Things I never thought would disappear:
wool socks
canned tomatoes (You can get what we used to call "salad tomatoes",
but not tomatoes that are simply canned.)
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Road maps.
User manuals. Nowadays, the time to go obsolete is about half the
time it takes to write a halfway-decent manual.
Mattresses that it's possible to tuck a sheet under.
Mattresses that it's possible to tuck a sheet under.
I think non-self adhesive postage stamps are an endangered species.
Paperback books the size and shape of paperback books
Newspapers. Replaced by press-release papers that are fading fast.
The World Wide Web. Nodes are still around, but one can't crawl
from one to another to another.
My brother still subscribes to The Washington Post. The only change
is that it's delivered by an adult in a car, not by a child on a
bike.
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Also, in the UK we have letter delivery slots in the front door and
the idea is that the delivery person puts the paper through the
slot. The flap on my slot is a bit stiff and occasionally, the
paper is left on the doorstep. One morning a few months ago, there
was a torrential thunderstorm between the paper being delivered and
me getting up. The paper was reduced to a mass of papier-m\342ch\351.
Things I never thought would disappear:
Stockings shaped to the leg
wool socks
unbleached muslin
plain cream
canned tomatoes (You can get what we used to call "salad tomatoes",
but not tomatoes that are simply canned.)
There's not even a retronym for petroleum jelly, which has been
replaced by white petroleum jelly (What's now called "white petroleum
jelly" didn't even exist, at least not where laymen could see it.)
Paperback books the size and shape of paperback books
Newspapers. Replaced by press-release papers that are fading fast.
Old newspapers as a cheap, ubiquitous, and inexhaustable resource for
every purpose.
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Road maps.
Street signs are at risk of heading for the endangered list. I got
very lost after one was rotated ninety degrees and nobody bothered to
twist it back.
User manuals. Nowadays, the time to go obsolete is about half the
time it takes to write a halfway-decent manual.
The World Wide Web. Nodes are still around, but one can't crawl from
one to another to another.
Mattresses that it's possible to tuck a sheet under.
Beds that one can sit on.
Carpet samples
We've had variegated stamps for so long I'd almost forgotten that the
Penny Black existed!
In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>, >jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them. There are >commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones. King Charles >started appearing on stamps last year.
Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>, >>jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them. There are >>commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones. King Charles >>started appearing on stamps last year.
The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war
putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion. Does >anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing
of Cambodia?
The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war
putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion. Does anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing
of Cambodia?
My brother's is left in the driveway. It's enclosed in a plastic bag.
If rain is expected, it's double-bagged. Some rain has leaked into
it, but that's rare.
FWIW, the MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION, which had been
coming in a manila envelope, now comes naked, with an address label
on the back. (Thank Ghod it's on the back.)
Ours just arrived a few days ago. It was the Summer issue. Yours
may take longer since you're in the UK.
Paul Dormer <prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk> wrote:
In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>,
jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them. There are
commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones. King Charles
started appearing on stamps last year.
The US ones just have a flag on them, but thanks to the Vietnam war
putting a flag on something is now expressing a political opinion. Does anyone still put them on upside-down as a protest against the bombing
of Cambodia?
--scott
In article <95lggjdsbkjgknic0e49dodeemhq3je3qc@4ax.com>, jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid (Joy Beeson) wrote:
Definitive stamps that allowed one to mail a letter without affixing
an opinion. I didn't even know that plain, ordinary not-special
stamps *had* a name.
Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on them. There are commemorative stamps but you can still get the plain ones. King Charles started appearing on stamps last year.
On 10/11/2024 3:58 AM, Paul Dormer wrote:
Default stamps in the UK just have the monarch's head on
them. There are commemorative stamps but you can still get
the plain ones. King Charles started appearing on stamps
last year.
Most of the generic American first class stamps I've seen for
the last few decades have had American flags on them. They
change the design slightly when the postage rates change.
I'm missing an issue of Analog from earlier in the year.
Missing in the post, it seems.
And I'm missing an issue of Analog from earlier in the year. Missing
in
the post, it seems. They have said a replacement has been sent, but
that
was some months ago.
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