“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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“Call me after 9. I ran out of minutes.”
“Jared from Subway is such an inspiration!”
“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.”
nobody referred to videos as “VHS” unless they were explicitly trying to distinguish the medium from betamax. They just called them “videos” and “tapes” or “videotape.”
for example: Hey can I borrow that tape?
That movie just came out on video.
Be kind, rewind your videotape.
Conversely, I still sometimes refer to DVDs, Blu Rays and even streaming media as “videos”.
Which is both anachronistic, but also technically correct.
“No body ever got fired for choosing IBM”
“We need to get WMDs out of Saddam’s hands”
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“America will not abide Nazism.”
“What do you think about John Kerry?”
“I’m excited for what the future has in store for me.”
Be kind, rewind.
Be awkward, fast-forward.
Be groovy, steal the movie.
Let me check the answering machine.
“Sorry, I got to return this video”
2004 is when the Blockbuster video rental chain was at its peak (cite), and VHS was still in wide use at the time having only been surpassed by DVD rentals a year earlier. Speed dial was also still a thing then, payphones still exist today, and, although complaints were filed against Bill Cosby much earlier the public wasn’t widely aware of them until 2014.
How about “John Kerry is the candidate who can prevent a second Bush term” ?
It’s weird how slow things really are. In 2006 you could have rented a VHS from blockbuster and gone home and upload it to YouTube.
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I think you’ll still need specialized equipment to hookup a VHS machine to a computer and digitize it.
“I can’t believe you didn’t put me in your top 8 on Myspace!!”
Also, “w00t!!”
… People don’t say “w00t”?
Only lol survived
That’s the saddest news I’ve ever received.
Hey, I live down the steeet from the best remaining video rental store (Movie Madness in Portland, OR). Have run down to return videos pretty often this year!
VHS?
Those, and dvd, bluray, some other fancier format. They have way more titles than any blockbuster ever did. Good place to have around ( it’s a nonprofit, so should be around in future).
Wassuuuuuuuupppp!
