Thread: Everyday words...

For the computer buffs:

Floppy drive (anyone still remember the 8")

Core memory (as in magnetic core)

Punched tape and card reader

The X-Y machine....(manual card puncher)

Daisy wheel

ed

Multics...

No wonder I am no longer the fine upright man of old....

bloomers.

^^ SCSI (scuzzy) bus

What a pain in the ass that was. Hurray for USB.

Originally Posted by ENT

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Far out.

Or is that still in use ?

Don't get out much do you?

Well no...certainly not to the cigarette smoke-filled BBQs filled with idiotic alcoholics like yourself.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Latin ...

Wop.

Dago.

Pogo..

dingus

brylcream.

Soap box derby


Suspenders (male and female)

Laundry...

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Originally Posted by ENT

Originally Posted by Latindancer

Far out.

Or is that still in use ?

Don't get out much do you?

Well no...certainly not to the cigarette smoke-filled BBQs filled with idiotic alcoholics like yourself.

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

Latin ...

Wop.

Dago.

Itie............................. as you are.



(PS How d'ya fill a BBQ with cigarette smoke and alkies too?? Only in Laladancer land.)

Oh yes.....that reminds me :



Pernickety

Originally Posted by Little Chuchok

dingus

I use dingus all of the time. Older I get, the more I need to use it!

Ethics...

Codswallop...

pismire...

When I was in grade 1 (1961), we learned by heart the verb To Be :

Am
Is
Are
Art
Was
Wast
Were
Wert
Be
Been
Being

Here are some more :

Verily

Maidenhead

Purveyance (foresight)

Forsooth,

thou shouldst have cloven to thine erudite mentors, forsaking thy paltry path of mummery, mimicry and the incantation of mere rote as means of elevation of thine own puerile self to a station a mere modicum above the gutter.

Pinky & Perky

The Woodentops

Achtung!

^ Entworthy

Immigrant

Peckish

Poufe

Antimacassar

Watneys

Coal scuttle

Aspidistra