Vintage descriptions for new ideas

[carebear]

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]Put the Huey Lewis album down and step away from the nailgun...[/QUOTE]

Thank you sir for recognizing it. :eusa_clap

 

[Ada Veen]

"Let's see Jack Newcastle's card."

{interior dialogue}
Look at that subtle off-white coloring.
The tasteful thickness of it.
Oh, my God. It even has a watermark."
{/interior dialogue}

"Is something wrong, carebear? You're sweating."

lol

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Thank you sir for recognizing it. :eusa_clap

Always a pleasure, Mister C. And it is a very nice card.

 

[Diamondback]

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]Put the Huey Lewis album down and step away from the nailgun...[/QUOTE]
Why? Nailguns are fun... especially once you disable the safeties. :WeNeedA"Tackleberry"EmoticonHere:

For fans or A/C, there's always the "ventilator"... and here you thought I'd apply that label to something else! lol

 

[scotrace]

Bump

For pdxvintagette.

 

[Diamondback]

That's a great font, Senator.

Don't know about his name, but the rest looks like one called "Copperplate Gothic Bold"--don't ask me why they put a "Gothic" into the name of a sans-serif font...

 

[Undertow]

Call me out on this if I'm wrong but I find it ironic that we should all be having this discussion.

Back in the day, words like "wondergram" or "electrofile" would have been fitting words to describe the 'new' and 'amazing' technologies of tomorrow. And I imagine in most cases these words were dreamed up by some innovative marketing rep whose title was likely not 'marketing rep'.

Today, we have things like "blackberry", "etrade" and "phenom" which are terms dreamed up by marketing reps to describe the 'new' and 'amazing' technologies found in little electronic devices we simply can't live without.

So in effect, to combat the obnoxious present-day names attributed to our daily devices, we turn to the old-time names attributed to similar devices.

I'm not complaining; I really like the idea. But I suppose that's what brings me to this wonderful vintage forum.

I know it's not quite vintage, but I have a tendency to refer to cars as automobiles now and again. I also refer to a small pinch of whiskey (about a half shot) as a 'peg'. Again, not entirely vintage, but certainly used back in those days.

 

[Dr Doran]

I almost never say car. It's automobile or auto. But then again, I barely drive.

Field telephone doesn't work personally for me. "Gadget."

Electrogram is much better than email. But if it gets shortened to e-gram then ... not so cute. Still better than email.

The Vatican broadcasts in Latin say epistulae electronicae for emails. I rather like that. "Can you e.e. me?" or better "Potes mihi e.e.?"

 

[Idledame]

First off, thank you for bringing this thread back Scotrace!! I'm ashamed to admit that I just followed the hoi polloi willy-nillie as far as names for these new devices. I plan to change my ways and confound the locals with my new-old vocabulary. And Electronic Epistle will be among them. I like that better than electrogram, which sounds way too much like a medical test.

 

[Guttersnipe]

And now to revive an old thread...

I was doing a last minute emergency business card layout for pdxvintagette yesterday and came up with a good one. She requested the card say field telephone and electric post as opposed to cell and e-mail. With such awesome old terms for new things, using online store just didn't sit right with those, so I came up with...PAPERLESS CATALOGUE...pretty catchy if you ask me.