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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Like this?
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Can you provide me with the link to the Lounge's "No politics" policy?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A customer asked me yesterday if I had lived in the Washington (D.C.) area all my life. I replied, "No, only for the past 46 years or so." We laughed. Washington old timers will remember Scholl's Colonial Cafeteria: It was a family owned and operated business with several locations in downtown...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They were "insulae" (islands). They were homes for the poorest residents, and the higher floors were the least desirable (no elevators to the penthouse in Rome).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insula_(building)
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've given this a great deal of thought over the years. I have concluded that "truth" is a belief composed of facts, beliefs, biases, falsehoods, etc. I distinguish between "facts" and "truth" by defining the former as being narrowly-defined and evidence based. So, for example, if I say that...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    That was the one! It was built in the 1950's as a open-to-the-sky shopping mall. When it was built, it was waaaay out there in suburban Virginia. At some point in the 1960's it was roofed over into what we think of as a shopping mall. At some point after I left, with the collapse of W&L and...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I think that was one I used to manage. Is there a Sears across the road, formerly a Saks Fifth Avenue?
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    "L'enfer c'est les autres." -- J-P. S.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And many others do complicate, such as those with more than two genders (maybe they were ahead of the times, what with Chaz Bono and Caitlyn Jenner). An excellent writer and authority on language is John McWhorter. I recommend any of his books, in printed or in audio form. One thing I think I...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The interjection "like" drives me nuts. I could be sitting in a restaurant, and at the next table, some young people having a conversation will say something along these lines (n.b. I avoided using "like" there.) "Like, what are we going to do, like, tonight?" "Like, well, we could, like go to...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    How about one of your folk heroes (NOT!) Henry Clay Frick of the Homestead Steel Strike: Alexander Berkman plotted to murder Frick. On July 23, 1892 Berkman, armed with a revolver and a sharpened steel file, entered Frick's office in downtown Pittsburgh.[4] Frick, realizing what was happening...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    How many suits do you own?

    Summer or Winter?
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Now that's not something I've thought of in fifty years! As a boy, my mother bought a number of Tom Swift, Jr. books for me. I tore through them and wanted more. I remember lining them up on one shelf of a bookcase my father built of pine and stained to a mahogany color.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    The poster was referring to the large "Jolly Roger" on the hat, revived in the 1930's in smaller form as the cap badge of the S.S.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Here's another 18th Century Prussian item, resurrected by the Third Reich:
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Things I'll miss when retired

    In a period stretching over 2013 and 2014, I was out of work for 15 months. My 60th birthday was in the middle of this. Someone once asked, "Are you retired?" I said, "No, just out of work." I confess that I had no trouble filling my days with interesting things to do, but I did miss the money...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Uh, guilty, Your Honor.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Blob's Park. A girlfriend once took me there in my single days, back in the 1970's.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Nice" also carries the meaning of narrow or slight to the point of being inconsequential, as in "a nice distinction", but you rarely even read it nowadays, much less hear it.
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    When I was a small boy (late '50s to early 60's), we lived across the street from the steel mill where my father worked as a machinist. Mounted on the top of a nearby steel mill building was one of those sirens. It was used mostly to summon the volunteer fire fighters to the station. But every...
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