> These are possible answers to the eternal question, "What is that thing, Mama?"
> It's an iron for removing wrinkles from clothes.
> It's a rotary dial telephone.
> A typewriter.
> It was called a Ford Pinto.
> That's a paddle. They were used in schools.
> A crank. They used them to start the car.
> A manual choke. They used them to start the car.
> That's a half dollar. It was a big coin worth two quarters.
> That's a dollar coin. Some have a lady named Susan on the front and some have a famous Indian guide. Nobody uses them.
> That's an old-fashioned lawn mower. You had to walk along behind it and push.
> A milk stool.
> A coal bucket.
> A book. People used to read them before computers and television.
> An intercity bus.
> A streetcar.
> A fountain pen.
> A draft card. You don't want to know about that.
> That's a shovel. They used to dig ditches with them before back-hoes were invented.
> A vacuum tube.
> A hoe. They used to use them in the garden before rototillers were invented.
> Howard

More possible answers:
A mouse. People used it to move around on the computer.
A 17-inch monitor.
A cordless telephone.
A casette tape.
A key. In order to get into our house, we had to have one of those.
A beanie baby. A lot of people made a lot of fuss over those things.
A newspaper. I used to get one delivered to my front door every morning.
A postage stamp. We had to lick the back to make it stick to the envelope.
That is how we used to write the date before 2000 rolled around.
A car with no power steering
That's what Rinkworks USED to look like!

Ell"I wonder if Post-Its will ever become archaic"myruh