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fflo ([personal profile] fflo) wrote2018-09-03 10:59 am
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[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2018-09-04 06:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I just realized there was a whole class of driving humor in the 1960's that I just never see anymore. Maybe it's about a technology that has freshly become ubiquitous. Kinda like them newfangled Cellular teleophones, which seem to be dropping out the the humor spotlight now.

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2018-09-04 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I have several images in the hopper of the early days of automobiles and postcardly noting of the newness of that phenom, and the culture around it. Will probably have a week of those soon-ish, here on the (speaking of quick-fading newfangledarity) the World Wide Web.

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2018-09-04 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Newfangledarity is a nice word. But I first read it as "newfangularity."

[identity profile] fflo.livejournal.com 2018-09-05 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like the singularity, but the newest fashion thereof?

[identity profile] peteralway.livejournal.com 2018-09-05 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
The best part of "newfangled" is how archaic it sounds. As, by extension, does newfangularity. And maybe it's what they used to call the singularity.
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