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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I find myself telling the frontline workers that I in no way blame them for management’s policies and poor decisions, along with my hopes for them to pass up the chain my frustrations with the company’s ways of doing business.
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ve never attempted a count, but I’m guessing my hoard is approaching that number. It’s at least halfway there, I’d wager. I have friends in the used book business. A woman I was dating going back nearly 40 years once had four used bookstores. (She’s down to one now, last I looked, after the...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I just love you, man. I can’t recall ever before reading such a poetically roundabout expression of disdain for litter.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My bookcases are groaning as well. Books are stacked sideways atop books shelved the “proper” way. And that’s not counting the scores of coffee table books and the like occupying various horizontal surfaces around here. Unlikely as it is that I will ever again crack open most of those volumes...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You know you’re losing yet another usage battle when you read in the Atlantic (yes, the Atlantic, fer cryin’ out loud!) “jive” where it should be “jibe,” meaning “consistent with” or “in agreement.”
  7. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ What? No kitchen sink?
  8. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I hear that those Swiss Army knives come with a blade just for this purpose.
  9. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Maybe it is, but goes by other names? My cursory examination suggests it’s a type of what we over in this part of the world call Swiss cheese.
  10. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ Emmentaler. I learn something new every day.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I recall seeing those things at a since-defunct supermarket on First Hill in Seattle. The store was maybe a third of a mile from a large apartment building housing mostly lower-income oldsters. The little carts were collapsible wire things. Good design, it would seem — lightweight, and large...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Can’t say I recall that ever catching on in a big way around these parts.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Did it make much of an impression on you at the time?
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Facebook reminded of this post from six years ago. If Tom is still with us, he’d be 100 going on 101.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ As I’ve noted many times before, popular usage trumps, no matter the conventions of the King’s English.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Oh dear …
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Arthur Fonzarelli, on hearing a nose-in-the-air type say “how gauche,” replied, “Not bad, how gauche it with you?”
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^ I wish I knew who to credit with observing that what people often get at Starbucks isn’t coffee, it’s dessert.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^ I find myself patronizing Starbucks because when on the road with a person who needs assistance using the comfort facilities, Starbucks is about as reliable as it gets — single user rooms, lockable, clean, large enough for a motorized wheelchair, its user, and her assistant. So in...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^^ I once had to show a person who insisted otherwise that “accouterment” is a perfectly acceptable variant in some parts of the English-speaking world. I acknowledged, though, that I had to look it up myself the first time I noticed it in print.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ As am I. My wife will hear my screams from another room in the house and ask me what happened. I typically say something along the lines of “That effing idiot celebrity newscaster just said … “

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