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Re: Retronyms #126740 04/01/2004 2:17 PM
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803	I might argue with a few of those: Classical music - even if you think modern non-classical is crap there was plenty of music before that which we laughingly refer to as 'serious music' Tap water - Better might be 'well water' but even that's a bit iffy. Rotary phone - just out of curiousity, what did we call the first phone with a mechanism for self selecting the desired number (rather than asking Myrt to connect us to City Hall)?

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Retronyms	AnnaStrophic	04/01/2004 1:41 PM
Re: Retronyms	wwh	04/01/2004 1:52 PM
Re: Retronyms	AnnaStrophic	04/01/2004 2:07 PM
Re: Retronyms	Faldage	04/01/2004 2:17 PM
Re: Retronyms	tsuwm	04/01/2004 2:24 PM
Re: curiousity	Faldage	04/01/2004 2:36 PM
Re: curiousity	tsuwm	04/01/2004 2:49 PM
Re: Retronyms	wwh	04/01/2004 2:37 PM
Re: Retronyms	Jackie	04/01/2004 2:42 PM
Re: web site	Faldage	04/01/2004 2:50 PM
Re: web site	Jackie	04/01/2004 3:05 PM
Re: web site	dxb	04/01/2004 3:09 PM
Re: web site	Faldage	04/01/2004 3:35 PM
Re: web site	AnnaStrophic	04/01/2004 4:06 PM
Re: web site	dxb	04/01/2004 4:07 PM
Re: Retronyms	Faldage	04/01/2004 2:47 PM
Re: Retronyms	musick	04/01/2004 5:05 PM
Re: one ringy-dingy...	Buffalo Shrdlu	04/01/2004 6:13 PM
Re: one ringy-dingy dial thingy	Capfka	04/02/2004 7:37 AM
Re: one ringy-dingy dial thingy	Buffalo Shrdlu	04/02/2004 10:17 AM
Re: one ringy-dingy dial thingy	Faldage	04/02/2004 12:04 PM
Re: one ringy-dingy dial thingy	jheem	04/02/2004 1:47 PM
Re: one ringy-dingy dial thingy	Capfka	04/02/2004 4:15 PM
Re:soi-disant	sjmaxq	04/02/2004 6:37 PM
Re:soi-disant	Capfka	04/02/2004 7:34 PM
Re: soi disant	belMarduk	04/02/2004 8:24 PM

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