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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Apropos of the VAT vs. "plus tax" controversy mentioned in this video, having lived in the U.S. all my life, I find the VAT concept creepy. But the real point I'd like to raise is "plus S&H" a.k.a. "plus P&H". Goods offered in TV commercials are usually priced at some dollar amount and 99 cents...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Bachelor Living in the Golden Era

    Thanks for the earworm, Tony.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Bachelor Living in the Golden Era

    Along Lizzie's lines, it would make a difference depending on where (rural area, small town, big city), family situation (stable family or not, wealthy, middle class, blue collar), whether or not the man had been forced to leave his home town to find work during the Great Depression, what kind...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was wondering how that pun would translate into German.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana." - Julius (Groucho) Marx
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Everything everywhere boils down to who's paying for it. It's just that in some places and circumstances it's more transparent than others.
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    This brought to mind a scene from the wickedly funny Austrailan TV series, Rake. In one episode the lead character, Cleaver Greene, is involved in an election for the parliament when the issue of LGBTQ rights arises. After his campaign manager offers advice on how to deal with the issue, Greene...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    See the link under the "movie" in my post. It was a documentary and the link will take you to a page describing it.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    This is not a phrase used in the U.S. The first time I head it, it was used by Idi Amin in a movie released in the 1970's. He was holding a cabinet meeting and hectoring his ministers about the need for some group (I can't recall who) to "pull their socks up". Being totally unfamiliar with the...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yesterday as I was struggling with some broken software I figured out a work-around and got the job done. Later when describing my struggle to my wife I used a simile comparing it to slapping the side of a television set which wasn't working right. This sometimes re-seated some of the vacuum...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    Another gift from my mailbox. Today I got a 5 x 9 inch post card advertising a great "lifestyle" in a "continuing care community" a few hours drive from here. The "babes" pictured in the photograph must have been close to 20 years older than me. The "makes me feel old" part was that it wasn't...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That's why TV remote controls (with mute button) were invented.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I think I remember Jack Webb pronounce it in the French way in a Dragnet radio program. I bought all of the Dragnet radio shows for some bargain price on Audible a few years back and listened to every one. I even started the "Terms Which Have Disappeared" thread based on something I heard in one...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Help ID’ing a car, please

    1954 Ford customline dashboard view. The knobby things below the speedo look like grandpa's. The '53 dash looks quite different.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    VERY wide leather belt and loose dungarees on male teen in 1930s?

    When I look at the "very wide leather belt" I see what appear to be three buttons aligned vertically. There's no buckle, which I would expect on a leather belt. It looks more like a fabric belt, maybe a part of the waist of the pants. It could be that the pants weren't mass produced, but maybe...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Depression-era phrases were a staple of my father (born 1915). When I'd ask for something he thought was foolish or too expensive he'd say, "I'd love to, son, but I'm going on relief next week."
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Be careful of the miniatures. They are about 1/2 inch across (1.27 centimeters for those of you who bought the metric system hook, line, and sinker). They come in bags of various weights. You can open a bag and the next thing you know, it's empty and you just added thousands of calories to your...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    Accents are like, uh, something else, everyone's got one. When I first left my native western Pennsylvania many decades ago, I had never considered that I had an accent. It was just these other people from other places who had them. Silly, isn't it? Even now that I have a different accent (I...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hmmm, "Churchill Derangement Syndrome"? Some politicians seem to induce irrationality, don't they?
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As I recall it, speculation among Churchill's detractors had it that Bracken was Churchill's ba***rd.

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