Just blow in the cartridge
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I borrow movies sometimes from the library, I've used that first one. (Sometimes you want a DVD of a kid's show instead of streaming it)
Also: looking for a phone, any phone in our house has happened.
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"hit me on my two-way"
"You think Monica Lewinsky sucks or blows?"
My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word "hook" in the context of "the phone is off the hook".
A few year back, I took my daughter to an urgent care clinic. She was around 2 or 3 years old. While in the waiting room their office phone rang and my daughter jumped and went, "What was that?" because she had never heard a landline ring before.
Can you give me directions to your house?
Being a little literal, but I can guarantee someone has said 1, 3, 5, and 7 in the past twenty years. Heck, probably the last year.
Payphones are still a thing in some places and get used - I started doing a thing involving them a yearish ago (it's in my post history if anyone really cares). Literally had someone ask "Hey, are you done with that phone?" as I was jotting down its number, which was shocking. Can confirm where I am they still take coins (it's 50 cents now, unless you're calling a toll-free number).
VHS is making a ... come back isn't really the right word, but there's a small number of folks interested in what's on old tapes they find and some hobbyists swap stuff. And there are still a few video rental places around (though really, really rare - or near places like campsites, catering to folks with cars that still have DVD players or households with spotty internet).
It's all still disappearing, no doubt, but not 100% dead yet.
"Can I borrow that VHS?"
20 years ago it would have been DVDs. But even before that, we didn't call them "VHS"es. We called them tapes, or video tapes if we wanted to distinguish from audio tapes.
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I'll be back in five moons, we're running out of mammoth meat (translation)
If you need to get a hold of me, page me 911 first then your number
"Don't call my home phone, I'll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead."
"Sorry. I have to return some video tapes" gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.
Is that available for OS/2 Warp?
Can you turn the antenna to ___ insert satellite name ___ ?
For context
where I grew up, almost every immigrant houshold had a satellite antenna, to watch channels across the world. Since my parents were immigrants, we had to turn the antenna each time we wanted to watch either local news or news from our country of origin.
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