"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?"
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.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn't widely aware of them until 2014.
How about "John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term" ?
It's weird how slow things really are. In 2006 you could have rented a VHS from blockbuster and gone home and upload it to YouTube.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
You say that, although it's pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you're lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014
I think a lot of these were still being said 20 years ago. People were using Netflix by mail and Redbox in the last 20 years.
Lots of people still had brick phones by Nokia, etc which had "speed dial". You would hold 1 for voicemail but could program 2-9 for other numbers.
Lost season 1 premiered in 2004 and you better believe people made plans around it's schedule to watch it.
Can you turn the antenna to ___ insert satellite name ___ ?
For context
where I grew up, almost every immigrant houshold had a satellite antenna, to watch channels across the world. Since my parents were immigrants, we had to turn the antenna each time we wanted to watch either local news or news from our country of origin.
I vividly remember... I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share...
He said, "Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?" I said, "No..." He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per... I didn't bite.
Lets just say this didn't age well for me, lmao.
"Don't call my home phone, I'll be out seeing the new Matrix so you can just page me instead."
There's a disturbing number of places that still use fax machines. They won't let you scan things and send it via e-mail, it has to be faxed. I deal with it a lot filling out my medical paperwork.
