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

[butterflydreaming]

Speaking of trailers, movie trailers (aka previews) come before the movie now.

With so many devices going to a touch screen or being motion sensitive (like lights, faucets, and XBox Kinect), will "pushing your buttons" become as anachronistic as the Mix Tape?

[sid]

I never would have thought of "pushing your buttons"! I wonder how long that sayings been around, now that I'm thinking about it. It must be fairly modern.