On Twitter, @mollybackes notes that in Wisconsin, a Tyme machine dispenses cash, not time travel. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Tyme Travel”
We were talking earlier about the Twitter hashtag wordswhereyouare, which is part of the Oxford English Dictionary’s effort to try to find local words.
Right. It’s a big capture technique that put the world to work to come up with this language that might not be in the dictionary yet.
Yeah. And a great example of that is time machines, T-Y-M-E.
Oh, yes.
Right?
Yeah, we have listeners right now going, I know that one. Everybody in Wisconsin.
Right? Because… time machine is what their brand name for ATM is in that part of the country.
Right. And people from Wisconsin move to a different part of the world and they say, well, that’s what somebody said on Twitter.
I went to college out of state and was very confused when I said, I have to stop at the time machine before we go to the bar. And people laughed like I was making a joke.
I just needed cash.
I love it, though. Wouldn’t it be cool if we actually had time machines on the corner, like next to every bank?
Right. I’d pay cash for that.
