SPYZFAN1 said:

Genesia said:

SPYZFAN1 said:

"Bring the player, I'll bring the CD's".

I mean... considering the iPod wasn't around for another 6 or 7 years-ish...

Genesia said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Not too much. I remember in 1989, my friend Karen got a box from her older brother who lived outside of the state. He sent her a video phone. It sent still images on a little 3" black and white screen, but it worked and it was amazing to see, in 1989.

There've been video phones since the 1960s.

True enough. Gene Roddenberry and Stanley Kubrick both foresaw things like that, in large detail.

purplepolitician said:

I thought dropped the dime meant he ratted her out for something, ie "he didn't wanna go to jail alone"

I still don't get the dime reference or what it's about.

TrivialPursuit said:

purplepolitician said:

I thought dropped the dime meant he ratted her out for something, ie "he didn't wanna go to jail alone"

I still don't get the dime reference or what it's about.

He's saying that Danny accused his girlfriend of supplying him with or also being the owner of a dime bag. Presumably Danny was being arrested for being in possesion of drugs and didn't want to go to jail alone, so he said they belonged to his girlfriend.

EnDoRpHn said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I still don't get the dime reference or what it's about.

He's saying that Danny accused his girlfriend of supplying him with or also being the owner of a dime bag. Presumably Danny was being arrested for being in possesion of drugs and didn't want to go to jail alone, so he said they belonged to his girlfriend.

AH, ok. I honestly don't get most drug references, although some I do. I obviously get "dime bag," but "drop a dime" or whatever could mean anything.

Genesia said:

TrivialPursuit said:

Not too much. I remember in 1989, my friend Karen got a box from her older brother who lived outside of the state. He sent her a video phone. It sent still images on a little 3" black and white screen, but it worked and it was amazing to see, in 1989.

There've been video phones since the 1960s.

I'm comparing with, say, facetime. Video phones were more of an expensive novelty back in the day. Now, literally EVERYONE has one.

EnDoRpHn said:

TrivialPursuit said:

I still don't get the dime reference or what it's about.

He's saying that Danny accused his girlfriend of supplying him with or also being the owner of a dime bag. Presumably Danny was being arrested for being in possesion of drugs and didn't want to go to jail alone, so he said they belonged to his girlfriend.

I never looked at it that way, but it makes sense.

TrivialPursuit said:

EnDoRpHn said:

He's saying that Danny accused his girlfriend of supplying him with or also being the owner of a dime bag. Presumably Danny was being arrested for being in possesion of drugs and didn't want to go to jail alone, so he said they belonged to his girlfriend.

AH, ok. I honestly don't get most drug references, although some I do. I obviously get "dime bag," but "drop a dime" or whatever could mean anything.

Droppin' the dime isn't a drug reference. It generically means ratting someone out to the police ... which could be about drugs, but doesn't have to be ... you could rat someone out for writing bad checks, murder, keeping an endangered species in their apartment, etc.

It comes from the idea that if you want to snitch on someone, you're going to it anonymously at a pay phone ... that way if the cops try to trace the call it won't lead back to you. And, as discussed earlier in this thread, pay phones used to cost a dime.

So "dropping the dime" meant you were using a payphone to anonymously call the police and rat someone out.

That's why the line in In a Large Room goes:

Dan dropped the dime on his girlfriend

He didn't want to go to jail alone

Dan figured if he's going to jail his woman should too, so he called the police and snitched on her.

[Edited 12/3/20 19:52pm]

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Wolfie87 said:

Dynasty reference in Kiss.

why is that outdted? it was still on tv in 1986 right?

When Prince re-recorded Kiss for the V2006 Versace Experience he changed the line to "Desperate Housewives".

lurker316 said:

Tax dollars build a plane drop a bomb
Supposedly to keep us all safe from Saddam

Act of God - released 2010

Saddam Hussein - died 2006

phunkymunky said:

Tax dollars build a plane drop a bomb
Supposedly to keep us all safe from Saddam

Act of God - released 2010

Saddam Hussein - died 2006

1987 was a golden age of prince keeping up to date with reading the news.

TrivialPursuit said:

sulls said:

Maybe AOL sound samples in My Computer

Remember that was 1996, and AOL was already out and being used. Everyone was on that or Compuserve in 1996/7 as the internet became more and more prevelant in homes.

....or on Prodigy, where I worked as a (paid) moderator for several years. We pretty much began the onlin non-Usenet experience but were soon taken over by AOL and their free diskettes passed out like candy.
Prince's first online fan convo was on Prodigy, with Moderator Margaret doing the t yping.

So many of those sounds are dated BUT "drop a dime" is still in the vernacular.

From Push:

"Maybe the cartridge you was playin' don't fit in your video game (push)"

The lyric always sounded funny, it's a console, not a video game. That's something my dad would refer to with our Genesis or Super Nintendo. But let's forget all that...CARTRIDGES? Not since the Nintendo 64 was this relevant.

What about this....and maybe now..he knows...what time it is :

"Donald Trump (black version), maybe that's what you need.
A man that fulfills your every wish, your every dream."

[Edited 12/8/20 15:17pm]

"Sex and the City" or is that someone else??

"Maybe the cartridge you was playing don't fit in your video game"

From Push on D&P if I recall correctly.

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

Was prince really using a pager in 2007? (Somewhere here on earth) Was it really going down like the wall in Berlin in 2006? (3121) [Edited 12/3/20 5:20am]

Page also means to summons somoneone.

Pagers in 2007? yes. (In fact, many hospitals still use pagers in 2020.)

Comparing something to the fall of the Berlin wall? yes.

next.

"Throw the records out my window
CDs out the door
Might as well give it to the milkman
But we don't want it no more"

Ouch! My head! Where'd that record come from? Also milkman I used to think it was "got a beef give it to the milkman" I remember being like damn he's clever beef and milk come from cows.

Also in Batdance the whole put the 7'' in the computer thing is hilariously outdated.

But sometimes I like that nostalgia...like the Dynasty quote in Kiss.....those were the days