BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years

Subject: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:32 PM

Just opened a bottle of wine. Most of the wine bottles these days are now screw tops. However this one had a cork.
I then thought, will the corkscrew be extinct in 10 years time.

Any other things that you use regularly that probably won't be around in 10 years time. I don't mean the wife or husband :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:39 PM

Me. The dogs. The Bush administration. My computer.

The only one of the above that I presently have no use for, I guess, would be the Bush administration.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:45 PM

Well I suppose the computer is the only thing you use isn't it Little Hawk

>>The dogs. The Bush administration<< Don't they use you ?

>>Me<< Well I hope not Little Hawk

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:51 PM

In the interests of cultural history being documented, it must be asked if you applied the "Red Neck Test for Good Wine" and counted the threads on the cap.

I'm told that three turns or more is a sure indication of "superior wine." (One shouldn't ask "superior to WHAT.")

I doubt, however, that the cork will disappear until the last of the yuppies is gone, as it permits a higher price (usually) based on "elitism" or some such thing that can be advertised profitably.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 04:55 PM

I get about 10 turns on mine John :-)
Les

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:11 PM

Me.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:16 PM

polar bears? Honey bees?

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:35 PM

Honey bees is a big worry Ebbie
Les

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Bee
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:38 PM

Honeybees were the first thing I thought of.

WWI veterans, I'm afraid.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:42 PM

Does anybody think that sex will be xtinct in 10 years time.

Will women be able to take a pill to become pregnant and therefore have no need for men ?

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:47 PM

They're silly women if so! Who says it's just for getting preggers?!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: jacqui.c
Date: 05 May 07 - 05:51 PM

Gawd - I hope not Les! Who would want to replace sex with a pill! No-one in their right mind IMHO.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:10 PM

An awful lot more WW2 veterans, too.

The US as the world's technology leader (whoops! that's already happened).

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: skipy
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:15 PM

Some of mt dresses may have to go!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:15 PM

Only joking Katlaughing & Jacqui :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Amos
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:19 PM

That's all right -- there will be WW 3 veterans to fill their places.

It is perfectly possible that this whole computer business -- keyboards, mouse, monitor -- will be extinct and your present machine will -- if you have kept it -- be something of a model T, elicit remarks of, "How very quaint!".

It is also possible, though less likely, that the current automobile as w eknow it will have gone the way of the trolly and the dodo bird.

Black bakelite telphones and twisted-pair phone networkd.

Phone booths.

Possibly, malls.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:32 PM

Common sense and good manners amongst the general populace... if not eroded already.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:34 PM

George Papavgeris did a song on that last night at my club. So true Gnu

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:45 PM

I wish it would be smoking tobacco, but it will take longer than 10 years.

Maybe the incandescent light bulb?

Frogs seem to be disappearing. Unfortunately, polar bears may also be gone.

Alice

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:50 PM

Me, too, on the tobacco thing, Alice!

Thanks, Villan...quite a scare there for a moment.**bg**

My dad's friend,Floyd Coleman reckons he'll probably be the last World War II vet in the USA, as he is 93 and still does not have to take ANY medicines, still restores vintage cars and lives a very active life. I hope he's still around in ten years.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:52 PM

The light bulb will be gone. Canada just banned the sale of them... 2012.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:55 PM

What will replace it Gnu?

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:58 PM

Compact flourescent light bulbs.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 06:59 PM

Is that a fact Alice ?

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:01 PM

just guessing

alice

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:03 PM

What I meant is, compact flourescent light bulbs will replace incandescent light bulbs.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:11 PM

Oh OK

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:37 PM

Bologna. We are going back to candles.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:46 PM

Too bad the assholes can't ban tobacco.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:48 PM

There are many things it would be nice to have banned: the friggin' word 'latte' comes to mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:52 PM

Oh, yeah, and analog television, which really makes me mad, because what landfill do they think all the old tv's will go in, or do they just expect them to magically disappear in thin air.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Bobert
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:56 PM

1. Republicans

2. SUV's

3. Democracy

4. Big Macs

5. Mom 'n Pop stores

6. Snail Darters (who cares???... I hate snail darters...)

7. Gasoline (but, hey, we won't have 24/7 NASCAR on TV anymore...)

8. Dumb people (Yes, after the Iraq war ends in 2017 Congress will pass a law making dumness a criminal offense and so dumb people will seek out un-dumbness correspondnece courses and become upstanding Menza folk)

9. Arithmatic (way over due)

10. PC's (Yup, rather than waste time sittin' in front of a computer everyone will have "implants" so all you have to do is think of something and it will turn into a Google type search and all the possibilites will come into you mind... You know, like Orwell might have said if he ahd thought of it...)

Thats' my Top 10...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: gnu
Date: 05 May 07 - 07:59 PM

PC's and the internet may actually save this planet... by bringing people together and.... nah, that'll never work.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 May 07 - 08:22 PM

The problem with bringing people together is that they don't get along very well... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 07 - 08:25 PM

LOLOL

GOOD one, LH.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 May 07 - 08:45 PM

What intrigues me is the absolute knowledge that we do not as yet have a clue as to what is just around the bend...

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 May 07 - 08:49 PM

If by a cork you mean a stopper made of cork, then corks have all but disappeared already. Real cork, I have read, harbors a mold that used to ruin a couple of percent of all the wine that was bottled. That is a pretty heavy tax to pay for tradition. All the wine I have bought recently is stoppered with some kind of plastic. I would be delighted if it moved on to screw caps, but so far that is a sign of quality not even up to my very modest taste.

Paper bank checks are disappearing pretty fast. I gather they are already very rare in Europe.

A couple of kluges that ought to disappear but are not likely to do so in 10 yr are the reciprocating engine and the lead-acid battery.

I wonder about the Internet. So far it has been defended successfully against malice & stupidity, but there is no guarantee that some fatal flaw won't turn up.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Peace
Date: 05 May 07 - 08:49 PM

CCR did.

UP AROUND THE BEND Lyrics
Artist(Band):Creedence Clearwater Revival

There's a place up ahead and I'm goin' just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away if you're goin', leave the sinkin' ship behind.

CHORUS:
Come on the risin' wind, we're goin' up around the bend.

Ooh!
Bring a song and a smile for the banjo, better get while the gettin's good,
Hitch a ride to the end of the highway where the neons turn to wood.

CHORUS

Oooh!
You can ponder perpetual motion, fix your mind on a crystal day,
Always time for a good conversation, there's an ear for what you say.

CHORUS
Yeah!

Oooh!
Catch a ride to the end of the highway and we'll meet by the big red tree,
There's a place up ahead and I'm goin', come along, come along with me.

CHORUS

Yeah!
Do do doo do...

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 05 May 07 - 09:19 PM

Salt licks

Urinal mints

Size XXL Condoms

Daisy Dukes

Cryslers, GM, Ford

Dollar stores (replaced by 10 dollar stores)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 May 07 - 09:34 PM

SUVs and similar sized things, except where needed for business.

Gas (petrol) for less than US$5.00 per US gallon in the US. (Heck, it might disappear entirely.)

Plastic throwaway bottles, etc. -- they'll be too valuable when recycled.

Neocons in the US.

Again in the US, a reliance upon government to solve all the problems -- people have already started to realize that passing a law or making a program doesn't automatically solve a problem or cure anything except bureaucratic unemployment.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Alice
Date: 05 May 07 - 09:35 PM

pennies

lickable postage stamps

Glaciers in Glacier National Park

Penguins

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Beer
Date: 05 May 07 - 09:46 PM

The Loon.
Did you know that the Loon is not considered a "bird" or a "water fowl"? It is a specie of it's own. It also has solid bone which birds/waterfowl do not have. We in North America have all four species. It is considered to be prehistoric of over 60 millions years, and what "God" has created is expected to become extinct in less that 25 years because of our polluted lakes from acid rain etc. The Loon's diet is fish.
I am sharing this information with you from an article which I read about 10 years ago and has stuck with me. If what was said is true I guess the "Loon" now only has about 10 years before they are extinct.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Mickey191
Date: 06 May 07 - 12:50 AM

I haven't seen a lickable stamp in yrs. Round here they're selfstick.

Please-what is a urinal mint? I've never seen that flavor.

Video stores. Libraries, I fear. Just built a new one in my neighborhood & it's always empty. Reading for pleasure or knowledge seems to have gone by the wayside. Shame!

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Rasener
Date: 06 May 07 - 01:26 AM

>>10. PC's (Yup, rather than waste time sittin' in front of a computer everyone will have "implants" so all you have to do is think of something and it will turn into a Google type search and all the possibilites will come into you mind...<<

Great for exams then Bobert :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Gurney
Date: 06 May 07 - 01:26 AM

Most of the large predators in the world, and maybe all the large animals in the world, if witch-doctors keep prescribing bear gall, and tiger extracts, and rhino horn. Stuff like that.

Railways. But they'll be back when the fossil fuel runs out. Don't buy a house built on an ex-railway line.

Trade-unionists, if governments get their way.

Leather shoes, except for rich people.

Lots of fish species.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: ard mhacha
Date: 06 May 07 - 06:46 AM

If someone in the mid 1940s had suggested TB would be almost eliminated by the mid 1950s, they wouldn`t have had many backers, so how about the disappearance of cancer within the next 10 years, hopefully ,true.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 May 07 - 07:30 AM

"compact flourescent light bulbs will replace incandescent light bulbs."

This is of course a fallacy - as CFLs are just not suitable for many applications - they cannot be dimmed easily for one.

Also they cost far more in expensive resources to make (part of the reason why they cost more to buy) and if used inappropriately - as in cases where they are switched on and off for short periods of time - their life is very short, even shorter than incandescants - thus they create far more 'greenhouse problem'.

Also they can generate massive RFI...

Since the Aussie pollies thought up this clanger (now being copied by other countries!), the Aussie Technical Magazine Silicon Chip has run some more real technical info on the matter...

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: gnu
Date: 06 May 07 - 08:33 AM

RFI? Radio frequency interference?

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Donuel
Date: 06 May 07 - 09:46 AM

The term Neocon which is essentially the modern day equivalent of Nazi with an extra syllable.

Subject: RE: BS: Things that may be extinct in 10 years
From: Amos
Date: 06 May 07 - 10:00 AM

Please-what is a urinal mint? I've never seen that flavor.

It's a cake of crystallized disinfectant and deodorant chemicals that is usually disc-shaped, and is placed in men's urinals to minimize odor and bacteria. It gradfually wears down as the urinal is used, and is then replaced with a new one.

A