“Sorry, I got to return this video”

“Mike? I love that guy, I got him on speed dial”

“Do you have any quarters for a phone?”

“Bill Cosby really is America’s dad”

“Can I borrow that VHS?”

“Sorry, I can’t come. My favourite show is on”

“Do you know where a phone is?”

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    “Sorry. I have to return some video tapes” gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.

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    “Osama Bin who?” And in a similar vein, “Jihad? That’s a Dune reference, right?”

    “I’ll cash in on my Beanie Baby investment when it’s time to pay for my kid’s college tuition.”

    “The internet is just a fad.”

    “I’m so excited for the next The Matrix sequel.”

    “Two bedrooms and a walk-out basement. $300 a month rent.”

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      Hah! Not those exact words but Angela Merkel in 2007: “The Internet is new territory for all of us”.

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    “Sorry, I got to return this video”

    You say that, although it’s pretty close to the recurring joke in American Psycho, so if you’re lenient this kind of sentence was said in this comm only days ago. https://lemmy.ml/post/24140732/15784014

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    “Sorry, I got to return this video”

    There is a video rental place in town here.

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        It is also a cigarette shop now. I have not been in there since it was the original owners back in the 90s.

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    ur-gir₁₅-re ec₂-dam-ce₃ in-kur₉-ma

    nij₂ na-me igi nu-mu-un-du₈

    ne-en jal₂ taka₄-en-e-ce

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    I vividly remember… I was in the office and one of my coworkers comes up to me with a shit eating grin on his face - like he had something he wanted to share…

    He said, “Have you ever heard of Bitcoin?” I said, “No…” He explained (sort of) what he thought it was, but sounded more like an investment opportunity (blah blah blah) less than 10 cents per… I didn’t bite.

    Lets just say this didn’t age well for me, lmao.

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      When I first read about Bitcoins, my takeaway was it was some kind of credits you could earn by using your unused use CPU cycles, but it wasn’t a sure thing, it’s a lottery, you have a chance to earn a credit (a “coin”) every few minutes, as long as you keep donating your CPU cycles. (This was before gpu mining was a thing). I tried it, and after 3 days I had earned 3 coins, but then I looked into the value, and they were only worth about 10c each. That’s less than the electricity it took to earn them. And you couldn’t spend them anywhere, except that one pizza place, where it cost a few thousand coins for a pizza. There weren’t even any exchanges to convert them to real currency if you wanted to.

      I tried to find my coins years later, (when Bitcoins got to $2000 each), but I couldn’t find the old hard drive the wallet was on.

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        I had a very similar experience. Read about it. Mined a couple coins just to try it. Said “Well that’ll never go anywhere”. I think i still had them years later but by the time i remembered i couldn’t find where the wallet ended to. I think it’s gone, now.

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      Good job staying away from the Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin is an investment in the same way art is - it’s only valuable if you can find another schmuck who will pay you for it.

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    My wife and I had to struggle to remember the word “hook” in the context of “the phone is off the hook”.

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      A few year back, I took my daughter to an urgent care clinic. She was around 2 or 3 years old. While in the waiting room their office phone rang and my daughter jumped and went, “What was that?” because she had never heard a landline ring before.