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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ New appliances are gee-whiz in some ways. They’re much more features-loaded than the stuff made way back when. And I’ve yet to hear anyone with an induction cooktop offer anything but positive commentary about it. Still, a 20-year lifespan for a major appliance is hardly a selling point...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You’ve touched upon a matter we’ve discussed here before: consumer goods that used to be durable seem anything but these days. I’d guess that most of us here are old enough to have firsthand recollections of fix-it shops, places where you could take your toaster or stand mixer or whatever when...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Most of the municipal fireworks shows around here are cancelled on account of the dry conditions. Fireworks of any sort are banned in this city. But you’d never know it judging from what you see and hear throughout this blessed burg.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s all my poor dog can do to survive mid June through mid July, what with all the amateur pyrotechnicians living around here. The vet gave us a scrip for diazepam, which is better than nothing, I suppose, but the little guy still trembles and climbs all over me with every boom. Laws regarding...
  7. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Come to think of it, a yardstick might have useful application in the undertaking business. Two lengths make six feet.
  8. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Thanks. It had me chuckling. I was about done with junking that day, fully resigned to heading home empty handed, when I stumbled upon it.
  9. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I like old yardsticks just because they’re old yardsticks, but I especially like this one. I thought for a minute that it might be a joke. But no, I looked into the history of Davenport, Nebraska, a settlement that at its population peak numbered but a few hundred souls, and learned that there...
  10. tonyb

    Old Cars

    There is a gaudiness to many cars of the tail fin era, the Mopars especially, which goes some way toward explaining why they fell out of fashion pretty darned quickly and sold for peanuts once they got to be less than ten years old. The few survivors bring big money these days because, 1.), that...
  11. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    The less the cardiologists would approve, the tastier it is.
  13. tonyb

    Genuine Imitation Naugahyde

    Social sciences
  14. tonyb

    Genuine Imitation Naugahyde

    Classic rock
  15. tonyb

    Genuine Imitation Naugahyde

    Amtrak schedule
  16. tonyb

    Genuine Imitation Naugahyde

    Co-dependency support group
  17. tonyb

    Old Cars

    You couldn’t give away a ’59 Chevy in ’69. In the past few years they’ve attained something akin to cult status. Good (and better) examples are fetching big money these days. If you find yourself with 28 minutes to kill, you might want to check out “The American Look,” a 1958 Jam Handy film...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    “Homeless advocate,” a phrase I heard far too frequently when I was covering the controversies surrounding the itinerant “tent city” in Seattle 20-some years ago. Is the advocate homeless? And for what is s/he advocating? Homelessness?
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, it annoys me, too. But I long ago accepted that the term is so often paired with “rather” or “somewhat” that those of us who still subscribe to the old meaning are in the minority. Popular usage trumps, alas,
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I stopped by an Apple Store in a hoity-toity mall yesterday, looking to buy an Apple Watch. The young fellow who checked me in said a sales person would see me in five or 10 minutes. After 20 minutes I told him I couldn’t wait any longer and split. I ordered one online later in the day. It...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Over this way we’ve witnessed many a supermarket product made incrementally smaller but priced about the same as the larger product it supplanted. The size difference is often small enough as to go unnoticed by many. Still, though, this is the land of the supersized. A bacon...
  23. tonyb

    When Travel was Romantic

    ^^^^^ This too shall pass. Those of us of a certain age might remember long road trips with friends, all of whom were expected to pitch in for gas. And maybe push the car to compression start it when the old battery went dead. And napping as best you could on a hot summer afternoon in the back...
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