While pop culture itself is full of colloquialisms, catch phrases, social niceties and even a fair share of vulgarities, it seems that many of us repeat, verbatim, the things that we heard our parents say. Many of these are still relevant today, but a good lot of the clichés we use today have no meaning to our children.
Take for example: “Don’t count your chicks before they hatch.” How many people do you know today who actually raise chickens from eggs? I wonder if people actually know what a doornail is, let alone how dead it is. Do you know what it means to wear your heart on your sleeve? How about its origin?
So my question to you is, can you think of any idioms that needs to be updated for the digital age? I’ll start of with one that I coined last week, add in some new ones a few other GeekDads thought up and let you take it from there.
- Hindsight is always 1080p.
- One #hashtag does not a trending topic make.
- Too many hosts spoil the podcast.
- That’s a hard act to unfollow.
- 140 characters to the wise is sufficient.
- The bandwidth is always greener on the other side of the firewall.
- E-mail, Twitter, and Facebook are three best friends and three worst enemies.
- People who live in glass houses shouldn’t check their address on Google Street View.
- A fool and his passwords are soon parted.
- He’s 10 bits short of a byte.
Please comment with your suggestions!
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