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Randy D

Telegram! Reverse the charges. Do I have any messages? Call the travel agent. Hold all my calls.

Similar to the examples above, what are some other phrases that are largely obsolete nowadays?

(They need not be just technology-related nor communications-related.)


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Posted - October 21, 2020
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  • 10052
    I'll give you my pager number. 

    I'll buy this tape and you buy that one and we'll make copies for each other. 

    I'm just listening to Casey Kasem with my finger ready to hit 'record' when the good songs come on. 

    Your pictures will be ready next Tuesday. 

    I have to get off the phone, my mom is expecting a call.






      October 21, 2020 7:31 PM MDT
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      Pure gold!

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      October 21, 2020 9:02 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    Pagers are back!!!   I was in the bank the other day and two men had pagers on their belts.  A third man asked them about it and they said all employees in their company now carry text pagers rather than mobile phones.  I was glad to hear it.  I loved my pager.....it made my life so much easier but wasn't demanding like a phone ringing.    I would go back to one but there are no coin phones anymore to return calls.  The text pagers are as good as mobiles if all you do is text.

    Oh, and I still use a land line and have never had call waiting.  I can only talk to one person at a time, so why have the interruptions.  I'm retired from AT&T.  :) This post was edited by Thriftymaid at October 22, 2020 5:14 PM MDT
      October 21, 2020 11:48 PM MDT
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      I miss public pay phones so much you wouldn’t believe it. 

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      October 22, 2020 8:08 AM MDT
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  • 10052
    I've seen that in hospitals. Not the same kind of pager from the 90's, though! Smart-pagers! 

    I haven't had a landline in years. I do put my phone on do not disturb regularly. If not, I feel like a slave to it. 
      October 22, 2020 6:47 PM MDT
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  • 16777
    Gadzooks! Adjust thy merkin, sirrah.
      October 21, 2020 7:33 PM MDT
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    LOL!

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      October 21, 2020 8:59 PM MDT
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  • 848
      October 21, 2020 8:18 PM MDT
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      CLASSIC!

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      October 21, 2020 9:00 PM MDT
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  • 23577

    Based on some of my observations of society in general :


    "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
      October 21, 2020 8:37 PM MDT
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      October 21, 2020 9:02 PM MDT
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  • 23577
    Thanks.
    :)
      October 21, 2020 9:07 PM MDT
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  • 10638
    My word is my bond
      October 21, 2020 10:07 PM MDT
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  • 17596
    None of your examples are really obsolete.  They are not as widely common as once but many executives have private secretaries and still depend on them.  I know a couple of department heads at my alma matter university who still utilize secretaries.  I only received one telegram in my life, and actually it was for my husband.    My family members still use a travel agent for travel too.  The same family owns that company for my whole life.  They get better rates than from the online ticket sellers.  Calls from prisons are collect calls. 
      October 21, 2020 11:57 PM MDT
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      Thank you, those are good points.
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      October 22, 2020 8:06 AM MDT
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  • 8214
    This message is from Honeydew.  Stop  (as in a telegram) "Stop" was used a lot but I never knew why, maybe to signal the end of a sentence. 

     The record has a scratch so it skips.
      October 22, 2020 9:14 AM MDT
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      You’re right about the word “stop” being used in telegram in place of a period to denote that a sentence had ended.
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      October 22, 2020 5:45 PM MDT
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