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flying-skeleton

(696 posts) Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:27 PM Oct 2013

Are they EXTINCT yet?

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Are they EXTINCT yet? (Original Post) flying-skeleton Oct 2013 OP

Yes, no, yes, no, no, YES!! Xipe Totec Oct 2013 #1

I dunno...maybe some of these are... CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2013 #2

Me too! progressoid Oct 2013 #6

How come when I see a Republican, I think of this? valerief Oct 2013 #3

Ewwwww LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #5

Yeah, they pretty much were, but not half as bad as girdles. nt valerief Oct 2013 #8

I remember those! Brigid Oct 2013 #10

we still use our rotary dial phone central scrutinizer Oct 2013 #4

Phone systems can still accommodate rotary phones? Brigid Oct 2013 #12

I learned to type on a Selectric II... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #7

hemorrhaging Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2013 #9

Thanks for the laugh Hutzpa Oct 2013 #11

Our office still uses a damn fax machine. musicblind Oct 2013 #13

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

1. Yes, no, yes, no, no, YES!!

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:32 PM

Oct 2013

Read left to right,

top to bottom.

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,620 posts)

2. I dunno...maybe some of these are...

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:32 PM

Oct 2013

We still use our fax machine!

progressoid

(49,990 posts)

6. Me too!

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #2)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:22 PM

Oct 2013

And my wife taped a football game on the VCR last week.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

3. How come when I see a Republican, I think of this?

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 04:48 PM

Oct 2013

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)

5. Ewwwww

Reply to valerief (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:17 PM

Oct 2013

Instrument of torture.

valerief

(53,235 posts)

8. Yeah, they pretty much were, but not half as bad as girdles. nt

Reply to LiberalEsto (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 08:20 PM

Oct 2013

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

10. I remember those!

Reply to valerief (Reply #3)

Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:37 AM

Oct 2013

I'm old, what can I say?

central scrutinizer

(11,648 posts)

4. we still use our rotary dial phone

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 05:08 PM

Oct 2013

and I still kick myself for selling my silky smooth Olympia non-electric typewriter in 1972. I still use my VCR player and I wish I had a Sony Walkman since I have lots of cassettes (I do have a cassette player next to my turntable so I can play them at home, just not while walking.) I have never had use for the other two pictured here, but only one of them is actually far worse than useless.

Brigid

(17,621 posts)

12. Phone systems can still accommodate rotary phones?

Reply to central scrutinizer (Reply #4)

Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:48 AM

Oct 2013

Wow. DU is so edjumacashunul.

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)

7. I learned to type on a Selectric II...

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 08:12 PM

Oct 2013

It was in junior high around 84, and you were encouraged to take typing before you took programming (on Trash, I mean TRS-80s). I think it was a valuable skill to learn, although it drives my wife nuts when I can be typing a post on DU while looking at her and holding a conversation. I was the only boy in a room full of girls- oh, the horror

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)

9. hemorrhaging

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Fri Oct 11, 2013, 08:35 PM

Oct 2013

Hutzpa

(11,461 posts)

11. Thanks for the laugh

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2013, 01:42 AM

Oct 2013

musicblind

(4,484 posts)

13. Our office still uses a damn fax machine.

Reply to flying-skeleton (Original post)

Sat Oct 12, 2013, 02:10 AM

Oct 2013

I don't get it. We have a perfectly good, much quicker, and much more reliable scanner that can scan AND send straight to email at the same time.

Why do my bosses (my parents) insist on the fax machine for sending documents. *sigh*

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