Steve Rubel has posted an interesting series of images illustrating ten common phrases that are fading from use. Sayings such as “he sounds like a broken record”, and “she’s a walking encyclopedia” may have once been common cliches, but as the technology that they’re based on disappears from our life the phrases are left standing as a strange, antiquated cultural remnant.
See the rest of them here.
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Dan, I’ll give you a ring about this later…or should I give you a ringtone later?
November 19th, 2009 at 11:18 am