“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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    21 days ago

    “Can I borrow that VHS?”

    20 years ago it would have been DVDs. But even before that, we didn’t call them "VHS"es. We called them tapes, or video tapes if we wanted to distinguish from audio tapes.

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      21 days ago

      That might be a regional thing. 20 years ago I was calling them vhs’ living in Nevada but idk about others.

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      21 days ago

      I distinctly remember tapes, video tapes, video cassette, and VHS all being things we would say it for