''Be Kind, Rewind'' and 9 Other Phrases That Are Now Irrelevant

Publish date: 2020-07-27

Let's all venture back to a simpler time, when courting a woman was still something that happened and the only people who owned cell phones were probably astronauts. Many great things came from such a time: Learning how to actually use an encyclopedia, how to look up your friend's phone number in the Yellow Pages, how to actually speak on the telephone like a normal human being, etc.

And we still accidentally use some of the iconic phrases of that time, even though they make absolutely no sense anymore. Here are 10 examples:

1. "Be Kind, Please Rewind"

Where you'd hear it: Your local Blockbuster employee scolding you for returning your VHS without rolling the tape back to the beginning.
Why it's useless now: Because, sadly, we do not use VHS tapes any more. Instead, we have DVDs that don't let you fast forward through previews and sometimes don't work at all, because you've scratched the living s--t out of it. Still, we use the term "rewind," but its literal meaning is lost. (Also, Blockbuster is dead and gone.)

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