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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Wow! I didn't know that cell carriers charged for long distance. None I have ever used did. Is it a different regulatory regime in Canada that permits/requires this, or do you have the wrong carrier?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Pipe Tobacco Are You Smoking Today ?

    I got two Savinelli Autographs on eBay last week. Absolutely cherry condition for estate pipes, smoked previously, but the only noticeable difference between NOS and these is that they have already been broken in. I filled one with Rattray's Marlin Flake (dark Virginia and Perique), a type I...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember there being a "notions" counter at my home town G.C. Murphy's Five and Ten Cent store, but I don't think that anyone ever found a "Million Dollar Baby" there.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Dry Goods" as in "Dry Goods store". I get that these were not groceries, but what exactly are dry goods? What would you buy in a dry goods store that you wouldn't find in a hardware store? I suppose you could get paint and kerosene in a hardware store, but it seems that pretty much everything...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    OH! There's a new gimmick that makes me laugh. I have received several pieces of mail with the return address of "The Main Office". What a hoot! I wonder if they A/B tested mail from The Main Office with mail from A Branch Office? I'm sure there are people in the left tail of the smarts...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I really appreciate the junk mail that comes with no return address. It's a dead giveaway. It never makes it from the mail box to the house. It goes right into the recycling bin before I get there. I suppose the senders think that it's kind of a mystery and that I'll be tempted to open it so see...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I must have the magic configuration. I never see pop-up ads here.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Old sayings, which make no sense?

    I don't have any evidence, but I always (well, if I ever took the time) thought of the guns on sailing man 'o war ships. The guns were mounted on wheeled carriages. Ropes on pulleys pulled by sailors moved them into the openings in the hull through which the cannon were fired. After firing, the...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Old sayings, which make no sense?

    Ah, yes, the "Heckawi" tribe. I think the joke originally has the first syllable as a different word, one not used in polite company. I've long had the view that humor comes in two flavors, one like you describe, when you know what's going to happen, but it still breaks you up when you see it...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So, to explain Larry the Cable Guy to a German, Larry is an American comedian. He does "stand-up" before large audiences. His act is to portray an Ozark hillbilly redneck, unsophisticated, uneducated. He appears on stage in a plaid work shirt with the sleeves cut off at the shoulder, old blue...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes, in spades. I've never met the woman, so I can't speak with any degree of authority, but is the stereotype of an insecure, narcissistic actress so far removed from that drama?
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Sounds like there's a "Larry the Cable Guy" joke in there somewhere. (apologies to those who don't like in the U.S. The reference will be lost on you.)
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There are all kinds of technologies to hide the identity of the user. Collectively it's known as "the Dark Web". I've never looked, but what I know of it is there is all sorts of scary and disgusting stuff to be found there.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Perhaps their mothers have told them that it is polite to do this?
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Here's what I've said about the clothes when asked why I trouble to dress the way I do. "When I walk up to a glass door or past a plate glass window, I want to like what I see looking back." If others notice it and like it, so much the better, but the style is there to satisfy my own tastes and...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have been working remotely for just about a year now. As a card-carrying introvert, let me say that I LOVE IT! My commute is now fourteen steps down to the basement and across about another fifteen steps to my desk. I do not look forward to returning to the office. Maybe mutant corona viruses...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I have listened to a recorded book version of this, and the performer was spot on with the speech patterns and accent that I imagine Mr. Reilly has.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I take a walk every day for an hour or so. I always listen to an audio book while walking. Now that I am rapidly approaching three score and ten, I find that listening is much easier than looking. I still read books, but not so much as when I was young. I do find that when the audio book...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This brought to mind something I remember as a boy in Pennsylvania. The Commonwealth (note, not State) of Pennsylvania had established a Milk Marketing Board which set minimum retail prices for fresh milk. I remember thinking (however briefly) how odd that such a thing should exist. Later I...

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