OT: OT - Outdated Words That Were Once Popular

[dvegas]

When I was in college, those two companies: Eastman Kodak an Xerox are the best for jobs.
Now, Kodak and Xerox are barely surviving with market cap. less than $500M.

more relevant here is General Electric Capital Corporation, aka GECC. They are just GE now because they lost all their capital!

 

[KnightBridgeAZ]

I appreciate many of these "old" words, but I have to admit my first thought on reading the title was words from truly past eras that come up in old books. Egad, for example. I have been reading some mysteries dating to the 1920's, and there have been words I have had to look up and they come up in my definitions as "historical".

Also amazing in reading from another era was the casual use of words we now consider slurs. Not always, though sadly often, used in precisely that way.

 

[Skeets]

Service Merchandise

I used to shop there. With stores locking their merchandise behind glass, that business model is making a comeback.

Question isn't "The bomb" a little too new to be on the list? FYI, I'm a little uneasy talking about bombs online in this day and age. No telling if AI is going to flag this.

 

[CL82]

I used to shop there. With stores locking their merchandise behind glass, that business model is making a comeback.

Question isn't "The bomb" a little too new to be on the list? FYI, I'm a little uneasy talking about bombs online in this day and age. No telling if AI is going to flag this.

 

[JstVisiting]

Count me old.

Bummer, dude

 

[WiseWillie]

Chill out
My Pad
My old lady or my Mama ( Gf or wife)
Give me five
Solid
A Flick (movie)
The man
Hit me on the hip (page me)
Peace. (I still use this one)
Square
Turkey
Dynamite
Going to A Go Go or juke joint
Outta of sight
I'm Fly. (Well dressed)
Cloud nine or lifted
Wolf tickets
Iron Horse ( subway)
The Hawk. ( Ice cold winter breeze)
The Dragon (bad beath)
The pigs, 5-0 or Po-Po
Dig it
Truckin
Clobber
And many more....I miss those good ole days

Dogstar, you're the coolest.

 

[Husky25]

I heard somewhere that "Groceries" is an old fashioned word.

 

[Blond D.]

sounds like a bunch of MALARKEY to me.

 

[Dogstar]

Dogstar, you're the coolest.

Thks but my kids would disagree, they're always trying to blow my vibe mann, Little killjoys always putting me down. I get back at em whn their friends are over and they ask me " how are you doing sir" I say Everything's Hip, feeling Groovy watching the tube rapping with a friend, it's like being in Shangri-la, peace Love and Harmony ( flashing the peace sign). The youngest says " Dad ur weird " ...I tell her Yeah... I Love you too my little Fun Sponge.... PEACE ✌️

 

[cabbie191]

Pretty soon, CD

Please no! Seems to me no CD, no Geno. 😥

 

[AidanFan20]

Horseless Carriage

 

[Bigboote]

Thks but my kids would disagree, they're always trying to blow my vibe mann, Little killjoys always putting me down. I get back at em whn their friends are over and they ask me " how are you doing sir" I say Everything's Hip, feeling Groovy watching the tube rapping with a friend, it's like being in Shangri-la, peace Love and Harmony ( flashing the peace sign). The youngest says " Dad ur weird " ...I tell her Yeah... I Love you too my little Fun Sponge.... PEACE ✌️

Reminds me of the scene in Better Off Dead:

 

[Dove]

Radical!!

"This rots!"

Ditto

jahoobies

sore ribs (now, strained oblique)

ralph

banged a uey

dribbles (the ball)

"It's a home run!!"

mass

 

[fomalhaut]

Pretty soon, CD

I just bought a brand new Hyundai Tucson Hybrid.
And it does not have CD, only has a Sam Data USB flash drive.

CD's are making a comeback (I still have over 100, and recently completed my collection of the Beatles studio albums). Many
people like the idea of owning permanent physical copies of their favorite music.

 

[fomalhaut]

How about “carbon copy”

still in use (in e-mail) though usually abbreviated.

 

[veryolddog]

swell

 

[drweo]

Mimeo copy/machine

 

[Kaizen]

Telephone Booth

 

[zymurg]

going, going, gone

foul by the length of a white owl

big cheese

 

[fomalhaut]

I heard somewhere that "Groceries" is an old fashioned word.

Replaced by what?

 

[Veteran]

Milkman

When was the last time anybody had a reason to use that word?

 

[Galaxyshooter]

Word
I'm chillin
Yo chill out
you'er a scrub
That was wack
yo cuz
This is dope

 

[Galaxyshooter]

Replaced by what?

body nutrients?..lol

 

[Happydad745]

Cutting a rug or let's cut a rug

 

[dvegas]

Grass, not the kind on your lawn