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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Thursday, 3rd December 2009
There must be so many words that our beloved younger generation may never get to hear, let alone use. Like....
Stove
Telex
Transistor
Must be many more.
Leader tape (not a video of the Prime Minister)
Run-off groove (not a gangsta getaway in-car MP3)
Party line (press the button marked "Press" on the telephone to make a call unless your neighbours are doing so already, not 0898-GROOVE)
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Posted by Mike, Wivenhoe (U7622871) on Thursday, 3rd December 2009
Nice,
Crossed Line - D**n those pesky, reliable digital telephone exchanges.
I delight in the word "ginnel" but that may be more of a Northern thing rather than a term of universal duffrage.
Tony Christie is a Yorkshire lad so it should've be "in the avenues and ginnels".
For a while I thought it was spelt "guinnel", but sadly this no longer seems to be an accepted spelling.
Teasmaid
Ewbank (the carpet sweeper, not the ex-boxer)
Tansad (small child carrier, or indeed the band)
I'm also struggling to think of the name my granddad used for the strange wall-mounted water boiler he had... any suggestions?
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Posted by I am not an organiser etc (U11351618) on Thursday, 3rd December 2009
Cash.
If the queue of 'beauty therapists' in front of me (every morning) using their debit cards to buy a 40p bottle of water is anything to go by.
I'm also struggling to think of the name my granddad used for the strange wall-mounted water boiler he had... any suggestions?Β
Was it an old geyser (the water heater that is, not granddad)?
I would also submit:
Mangle
Gramophone (and its more ostentatious cousin, Radiogram)
Handkerchief
Jetties/jitties (as in the avenues and) are still being built.
We still (just) have the milkman, but I imagine bluetits have forgotten how to peck the bottle tops.
But (at home) we no longer have the bread man or the pop man...
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Posted by mintgreenradiator (U12219337) on Friday, 4th December 2009
Do people still have to turn out the lights and hide behind the sofa when the Catalogue Man walks up the path?
I delight in the word "ginnel" but that may be more of a Northern thing rather than a term of universal duffrageΒ
In the South (well Brighton at least) it's known as a "twitten". As in, "I'm just gonna take this heavy load up Mrs. Althorp's twitten"
ack.
Arguably the first British cartoon character, Ally Sloper, used to "slope" off down the back "alley" when he heard the rent man...
I believe this lyric to be John Cooper Clarke:
"We hear him coming to the door
We hit the lights, we hit the floor"
Anyone got any provenance?
Hand Knitted Jumper
My great-grandfather was, among many things, an artist who drew cartoons for the magazine Ally Sloper's Half Holiday.
But we've never been able to identify any particular cartoons in the magazine that he drew.
Back to the topic: try buying carbon paper or Tippex.
(If anyone mentions a Monkees-related Tippex fact, they lose five trillion points.)
Visuals:
Super 8;
cineloop
motoring:
Standard 8;
choke;
flooded
Re: Water Heaters, I can now reveal the mystery term to be "the Corvette". Which appears to be a still-available brand of water heater, though no longer sporting the deco stylings of my grandfather's model.
Heating has a whole vocabulary of its own.
Poker
Grate
Coal hole
Doing the ashes
though I've only heard of two geyser brands: Vaillant (France) and Stiebel Eltron (Germany)...
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