It chattered, and it was so large that it took up an entire small room, which was without windows. We would venture in, observe it and scurry away until the noise stopped.
That's really something about the censorship by the manager. I guess he got the real dirt on people, or maybe something innocuous but not newsworthy.
Hee, yes, our ideas are shaped by old movies' phrases: "Stop the presses!" "Hold that wire!" so dramatic announcements are entire expected when one works in a newsroom.
"Hee, yes, our ideas are shaped by old movies' phrases: "Stop the presses!" "Hold that wire!" so dramatic announcements are entire expected when one works in a newsroom."
Even though it sounds like something Grandpa Simpson would say, "Ameche" became a slang term for telephone for a couple of years because Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in a 1939 biopic. It didn't become a lasting part of the vernacular, but it popped up in dialog in a few movies from that era.
True! Another 30's term for phone is 'blower' and that one has not made it to '15. Wonder why? :)
And I've found that watching films from the 40's and 50's spouting near-incomprrehensible dialogue is more relatable to '15 than the very early talkies, such as extremely creaky '29 - '31 films. When Joan Blondell says, "Don't be sil", we know she means 'silly' but I'll wager we've never heard anyone in our lifetimes say that.
There was a prank, maybe apocryphal, where someone would call offices claiming to be from Bell Telephone and say they were going to blow air through the lines to clear out dust and mites. So you were instructed to unscrew the mouthpiece and leave it on some paper towels to catch all the dust.
A side effect of stirring up the public in this manner comes when an authentic story is dismissed as a prank, or when a superfluous story is taken as legitimate.
A 1950 short story by Cyril M. Kornbluth, titled "The Silly Season", makes use of this concept by having invading aliens stage one strange but harmless event after another. All are duly reported by the newspapers until the public is bored with them, and when a final "strange event" occurs, no one is prepared to accept it as an invasion until it is too late…
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That's really something about the censorship by the manager. I guess he got the real dirt on people, or maybe something innocuous but not newsworthy.
Hee, yes, our ideas are shaped by old movies' phrases: "Stop the presses!" "Hold that wire!" so dramatic announcements are entire expected when one works in a newsroom.
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Even though it sounds like something Grandpa Simpson would say, "Ameche" became a slang term for telephone for a couple of years because Don Ameche played Alexander Graham Bell in a 1939 biopic. It didn't become a lasting part of the vernacular, but it popped up in dialog in a few movies from that era.
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And I've found that watching films from the 40's and 50's spouting near-incomprrehensible dialogue is more relatable to '15 than the very early talkies, such as extremely creaky '29 - '31 films. When Joan Blondell says, "Don't be sil", we know she means 'silly' but I'll wager we've never heard anyone in our lifetimes say that.
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Reportedly, many fell for this...
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A side effect of stirring up the public in this manner comes when
an authentic story is dismissed as a prank, or when a superfluous
story is taken as legitimate.
A 1950 short story by Cyril M. Kornbluth, titled "The Silly
Season", makes use of this concept by having invading aliens
stage one strange but harmless event after another. All are duly
reported by the newspapers until the public is bored with them,
and when a final "strange event" occurs, no one is prepared to
accept it as an invasion until it is too late…
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