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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And even if that person were blessed with a highly extraordinary intellect, invoking it would cast little if any light on the matter at hand. “Okay, fella, so you’d have us know you’re really, really smart. But telling us that doesn’t resolve anything.”
  2. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It’s getting on toward the end of October and as I rake up leaves I am again reminded that the pleasant aroma of burning leaves is very much a thing of the past in my world. It’s to the better that burning leaves (and burning in general) is banned by local ordinance. If not for it, any number...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’d take it a step further and propose that intelligence itself is anything but static, or even measurable in any real sense, for that matter.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Kids sense on a primal level how vulnerable they are and how dependent they are on the adults in their lives for their very survival. And their world is the only world they know. How things are in that world is how the world is. Too many of us resist outgrowing such perspectives.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I’ve heard it called “presentism,” which I suppose is close enough. I had an online exchange with a fellow regarding the Ken Burns documentary “The American Buffalo,” which aired in two two-hour installments this past Monday and Tuesday. The near extinction of a species that once...
  7. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Does it?
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, the people of the “Greatest Generation” I knew well enough to say I knew, rarely pined for how things were when they were young. Perhaps misty-eyed nostalgia is a luxury reserved for those who have never known true hardship.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In recent months I’ve heard on a few occasions young people bemoaning the “gerontocracy.” They got a point, to a point. Our elected leaders, especially at the federal level, do indeed skew considerably more senior than the population overall. No need to rehash the embarrassing “senior moments”...
  10. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

  11. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

  13. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    Are you sure that isn’t Seattle?
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ Every third word out of the Old Man’s mouth was a swear word. But I knew I wasn’t allowed to swear myself. In later years it occurred to me that I never heard him utter the “F” word. So even among well practiced potty mouths there are taboo words.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There are online marketplaces that cater to people with more money to throw around than most all of us mere mortals ever will. Chairish is one; 1stDibs is another. I don’t object to the existence of such “resources.” High-end interior decorators spending their well-heeled clients’ money have no...
  16. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Far less hazardous that way. Still, though, I kinda regret not applying such applause to a notably twerpy character or two I’ve had the misfortune of encountering. But I take some comfort in knowing it is likely that some younger person with less impulse control will tend to that matter for me.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Among the great benefits of living in one house for many years is having on hand all those little odds and ends which you’ve acquired over those years. Baling wire, picture wire, speaker wire, electrical wire, wire nuts, power strips, wall anchors, paint, paint brushes, paint rollers, paint...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Does this mean I should throw out that houseplant insecticide that has worked so well?
  20. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    My wife complains that my salads are too dry. She tells me that needs addressing.
  21. tonyb

    Show Us Your Handwriting - Vintage Penmanship!

    ^^^^^ That’s great. My handwriting never was pretty and it’s only gotten less so with age. But at least it’s still legible, what with its straightforward lack of ornament. But just as working with film cameras had most people much more deliberate in their picture-taking, so does longhand in...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Those who refuse to acknowledge the distinction between “can’t” and “won’t.” You know, when a person in a decision-making position says “I can’t do that” when that person clearly can but chooses not to. I may have committed the same sin myself a time or two. Many have. But failing to...
  23. tonyb

    Help in dating old family picture

    ^^^^^^ Among the many and varied graphical elements adorning the walls (and ceilings, and floors) here are two oval sepia-tone photos — one of my maternal grandfather as a (roughly) two-year-old, and the other his uncle Charlie, in his doughboy uniform. These sorts of photos (we’ve all seen...

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