It's gross. "That is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

I've only seen it in pop culture, and that pop culture (The Little Rascals) was 40 years old when I saw it.

And ergo have no concept of what a "about a quarter past five" means. They do know what 5:14:31 means, though. 

Random thought: when did the term "co-worker" emerge as a replacement for "a guy/ woman/ somebody I work with"? I think I first started hearing it around 2006 or so.

Also, I first heard someone introduce a statement using the word "So" at about the same time. It was a speaker at a conference who was asked a question about when some custom or other began and he answered, "So, in about the late 16th century..." It hot me as being off-putting in addition to being an example of poor grammar. He used it over and over again, too. I attributed it to his being a young guy in his early 20s from California.

Soon enough, though, I began to hear that construction everywhere. It seems to have replaced "Well" at the beginning of sentences.

So that's enough from me.

Let's be careful before we have to demonstrate how to use on old washing machine and mangle, or something.

The lack of coherent sentences started earlier than that, in my estimation. I spent 4 years trying to decipher message traffic from ships that had been written by college graduates, yet couldn't make a clear statement. Up through the corporate world, it was the same. After a certain point, schools give up on teaching writing and most people learn to write for a specific audience and a specific style, depending on the professional environment.

After 20 years as a bookseller, I saw a ton of paid authors who thought florid or elaborate prose was the same as great writing. More often than not, the more stylistic or academic the tone, the weaker the theme or argument.

I always heard references to castor and cod liver oil and never understood why people were taking it or running in fear of it, other than it sounded nasty, until my dad told me it was a laxative.

I'd probably take a long time to figure out how to use a punch card system on an old computer, despite years of using various sophistications of computers. I'm aware of the theory, but never learned how to work with those systems, since micro-processors had come along, while I was in school and our first school computers were Apple II Cs, which we got in the 1983-84 school year.

I never did learn to use a slide rule, as pocket calculators arrived by the time I was doing higher math, in school. I do recall either a math or science textbook having a section on using one; but we never actually learned to use one, as everyone had a new Texas Instruments calculator. Heck, I still have the Sharp solar pocket calculator I bought to use in college, in 1984.

Used one for art and sign painting Hal.

driver1980, it’s a proportion wheel, used to determine the percentage by which a photo or piece of art must be reduced or increased to fit into a space on a layout. I used it when laying out newspaper pages, for example.