If you were born after the year 2000 can you still do analog?

Ellen Degeneres tests an intelligent 17 year if she can (1) fold a map, (2) look up something in the yellow pages, and (3) use a rotary phone.

Who could ever fold one of those maps.
The phone book and phone were
embarrassing, she was dialing it like
a 4 year old would. I can't believe
someone who sounds fairly smart
would be that ignorant. Most movies
before 1965 that was about the
20th century has phone dialing
in it, she never saw one of them?

I've fought map folding before. But I am a map guy, good ones are hard to find anymore. Really hard to locate a well printed Atlas or map.

Ever wear a hole through one at a fold and keep the map as long as you can and continue using it?

Quote: Evenbob

Who could ever fold one of those maps.
The phone book and phone were
embarrassing, she was dialing it like
a 4 year old would. I can't believe
someone who sounds fairly smart
would be that ignorant. Most movies
before 1965 that was about the
20th century has phone dialing
in it, she never saw one of them?

She was looking for a Car Service that's why she failed. Golden Muffler was a NAME but a 17 year old would think it was a car service. I had a Customer that had a BRANDNAME as a NAME. Her name was something like Mercedes Benz. Truth is stranger than Fiction. I had an 18 year old Coworker ask what stamps were used for. Understandable since he was born in 2001 and in 2001 Email was already beginning to take over snail mail, but our older Coworker(She's in her 40's)was a bit flabbergasted that he didn't know that stamps were used to send mail physically.

Quote: Evenbob

Most movies before 1965 that was about the 20th century has phone dialing in it, she never saw one of them?

Touch tone dialing was formally introduced on 18 November 1963, but you still had to make a connection to the dial tone while you were entering the digits. The teenager was used to entering the number first , and then hitting TALK. It never occurred to her to pick up the handset.

Ellen and Portia were married on August 2008. I wonder if that teenager remembers when two same sex people couldn't get married.

Quote: Pacomartin

Touch tone dialing was formally introduced on 18 November 1963,

I didn't get a push button phone till the
late 70's, why get rid of dial phones that
still worked. Also, PB service wasn't in
this area till the 70's, we had a party
line till 1970. Private lines were unavailable.

Older TV Sitcoms where Characters were SO excited to get their own private phone lines for landline phones eem laughably outdated nowadays with cellphones being so abundant, but say in the 80's and 90's, having your own private phone line for your landline was a big deal.

Quote: Pacomartin

Touch tone dialing was formally introduced on 18 November 1963, but you still had to make a connection to the dial tone while you were entering the digits. The teenager was used to entering the number first , and then hitting TALK. It never occurred to her to pick up the handset.

Ellen and Portia were married on August 2008. I wonder if that teenager remembers when two same sex people couldn't get married.

She would have only been like 6 when Gay Marriage was officially legalized but in the 80's, Gays were able to have Commitment Ceremonies which was a weaker version of straight marriage.

Ellen has a bunch of them. They're
all funny and sad.



This one is just embarrassing for the girl.

Quote: Evenbob

This one is just embarrassing for the girl.

The baby-boomer immediately knew this one, which shows you what is happening in our culture.


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