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CULTURE/SOCIETY - 11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard

Who knew that some noises could eventually become as extinct as the passenger pigeon? Depending on your age, you or your kids or grandchildren may have only heard some of the following sounds in old movies, if at all.

1. ROTARY DIAL TELEPHONE

The formerly familiar swooosh as the caller rotated the dial clockwise to the "finger stop" and then the click-click-click as the dial returned counter-clockwise to the start position is now a novelty application that you can install on your iPhones for nostalgic yuks. Adolescents waiting in line nearby will wonder what the heck that sound is, while we older fogies will know you're poking fun at us and our ancient ways.

2. MANUAL TYPEWRITER

Manual typewriters had an entire subset of unique sounds that made them immediately identifiable...at one time. The keys clacked loudly as they struck the paper, the carriage lifted up with a distinct clunk when the shift key was employed, and then there was the ping of the bell warning you that you were nearing the end of the line. That meant you had to lift your left hand from the keyboard and swipe at the carriage return lever, which caused a sort of ziiiiip noise as you pushed the carriage back to the starting position.

6. RECORD CHANGER

Record changers allowed you to stack a selection of albums of 45s (seven-inch singles, not guns!) for your longer-term listening pleasure. Each record would make a soft slap sound as it dropped onto the turntable, a series of clicks followed as the remaining records adjusted into place and the tone arm swung over and lowered the needle into the outer grooves of the record. You'd hear the slightest scritch noise as the stylus settled just so into the vinyl and then (finally!) the music began.

10. FILM PROJECTOR

One of the jobs of the classroom A/V squad captain was to run the film projector on movie days. The rapid tick-tick-tick of the sprockets really was that loud and usually accompanied by shouts of "Turn it up!" and, of course, "Focus!"

11. BROKEN RECORD

Remember when you'd beg mom over and over for something and she'd finally yell, "You sound like a broken record!"? She wasn't referring to pops or hisses, but the repetitive effect that happened when the needle got stuck and played the same few notes over and over and over again.

If you're not afraid of revealing your true age, let us know how many of these you remember from your past!

http://mentalfloss.com/article/29230/11-sounds-your-kids-have-probably-never-heard

CULTURE/SOCIETY: My "Tweets" From Twitter

Oh my god! I didn't know Twitter didn't keep all of our "tweets" indefinitely! So I'm posting mine here. - OlderMusicGeek

boy, my daughter was mad at me! i told the whole family how a boy bought her a sundae at dairy queen - just like in that tv commercial! 07:33 AM May 28, 2008 from web

and yesterday, i got a stern lecture from her about keeping private things private! so what i do? post it on twitter! :D 07:32 AM May 28, 2008 from web

some days it doesn't pay to get out of bed - p.o'ed daughter, crappy internet, messed computer at work, 3 blackouts before 9!, etc! 10:18 AM May 27, 2008 from web

doing quick checks on my email, myspace-http://www.myspace.com/olde... and twitter before the internet goes wonky again! 12:39 PM May 26, 2008 from web

my internet is acting funky again! still going slower than normal. urgh! it started less than 2 hours after the repairs! 01:54 PM May 25, 2008 from web

@juice_brianne (in homer voice with drool slobbering out of my mouth) mmmmm pancakes! 01:53 PM May 25, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

juice_brianne my mom is making me pancakes! 10:41 AM May 25, 2008 from web

yoohoo! my internet was just fixed! can listen to streaming music while doing stuff on the internet! yeehaw! now if it just stays this way! 04:01 PM May 24, 2008 from web

my stepdad told me that my mom thought the car wasn't my type-too sporty. i said any car in my price range that runs well is my kind of car! 03:07 PM May 24, 2008 from web

it seems everyone is agreeing - my daughter's friend said, "you're right. this car is too cool for your dad!" 02:50 PM May 24, 2008 from web

@juice_brianne - how about spending it on a phone? so are you a volunteer working for free at juice - or do they actually pay you? :) 03:04 PM May 21, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

juice_brianne I just won a really lovely award and am going to spend my $$$ on a camera. Best model under $250? 02:55 PM May 21, 2008 from TwitterFox

i didnt mention my daughter's favorite part of our new car-the sunroof! she used it a lot until i told her to pick a setting and leave it! 01:58 PM May 21, 2008 from web

@juice_brianne - good lord! you do live in a cave! we'll have to start calling you wilma or betty! or something like oog ahg ahg! 12:10 PM May 21, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

juice_brianne @OlderMusicGeek I don't even have a landline...or Cable...or the internet (OK, I steal that...) 10:12 AM May 21, 2008 from web in reply to OlderMusicGeek

and want the car lacks in head room, it makes up in trunk space! you could stick 3, 4 bodies back there - probably 5 if you pushed hard! 10:12 AM May 21, 2008 from web

just got title registered with the county and got new plates for my new car! woot! 10:11 AM May 21, 2008 from web

@juice_brianne - drop your landline and just go cell phone! 10:10 AM May 21, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

yay! got a new car! and it only comes from the last decade! :) in fact, it isn't even a decade old! 08:03 AM May 21, 2008 from web

and i can't deal with my occasion bouts of insomnia without internet! 10:13 AM May 20, 2008 from web

argh! internet dead slow this morning! got to be the connection cus the computer ran sooooo fast at my friend's -and he has meadiacom too! 09:14 AM May 20, 2008 from web

@gracewilson - if i'm on the computer, i'm usually listening to my pandora station - http://tinyurl.com/5crg39 07:58 PM May 19, 2008 from web in reply to GraceWilson

showed my daughter a movie of my younger days - wizards - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizards_(film). she said it was weird but she wasnt impressed. 07:13 AM May 19, 2008 from web

i have to admit i liked "wizards" better in my 20s in a theater at midnight with fellow fans than watching on tv in my 40s with my daughter. 07:12 AM May 19, 2008 from web

the computer is working better, but not as well as when i had it hooked up at my friend's house on the west side! urgh! curse you mediacom! 08:34 PM May 18, 2008 from web

pray to the computer gods! cross your fingers! i'm taking my computer to my friend's to be fixed! maybe i'll have reliable internet again! 08:27 AM May 18, 2008 from web

clark kent from the metropolis newspaper, daily planet, actually has a twitter account. so far, it's kind of cool! - under clarkkentplanet 05:43 PM May 16, 2008 from web

@juice_brianne - what do you know about 1992? how old were you? 6? :) clinton ran against dole that year - i think it was that year? 05:37 PM May 16, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

tweens! aaaaargh! how am i going to deal with when she's a teenager?! 08:02 AM May 16, 2008 from web

i'm going to homer-strangle my daughter one day. she was only half making sense, so i ask some questions. "Forget it! I can't talk to you!" 08:01 AM May 16, 2008 from web

@bbrown777-are you the "random list of things" gal? if twitters haven't seen it, check it at http://randomlistsofthings.... 07:37 AM May 16, 2008 from web in reply to bbrown777

i don't know what happened yesterday-but i jumped from only 1 follower to 5! if it keeps up at this rate, i'll be the most popular twitter! 03:30 AM May 16, 2008 from web

@juice_brianne - thanks for following my twit - you doubled the number of followers i have! *waves at jord lewis* 02:09 PM May 15, 2008 from web in reply to juice_brianne

yay to the california court for standing up against discrimination! 02:01 PM May 15, 2008 from web

my daughter is such a tween-any mention of balls becomes a joke-and when i mentioned how i like chicken breasts, i got a big ewwwwww! 01:47 PM May 15, 2008 from web

listened to the raveonettes 1st cd "whip it on" and new cd "lust lust lust"-not as good as "pretty in black" but both are 8's or solid B's! 09:11 PM May 14, 2008 from web

to help my ex - who's going to school days and working nights - i agree to take our daughter tues-sat night! ugh! no weekends for a while! 11:33 AM May 14, 2008 from web

stuck using the library computers - and the work computer during break and lunch - to keep up on reading emails and blogs! ugh! 06:46 PM May 13, 2008 from web

CULTURE/SOCIETY: Do You Remember?

This is an email from Ernest T Spoon. He's a little older than me, so he probably remembers this stuff better than me. :) - OlderMusicGeek, but not that old! :)

The perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care. Remember any of these?

Candy cigarettes

Plastic Army Men

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles

Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers

Chief Pontiac Signs

P.F. Fliers

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines

Howdy Doody

45 RPM records

45 rpm spindles

Metal ice cubes trays with levers

Roller-skate keys

Cork pop guns

Marlin Perkins

Drive in Movies

Drive in restaurants

Car Hops

Studebakers

Washtub wringers

The Fuller Brush ManMy dad was a Fuller Brush man!


Sky King

Reel-To-Reel tape recorders

Tinkertoys

Erector Sets

Lincoln Logs

15 cent McDonald hamburgers

5 cent packs of baseball cards

Penny candy

25 cent a gallon gasoline

Jiffy Pop popcorn

5 cent stamps

Gum wrapper chains

5 cent Cokes

Cigarettes for Christmas

Falstaff Beer

Burma Shave signs

Brownie camera

Flash bulbs

TV Test patterns

Old Yeller

Chef Boy-ar-dee

Timmy and Lassie

Ding Dong Avon calling!!

Brylcreem

Aluminum Christmas Trees

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their "grown-up" life . . ..I double-dog-dare-ya!