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What saying will today's kids never know?

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Gas station attendant asking if he can check your oil.
 
"Hand me the bottle opener."

"Church key"?
 
Unsynchronized first gear
 
AngliaGT said:
A few years back I was at a fast food place. The total was something like
$4.88.I gave the kid behind the register $5.13,so I could get a quarter back.
I thought the kid was going to have a nervous breakdown,so I took the
13 cents back.
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Reminds me of stopping one day at a gas station to get a cold drink. Grabbed a couple cokes, handed the kid a $10 then heard him say "uh oh". I asked what was the problem ad he said he'd accidentally put in receiving $20 rather than $10. I told him that was no problem, he would keep $10 of whatever the change was and it would even out. He said he couldn't do that, that he needed to figure it out for himself as, "I might be trying to cheat him". So he gets a pencil, paper and the calculator on his phone, spends several minutes adding and subtracting and comes up with $9 and some change due back. Told him that wasn't right but he insisted he knew what he was doing and wouldn't let me "cheat" him out of money even though the change I insisted on was smaller. So in the end I took it since well, I tried to get it right and he demanded it be wrong in my favor.
 
Ladies and Gentlemen! Morning Folks (man and wife at restaurant) not Morning Guys.
 
Hamish Racing said:
is that the one that copy printed in purple and smelled great ???
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Yes!!! To me it smelled like fresh grapes. :smile: Probably toxic as all heck now but was awesome back then!! :D
 
This reminds me - I recently saw a clickbait ad for "the most popular slang the year you were born".

I did not click, but it reminded me of a plot of f-bomb use vs year. It was a very popular word in the 1650's - used twice as frequently as today. It then became an unused word between 1825 and 1950, when it seems to have been rediscovered - and steadily climbing since.

Point being - tomorrow's kids won't know what a pay phone is or smell the delicious scent of a mimeograph. They won't have to walk uphill against the wind both ways when going to school :smile: .But what comes around goes around. They will write essays, the will write cursive. And they will work hard like we all have.
 
Popeye said:
This reminds me - I recently saw a clickbait ad for "the most popular slang the year you were born".

I did not click, but it reminded me of a plot of f-bomb use vs year. It was a very popular word in the 1650's - used twice as frequently as today. It then became an unused word between 1825 and 1950, when it seems to have been rediscovered - and steadily climbing since.

Point being - tomorrow's kids won't know what a pay phone is or smell the delicious scent of a mimeograph. They won't have to walk uphill against the wind both ways when going to school :smile: .But what comes around goes around. They will write essays, the will write cursive. And they will work hard like we all have.
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amen and as for the F-bomb and 1650 obviously when Tom invented it :rolleyes2:
 
Years ago when I was an undergrad I was taking a Medieval English Literature class that was taught by this small, elderly, and rather prim lady. One day before class a couple of guys were discussing the origin of the F word. They couldn't come to an agreement by the time our professor arrived so one of them decided to ask her, "Dr. Tomlinson, is it true that the F word is a medieval acronym of For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge?" Dr. Tomlinson, sets her bag down at the lectern and replied "Oh no dear, f**k is an Anglo Saxon verb meaning to thrust or stab." She then gave a short impromptu lecture on the manner in which Anglo-Saxons used the word. The entire class was rolling with laughter.
 
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She must have been an adherent of the "sticks and stones" persuasion!

I could see a Second City bit made from that. :bananawave:
 
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