“Sorry, I got to return this video”
“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”
“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”
“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”
“Can I borrow that VHS?”
“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”
“Do you know where a phone is?”
It’s 2004
Surly there were always people who say things like “wow, I can’t believe this thing is happening it’s like it’s 2004” or something.
“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
Nobody referred to videos as “VHS” unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them “videos” and “tapes” or “videotape.”
for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?
That movie just came out on video.
Be kind, rewind your videotape.
I was born in the late 80’s by the time Betamax had died out so VHS was the de facto only video tape format in wide use, Hi-8 existed but was only used in the airlines despite being smaller and better. So movie previews would talk about “Coming soon to own on video” or people would say “I’ve got it on tape.” It would feel weirdly early 80’s to specify…until late in the DVD era and into blu-ray when VHS was a truly dead format and people started calling it that again.
Similarly, I never heard anyone pronounce “SNES” as a one letter word until at least the Gamecube era; it was the Super Nintendo at the time.
“No body ever got fired for choosing IBM”
I ironically said that when I was working for IBM.
They don’t actually fire, they do “performance improvement plans”.
Ah yeah, the classic PIP’d manoever. I worked with a few good guys who got fired without cause PIP’d and let go even though their performance was fine
I can’t believe gas is over $2 a gallon now.
