Things that time forgot.

[jean]

The NBA

[Beef Oven!]

Esso Blue

Boom, boom, boom, boom - literally, sometimes!!

[Beef Oven!]

Green Shield Stamps

[Beef Oven!]

Bovril Crisps

[Beef Oven!]

Crackling (from the chip shop)

[teamsaint]

The NBA

Definitely NOT forgotten amongst booksellers, who still mourn its passing,and comment on it with startling frequency.

[teamsaint]

Second ,third and fourth replays in football cup ties.

[ahinton]

Definitely NOT forgotten amongst booksellers, who still mourn its passing,and comment on it with startling frequency.

But I think that jean means "forgotten by legislators"...

[Nick Armstrong]

But I think that jean means "orgotten by legislators"...

"o'ergotten"?

... or "misbegotten by legislators" perhaps

[ahinton]

"o'ergotten"?

... or "misbegotten by legislators" perhaps

That could so often be the case and indeed has so often been the case but, in this particular instance, we are in the realms not of the misbegotten but of the merely mistyped (and now duly corrected)!

[jean]

Nothing that appears on this thread can have been forgotten totally; someone needs to have remembered it, to post it here.

[vinteuil]

Nothing that appears on this thread can have been forgotten totally; someone needs to have remembered it, to post it here.

"These are deep waters, Watson, deep waters... "

But I'm not really clear quite what 'that time forgot' might mean.

Only a sentient being has the potential to 'forget' ; 'Time', whatever it is, is not a sentient being.

Is it just an orotund way of saying - "Things which some of us may have forgotten, things which have fallen out of use but which some of us remember" ?

[jean]

Have you never heard of metaphor?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have you never heard of metaphor?

What has communicating with flags got to do with it?

[vinteuil]

Have you never heard of metaphor?

... or perhaps even Personification - 'Old Father Time'

Is it a live metaphor? Not sure what it adds; in what way it enriches here.