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Krispy Wafer posted:R.E.M. has a few of those. “S. Central Rain” is someone upset that they can’t call their girlfriend/boyfriend because storms out West have downed all the long distance lines. whoa
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FreudianSlippers posted:And in the 00s at least half of song lyrics online were put there by some rando who often misheard the words. It's not much better now honestly.
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Now we get the actual lyrics (or close enough) but with excruciatingly detailed footnotes by some rando analysing them.
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postmodifier posted:Excuse me, while I kiss this guy Queen's never published the lyrics for Mustapha. There isn't a 100% consensus on what Freddie Mercury was singing. Since Queen didn't provide much of the background vocals ("hey!"), it's possible they never asked and Mercury never told.
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Mister Kingdom posted:Then there's "Western Union" - a 60s classic: Man, sending a breakup note collect. Harsh. "Telegraphic" as a synonym for "shortened" is something, too. Textspeak is similar but not the same. The legend goes that a press agent once wired Cary Grant. HOW OLD CARY GRANT Grant replied OLD CARY GRANT FINE HOW YOU
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FreudianSlippers posted:Now we get the actual lyrics (or close enough) but with excruciatingly detailed footnotes by some rando analysing them.
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postmodifier posted:My very first job was working a million years ago for sears-roebuck (RIP) and we had to use those card impression machines pretty much every day because the store's technology back then was literally unix terminal holdovers from something like the early 60s and would constantly fail. We always affectionately called them "knuckle-busters", but when the credit card system failed for over a day at my current job, I asked if we had one and literally nobody, I mean nobody, had any loving idea what I was talking about, across a group of about 13 other people of varied ages. Oooh the only time I’ve ever seen one of those used when I had a credit card was on a small island in the South Pacific... eighteen years ago.
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I'm just going to post the entire lyrics of Meri Wilson's 1977 novelty hit song "Telephone Man" because in 2020 they may as well be written in Linear Aquote:I rented my apartment
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Arsenic Lupin posted:There's a gorgeous Jim Croce song called "Operator" about a guy trying to call his girlfriend and talking to the long-distance operator about the relationship; "you can keep the dime" refers, of course, to the money he put in the pay phone. Dr. Hook has Sylvia’s Mother And the operator says, '40 cents more for the next 3 minutes' Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her I'll only keep her a while Please Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell 'er goodbye
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm just going to post the entire lyrics of Meri Wilson's 1977 novelty hit song "Telephone Man" because in 2020 they may as well be written in Linear A I think loving the repairman/cable guy is still a common enough motif that that doesn’t seem too foreign? Telephone man, like the classic horny milkman, might be antiquated, but i think most zoomers old enough to get loving the visiting help would still be aware of the concept of landlines, and none of the other lyrics seem particularly dated. That said I thought of this thread when staring at a phone jack in my older apartment and wondering how many Youths would know what it is. Pontius Pilate fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Jul 21, 2020 |
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FreudianSlippers posted:Now we get the actual lyrics (or close enough) but with excruciatingly detailed footnotes by some rando analysing them. I wonder if the rando footnotes, like the boring personal stories on recipe sites, exist entirely for SEO purposes.
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Pontius Pilate posted:I think loving the repairman/cable guy is still a common enough motif that that doesn’t seem too foreign? Telephone man, like the classic horny milkman, might be antiquated, but i think most zoomers old enough to get loving the visiting help would still be aware of the concept of landlines, and none of the other lyrics seem particularly dated. Yeah you can glean the major themes from context clues but some of the specifics are utterly alien. No one's going to get that "let your fingers do the walking" reference.
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Pontius Pilate posted:
Lots of them, in  at least - it's where you plug in your ADSL modem. (Cable internet is fairly rare over here, basically only Virgin - everyone else is ADSL)
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I really just want to write the modern Operator song. I guess it would be a song to a sys-admin? "I sent her an email, it got marked by you as spam but I want to let her know that I'm willing to be her man can't you send it through isn't that something that sys-admins do? Now my love isn't like linux, because it is closed sourced and it's proprietary software that will never run its course in terms you'd understand she's m'lady, and I'm her man"
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Carried that printer all the way to her house Walked back home heartbroken, I had just met her spouse
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Yeah you can glean the major themes from context clues but some of the specifics are utterly alien. No one's going to get that "let your fingers do the walking" reference. You don't have to be that old to remember the slogan; ads were still using it in the 90s.
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Pontius Pilate posted:That said I thought of this thread when staring at a phone jack in my older apartment and wondering how many Youths would know what it is. Lol the house we just moved into has a phone jack and a coaxial cable jack in every. loving. room. We have the internet plugged into fibre in the corner of the living room. The rest are just annoying blemishes on the wall.
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Safety Biscuits posted:You don't have to be that old to remember the slogan; ads were still using it in the 90s. In Australia that slogan was overtaken by 'Not, happy, Jan' an ad that ran in the early 2000's for the deadline for Yellow Pages submissions. It's still in the vernacular.
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Safety Biscuits posted:You don't have to be that old to remember the slogan; ads were still using it in the 90s. I don't want to ruin your day, but 1990 was 30 years ago. Also; your haircut is outdated, you don't suit those jeans and you are using modern slang all wrong.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I really just want to write the modern Operator song. I was born in the 90s. I'm 26. I'm still in college. I have no idea what any of this means.
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https://youtu.be/3RA4MykPm4s This song or variations of it is half the content of the this thread, not without reason. Edited because I read the above post and thought I was in the working IT thread, sorry! Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Jul 24, 2020 |
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Okay but what about Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy
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This isn't actually media, but. My daughter's charming 20th-century apartment has a small open arch in the wall between the kitchen and the living room. They thought it was a food pass-through, but my husband took one look and said "It has a phone jack." I had to explain to my daughter that the phone company charged you extra for each phone handset in the house, so putting a phone in a passthrough arch meant you could answer phone calls from both the kitchen and the living room.
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Depressio111117 posted:Okay but what about Rapid Roy the Stock Car Boy Honestly...listening to that nowadays Roy driving 100mph smiling at the camera with a toothpick in his mouth sounds fairly modern. Like what camera was he smiling at in 1970? Nowadays you've got red light, CCTV, cell phones, etc...
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Lead out in cuffs posted:Lol the house we just moved into has a phone jack and a coaxial cable jack in every. loving. room. If you own the home it’s pretty baby simple to cut the drywall, tuck the wires, and do a replacement drywall patch.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I was born in the 90s. I'm 26. I'm still in college. I have no idea what any of this means. Well, today is the day I finally embrace death.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I have no idea what any of this means. Email? Spam emails? An email system incorrectly marking something as spam?
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Captain Monkey posted:If you own the home it’s pretty baby simple to cut the drywall, tuck the wires, and do a replacement drywall patch. Please terminate them with safety caps. Power surges are a thing.
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I know this is a derail but it just needs to be stated for the record that this is the far superior Operator song relative to the Jim Croce one https://youtu.be/3MZeol_aMAM edit: to bring it back on topic, another lost reference from the song beyond the operator, is “house of blue lights”. I suspect this was probably lost 10-20 years ago at least so it’s not freshly lost per se, but I personally didn’t know what it was and it wasn’t immediately obvious from a quick google. Some references to a house in like Indiana or Ohio with a lot of blue Christmas lights left up year round, and some to some kind of haunted house folk story. Dug a little more and seems like it’s actually a reference to a bar/club in Chicago from the 40s that was popularized in a song: http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/operator.html Sharks Eat Bear fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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All the talk about telephone operators in songs got this one stuck in my head, so I have to add it to the thread's collection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVaommgPLU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDS4NgbpYs (Retro, I guess. They were in highschool at the time! )
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Ynglaur posted:Please terminate them with safety caps. Power surges are a thing. Yes please do that too. It’s still quite easy and safety caps are cheap.
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Captain Monkey posted:If you own the home it’s pretty baby simple to cut the drywall, tuck the wires, and do a replacement drywall patch. Sadly we do not, but the landlords do seem fairly enthusiastic about renovation projects (one is a professional handyman). There are some other projects that might be higher priority though.
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If we're just doing operator songs now I'm game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgjZzK7c0Sc
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My Lovely Horse posted:If we're just doing operator songs now I'm game Well, I was just shitposting because I'm sick of the topic, but I actually really enjoyed that song so idk.
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Cemetry Gator posted:I heard ELO's Telephone Line today, and I realized the song sung to the operator is a trope that makes no sense. Nowadays, he'd leave a text, or a voicemail, and be on with it. Peak telephone, peak 80's, peak shelley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5oz8b3UJM
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The entire musical Bells are Ringing. The heroine works taking phone messages for people, and falls in love with one of her invisible clients. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVEOg_ZW1Zw Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Jul 25, 2020 |
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Speaking of music, the bazooka is an instrument, kind of like a trombone. The anti tank weapon resembles one, so got nicknamed bazooka. Now the nickname is far more popular then the reference.
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neaden posted:Speaking of music, the bazooka is an instrument, kind of like a trombone. The anti tank weapon resembles one, so got nicknamed bazooka. Now the nickname is far more popular then the reference. Holy cow. The Wiki article has a picture, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_(instrument)
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy cow. The Wiki article has a picture, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_(instrument) Eh, looks more like a panzerfaust to me
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