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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the U.S., we know it as "Murphy's Law". Doubtless the name goes back to a time when a wave of Irish immigrants arrived on our shores as the result of the Potato Famine. From an outfit calling itself "The Constitutional Rights Foundation", "Between 1845 and 1855 more than 1.5 million adults...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Computer monitor recommendation

    I've been happy with several AOC (no, not the high-profile freshman member of the House of Representatives) monitors I have bought. I use them for office work and on-line learning and recently bought two 27-inch monitors for roughly $225.00 each at MicroCenter.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Today at the Whole Paycheck I picked a checkout lane with one customer in the lane ahead of me. Mom and Dad wearing face masks pushing one of those little shopping carts, it looked ideal. Then up comes Buddy with face mask with another item for the cart. I think you should do your shopping...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Overlook the "no-lapels" and take note of the short, tight-fitting trousers and the length of the jacket hem, you'll see the current offerings in men's ready-to-wear suits.
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Mid-forties, high school, no, he's far too young to have worn a suit in that cut when he was in high school. The last time suits cut like that were fashionable, that teacher's father was in high school...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Any time I see someone in a suit like that "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" leaps immediately to mind.
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, if you were born in the mid 19th Century, you might be the first. On the other hand ...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Shouldn't that be in quotes?
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So, they had leisure suits in the DDR in the 70's?
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Well, in case no one else has mentioned this, TV station sign offs. When I was young enough to stay up that late, TV stations would cease operations about 2:00 or 3:00 am. You'd see an announcement concerning who owned the broadcast license and then a waving Old Glory while the "The...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I recommend John McWhorter, either in written form or one of his The Great Courses titles. He is very knowledgeable and has an engaging style.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "Awe" is an emotion you would experience in the presence of the Almighty, not on tasting a good hamburger. Clearly this was a routine abuse of hyperbole, a low-rent rhetorical technique.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can't say that I've ever been on a beach where the people bathed in the buff, but I have seen some photos, and I get the impression that too many of the denizens look like the fat guy in a G-string mowing his lawn that appeared on one of these pages not too long ago.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When was the last time you saw "My Cousin Vinny"?
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I don't read "The New Yorker", but every now and then I see one of the cartoons. One that stuck in my mind shows a waiter and a customer seated at at table. The customer says, "Oh, bring me anything, so long as it's artisanal."
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the US, we have ANSI (the American National Standards Institute). From WikiPedia: "The American National Standards Institute is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Wouldn't it be better as "Our records show ..."? That's clear and direct, without the pomposity of "indicate".
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    Here's an annoying phrase that grinds me whenever I hear someone who's trying to sound more educated, smarter, or more sophisticated than an objective judgement would suggest. (Drum roll, please) "indicate"! From Latin indicatus, past participle of indicāre (“to point out, indicate”), from in...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Your favorite movie quotes

    From the original Ghostbusters, Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) to Dana (Sigourney Weaver) on hearing her story about the refrigerator, "You hardly ever see behavior like that in a major appliance."
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I read a news story with yesterday's breakfast concerning the Superintendent of the Chicago police being found asleep at the wheel of his car, parked near a stop sign. He has called for an investigation of himself. Now, the thing that bugs me about this story is the following sentence made by...

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