. Radar Love by Golden Earring. No way to play it, but I’m not getting rid of it. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/34 "2016-10-22T23:14:31Z")
I work with a 30ish guy named Davies who never heard of the Kinks. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/35 "2016-10-22T23:29:31Z")
Damn there’s a lot of people we need to shoo off our lawns… ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/36 "2016-10-23T09:15:59Z")
> [@rowrrbazzle](#): > > Kids react to rotary phones. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkuirEweZvM) this is part of why so many of us love the Dope. Just spent 45 minutes laughing at kids reacting to old tech. Anybody have a car with an under-the-dash 45 player? My (now) brother-in-law had this old 50s or 60s era International Travelall that the previous owner had tricked out with these big old gauge style thermometer and barometer and a 45 player under the dash. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2016, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/37 "2016-10-23T12:16:46Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I still have all of my father’s 78s. That was when an album was an actual album. This XKCD explains to today’s youth what that record-scratch sound is: > **[Record Scratch](https://xkcd.com/1745/)** > > The 78-rpm era was closer to the Civil War than to today. And, the mouse-over text is apropos your comment. The 78-rpm era was closer to the Civil War than to today. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005/38 "2016-11-09T04:13:13Z")
This is happening to the OP remarkably late. My moment came in my 20s in the 1970s, when teenagers expressed surprise that Paul McCartney of Wings had been in a previous band. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/well-it-finally-happened-to-me/769005.md?page=1)