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  1. Hercule

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    Or that famous "vaporub"
  2. Hercule

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    As is regret. Afterall, as the Athenian Poet noted, "even God cannot change the past."
  3. Hercule

    What advice would you give to your younger selves?

    "Don't do it!" Sage advice on so many levels for so many situations. Oh what could have been...
  4. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes you are correct. I mistakenly conflated the two (equally insufferable - though admittedly iconic - as they are in my opinion).
  5. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    INDEED!!! That would be the Patrick Stewart effect. As for the other, I blame that moviefone / trailer voice over guy.
  7. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Annoyance du jour: the prevalence of breathy speaking style among radio announcers. Why must they always sound like they're out of breathe? Is it supposed to impart greater intensity or credibility? Credibility? Ha! Don't ya know that's what British or Australian accents are for these days?!
  8. Hercule

    Doing Dishes

    We just bought a house (4 months go) that has a dish washer and a single sink. It has been the hardest thing to get used to. It seems that there are always dirty dishes in the sink waiting to go in the washer. I still prefer washing in one sink, rinsing in another and drying in a rack.
  9. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hardly! Real progress will have been made when you can put metal in the microwave.
  10. Hercule

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    Hence the sentence "I suppose the closest I come are the various forums I participate in (wife refers to them as my "faux friends), and I'm content with that."
  11. Hercule

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    Wife and I don't do social media, and when asked why I tend to answer "because I'm not an 8th grade girl." I suppose the closest I come are the various forums I participate in (wife refers to them as my "faux friends), and I'm content with that. I do miss the days before we had cell phones...
  13. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's over there - the one occupied by the pimped out cherry red pickup truck with 8" lifts and the handicapped tag hanging from the mirror.
  14. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think more of us than would readily admit have been that boat at one time or another, though a hammer might have been a bit of overkill. But then again, impatience is the mother of stupidity.
  15. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    WHAAAT???!!! You mean you DON'T hack away at it with a steak knife???!!!!!
  16. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Designer ice, the latest rage. My wife wants one too. Remember in the mid 80s when there was a craze for "imported" arctic ice? As it turns out that fad was manufactured by the uncle of a college classmate. I actually had some at the time. It had a slight effervescence about it.
  17. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think I would tend to agree. Back in Connecticut when I was growing up there was a building/development boom that started in the mid 70s. Area farms had died back during the 60s and it seems that they cashed in the land about 10-15 years later. One could could perhaps see a societal/market...
  19. Hercule

    The eternal question

    No, actually that didn't even come to mind. If we do see somebody it's a shot of somebody riding in a helicopter talking about rush hour traffic, and they all seem to have Pat for a first name.
  20. Hercule

    The eternal question

    Well, maybe not eternal, but nagging (or is it quizzical?) nonetheless. Why does it seem that all traffic reporters on TV and radio are all named Pat?
  21. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Oh I'm sure the market has always been in the driver's seat to varying degrees, but I get your point. When do you think that evolution began? While it was surely different for different spheres of our society (this topic has regarded academia), I would venture to guess that it pretty much...
  22. Hercule

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    College is damned expensive and, anymore, increasingly worthless, so attracting and maintaining enrollment is a very big concern for private institutions. Sadly it seems that many undergraduate programs today are essentially providing what the high school education of yesteryear already gave...
  23. Hercule

    You know you are getting old when:

    I know, right? I was taken aback the first time too. That was something my dad had done! So my response has typically been "if you think they need it." Recently I've been searching for a new barber (the latest, of about five, seems to be a keeper) and this last one didn't do my eyebrows and I...

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