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09-27-2014, 06:31 AM
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Rivet Master  
1966 26' Overlander
Woodstock
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Airstreem typo
I spelled it that way as this is what I got this morning in an email from Airstream
Wally Bynam's Portrait
In 1956, Airstream moved from their Main Street location in downtown Los Angeles to Norwalk, which was later annexed by the city of Santa Fe Springs...more
OOOPS!!
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09-27-2014, 07:00 AM
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Always learning
1972 29' Ambassador
1962 19' Globetrotter
1951 21' Flying Cloud
Central
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Fire the editor!
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Work is never done, so take time to play!
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10-02-2014, 08:09 PM
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Spellchecker? Have a good story speaking of wordsmithing. Was in a game of scrabble the other day w/my brother and he laid down "Internet" as a 30+ word. My wife says challenge the word - the only dictionary he had was from the 70s. No "internet" Got the word removed. May not get any better than that.
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10-03-2014, 05:47 AM
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King of the Zebra Speedo
Obrien
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnP
Spellchecker? Have a good story speaking of wordsmithing. Was in a game of scrabble the other day w/my brother and he laid down "Internet" as a 30+ word. My wife says challenge the word - the only dictionary he had was from the 70s. No "internet" Got the word removed. May not get any better than that.
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He should have Googled it...
-Red
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10-03-2014, 05:50 AM
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Rules of scrabble. Host provides dictionary.
Sent from my iPhone using Airstream Forums
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10-03-2014, 05:53 AM
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King of the Zebra Speedo
Obrien
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That was a shot at a joke, with the irony being that he couldn't use Google to define the word "internet"...
-Red, not as funny as he thinks he is...
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10-03-2014, 05:54 AM
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Good one!
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10-03-2014, 07:27 AM
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King of the Zebra Speedo
Obrien
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Now I've had to stop and think... What words or phrases didn't even exist 40 years ago, the year my Airstream, was made?
First one I think of is: Right click on...
-Red
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10-03-2014, 07:40 AM
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Figment of My Imagination
2012 Interstate Coach
From All Over
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Before there was an Internet, if you didn't know the meaning of the word "dictionary" where would you have looked it up? 
But to continue Panama Red's theme of things that didn't exist 40 years ago…
Laptops, e-mail, mobile phones, GPS, MRI, LEDs, LCD television screens, photovoltaic solar panels, biodiesel, bar codes, ATMs…
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10-03-2014, 10:27 AM
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Rivet Master
2015 25' FB Eddie Bauer
2013 25' FB Eddie Bauer
2012 20' Flying Cloud
Small Town
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Panama Red
Now I've had to stop and think... What words or phrases didn't even exist 40 years ago, the year my Airstream, was made?
First one I think of is: Right click on...
-Red
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Right on, man!
Errrr... write on!
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10-03-2014, 11:20 AM
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King of the Zebra Speedo
Obrien
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mefly2
Right on, man!
Errrr... write on!
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I read that in a Tommy Chong voice...
-Red
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10-03-2014, 12:21 PM
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Rivet Master
1966 22' Safari
Hilltop Lakes
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Swipe
Then there's the language itself. Anyone remember when swipe meant steal?
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10-03-2014, 12:40 PM
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Figment of My Imagination
2012 Interstate Coach
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Or when you gave, instead of gifting?
But on the other hand, there are still some holdover phrases that have outlived their origins. We still "dial" a telephone even though many people today have never seen a roatary-dial telephone outside of an old movie.
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10-03-2014, 12:47 PM
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King of the Zebra Speedo
Obrien
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I still say "album" every time someone brings out a new... well, what do you call it now that "CD" is passé?
-Red
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10-03-2014, 02:42 PM
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2 Rivet Member
1974 31' Sovereign
1978 28' Argosy 28
Edmonds
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Some things never change! Even on Office 2013, if you look at the ribbon on a word document, the icon to "save" a document is a still a floppy disc! An item that also didn't exist 40 years ago. ;-)
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10-03-2014, 04:07 PM
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Rivet Master
2012 25' FB Eddie Bauer
Vintage Kin Owner
Virginia Beach
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The last pay phones I remember cost a quarter, yet when one is ratted out to the police it's still "drop a dime on"
Nuke - meant war, not warm in the microwave
Groovy - has fortunately gone the way of the dodo
Boondocks - had a nasty overtone of "ghetto" not into the wilds of nature
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10-03-2014, 04:39 PM
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Rivet Master
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Protagonist
Before there was an Internet, if you didn't know the meaning of the word "dictionary" where would you have looked it up?
But to continue Panama Red's theme of things that didn't exist 40 years ago…
Laptops, e-mail, mobile phones, GPS, MRI, LEDs, LCD television screens, photovoltaic solar panels, biodiesel, bar codes, ATMs… |
A couple of those actually are 40 years old. Bar Codes and ATMs have both been around that long.
-old guy
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