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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hey you, guy in the Subaru sedan with the custom wheels ahead of me at the In-N-Out Burger drive-thru … I can only imagine what that mom with a minivan full of kids is left to explain about your “I Heart Sushi” with the recumbent stick figures decal on your back window. It’s not that I take...
  2. tonyb

    Old gas stations

  3. tonyb

    Old gas stations

  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    More changing definitions I don’t like but I suppose I’ll just have accept because the newer definitions are becoming the norm … “Reticent” used pretty much synonymously with “reluctant.” It used to mean “quiet” or “hesitant to speak.” And it still means that, but the newer usage is now more...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I might have better said “grammars (plural) aren’t static.” For there isn’t just one grammar.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s logical under the still commonly accepted definition, of course. I avoid such (mis)usage myself, for that very reason. But that’s beside my point, which is that the language changes. Grammar isn’t static, nor are definitions. In popular usage, “unique” is coming to mean something other...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My peeve is speakers who use hackneyed phrases incorrectly and mindlessly, such that what they say is in many cases just the opposite of what they mean. Example: “l could care less!”
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve become more accepting of “incorrect” grammar the older I get. Popular usage trumps, eventually, and what once might have marked a person a poorly educated rube is now acceptable even in academic writing. Friends with Piled Higher and Deepers use the language in ways that might have had...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I got shuffled around so much in my childhood that the schools I attended had either already gotten to teaching cursive or hadn’t gotten around to it yet. This lousy penmanship has been of little negative consequence in my life. It’s among the “old school” disciplines that have fallen by the...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This thread sparked memories of a product advertised in the late 1960s called FDS, an abbreviation of Feminine Deodorant Spray. I can’t recall any mention of it since, so I looked it up and, yup, it’s still being made. You can get it online and at finer retailers everywhere. So I suppose...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s how it appears to me.
  14. tonyb

    Old gas stations

  15. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    Somewhere in Oklahoma. 1940, according to the site I lifted this from. This image is so rich it’s almost suspicious, such that I looked into Pop Kola, which I couldn’t recall knowing of before. Yup, Pop Kola was for real, but not in my world.
  16. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    I wasn’t referring to anything you posted.
  17. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Now Secret brand is marketing — to women exclusively, by the looks it — what they call “Whole Body” deodorant. The TV spots are, if anything, even more, um, explicit(?), than the Lume commercials. They’re kinda amusing, in their way, and I can’t imagine that not being by design.
  20. tonyb

    Old gas stations

  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I occasionally stop by a forum devoted to home stereo equipment — vintage stuff, primarily, which is where my limited interest in such things lies. One frequent participant makes a habit of railing against what he sees as excessive prices some people are paying for what he characterizes as...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Three doors up is a house with two cars and a hi-cube van in the driveway that haven’t moved in what must be at least a year. The front “lawn” got weed-whacked just once last year. But they’re quiet and there isn’t traffic going in and out at all hours and I’ve yet to hear gunshots...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’d imagine that’s contrary to local code. A neighbor here blows autumn leaves into the street a day ahead of the street sweeper’s scheduled visits. It’s also about the only time none of his three cars is parked on the street. I’m not one to drop a dime, though. A person could find a code...

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