Thursday, March 24, 2011

Dinosaurs... hear them roar!

There's a *new* Bon Jovi song out there (and I'm using the term loosely... it probably came out a year ago!) that has a line that caught my ear today:
Saving dimes, spending too much time on the telephone
Who says you can't go home?
I thought to myself, "HA! They are dating themselves by referring to phone calls that cost a dime... phone calls were a quarter when I was growing up!" And then it hit me -- kids today don't even know about pay phones! I mean, look at this strip from Pearls Before Swine (which, coincidentally ran yesterday!):


So THEN I went on to think about that ever-so-clever insult (that I'm sure we've all heard): "Here's a quarter, go call someone who cares." Yeah, it's out-dated. Meaningless. Lost on all of my students.

Like the dinosaurs, that phrase might as well be extinct!

So I have a task for you: Find some more "dinosaurs". I want to make a list! I'll add them here as you send them to me. Don't let me down!

  1. Here's a quarter, go call someone who cares.
  2. Roll down the window.
  3. Be kind, rewind.
  4. You sound like a broken record.

8 comments:

  1. My sister & I laugh about how my parents made me tape a quarter to my shoe bottom when I went to prom in case I needed to call them. Freakish for so many reasons! I'll work on the assignment.....

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  2. Rewind the tape ... be kind, rewind.

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  3. remember when you had to yell around the house to see if anyone needs the phone when you wanted to sign online?

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  4. Does this apply- "Now you're cooking with gas!"
    b/c really, I would actually like to be able to cook w/ gas :-D

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  5. You sound like a broken record.

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  6. Ok, I can't think of any but it is so true!

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  7. "don't put the cart before the horse"
    not that's before our time too...

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