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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThe "TV/teevee machine": do people really say that ?
All my life, I've seen television referred to as TV. Not until I came to DU in 2004 did I ever encounter the term "teevee machine".
No offense to anyone, but was that a joke/meme someone started way back in 2001 ? Do some older people say that ? I'm only 58, and my parents (who would be 100 and 94 this year) never called it that.
Again, I mean no offense but yea I finally got curious enough to ask
blogslut
(38,018 posts)I prefer the term "to fire up the Colortini" because I dig/dug Tom Snyder.
To call it a "teevee machine" is like saying "the internets" or "the twitter". It's way to have some mild fun.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I just never picked up on the sarcasm here. It always seemed the person was being serious. I was like, ok, call it a teevee machine if you wish, I'll call it a TV
Solly Mack
(90,787 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)was invented.
Seriously though, I remember friends of my grandmother calling the telephone (rotary) "the machine".
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I never heard that one! The most old school term I remember, was my parents calling a refrigerator the "icebox". I had visions in my head of people using big tongs to move big blocks of ice into the house
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)"Did you hear that commercial on the electric radio?"
"I was listening to Rush on the electric radio."
He was actually a pretty nice guy, so I never asked him what other kind there was.
Maybe his family was poor and could only afford a crystal set when he was growing up.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)SamKnause
(13,110 posts)Battery operated radios.
They still exist.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)They use electricity to make them work, just like the radios that plug into the wall. The electricity comes from a portable battery that stores a charge instead of directly using the electricity that comes out of the wall.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)When someone refers to electric radio, they usually mean the kind you plug in the wall.
Otherwise they would refer to it as a battery operated radio.
That's my take on it.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)I still don't understand why someone would call it "electric radio", unless you lived in a day where there were no battery operated or plug-in radios.
rurallib
(62,451 posts)hlthe2b
(102,379 posts)I find it a bit irritating, frankly
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)But I'm a big Early Cuyler fan