34 Things That Were Once Super Popular But Got Exterminated So Hard, You Barely Hear About Them

“A ‘Turnspit Dog’ was the kitchen appliance for any self-respecting English manor. It was a little dog bred to run in a wheel that was rigged up to an apparatus that turned your meat while cooking on a spit.”

"Damn, this brought back a memory. My grandparents had a phone nook, complete with the address books and pencils. Only trouble was that it was in the hallway, so my half-deaf grandfather could never hear the phone ringing from another room. But they thought the notion of moving the phone to the living room, where they spent most of their time, was absurd and absolutely refused to do it because 'the phone only goes in the phone nook.'"

"They used to be so numerous that in 1878 in Petoskey, Michigan, there was a five-month-long hunt where about 50,000 were killed a day. The decline was so fast that by the early 1900s, seeing them in the wild was rare, and the species was extinct by 1918."

"When I took a trip to Egypt years ago, that's what people there did. We stayed with friends, had dinner (which was always late), took a nap, then lounged and socialized until like 4 a.m. Then we would go back to sleep."

"Maybe I'm just lazy, but the mere idea of taking a break from sleeping is wild to me."

"Call me, beep me, if you wanna reach me."

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