A timely thought

[sid]

As the days of analog timepieces fade into history, will the directions "Turn clockwise to tighten" soon lose all meaning?

Will the expression persist, complete with scholarly footnotes and diagrams?

What could possibly replace it?

Any youngsters out there who can give a current status report?

And, just for fun, what other words or phrases can you think of that belong to the past but live on in the present? (It's late, and all I can think of right now is "Hold your horses!")

Comments

[princessofgeeks]

oh, certainly. but i am old enough to remember when we ALMOST went metric in the seventies. so close and yet so far....

i'll never learn dvorak now; it's too late for me. but if the whole country decided to teach fourth graders dvorak only? in a generation it would be done.

[sid]

I never could grasp metric, so I was relieved when that plan fell apart. Stubborn!America iz stubborn.

[catspaw]

I'm still not metric - I have to ask always, 'what's 500 g really?' I'm thankful that I'm not alone: it's still qutie possible, over here, to walk into a wood yard and ask for 2 metres of 2 by 4 ;-) And we always, *always* do cold in Centigrade and hot in Fahrenheit, what's with that?

[sid]

You're a very confused people, aren't you? :-D

[catspaw]

We prefer to think of it as 'ploughing our own furrow' ;-)