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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Terence Aloysius 'Slip' Mahoney: Alright, you did your talk and now it's my turn. You're not holding me here as an accomplishment to the crime because I never accomplished anything in my life, so what's the charge? Fragrancy? No, couldn't be, cuz I ain't fragrant. And foithermore, as a taxpayer...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And the Nazis built the finest highway system in Europe. When you have slave labor, costs go way down.
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    "One for you nineteen for me ..."
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Fragmentation Of History

    The very same. He is also depicted on an equestrian statue in the center of the park directly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. I recently read a book titled "The Bank Wars" which recounts the battle between Jackson on the supporters of re-chartering the Second Bank of the United...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Have I mentioned "verify"? If so, please forgive the repetition. Any time you call the customer service organ of some outfit you do business with, the people answering the phone invariably ask you to "verify" some information about yourself. It's as if there is exactly one customer service...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Tony, if you drive an F-350 or a Prius, you've already made a proclamation of your identity. No stickers necessary. Now, I would get a chuckle if I saw one of those "My other car is a ..." bumper sticker on the back of a Prius if it said "My other car is an F-350" or vice versa.
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You too!? How about the new "umm..", "like"?
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Metric system, feh! It's so, French. Decimals are fine with arithmetic, but get yourself a pile of some commodity and divide it into ten equal parts. I'll wait.... Now instead, divide it in two. Now that wasn't hard, was it? Now divide one of those halves in two, again, again. What you now have...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Looking For A Good Vintage Style Khaki or Cargo? PIR's are back!

    Does "Lightly updated" refer to the lowered waist?
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    More likely, he can't bill your insurance for an over-the-phone refill call.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    No worse than CNN or MSNBC, just a difference in what gets each outlet excited. A hundred years ago, newspapers had axes to grind. Now that dead-tree media is vanishing, the same impulses have migrated to bit media. People who are morally certain that their opinions and interpretations are...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, not missed by Fox News, anyway.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Today in History

    I think the governing law says that a sitting President can't be indicted on criminal charges, and can only answer to the Congress. The House of Representatives (generally more hot-headed than the Senate) can impeach (indict) while the Senate acts as the court, trying the President on the...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Furriners" made its way across the Atlantic. You will find it very common amongst Appalachian folk. For an exaggerated taste of Appalachian English, I direct you to "Sergeant York", starring Gary Cooper as Alvin York.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ALDI has recently opened stores in the Washington, D.C. region. I went to one, but saw no reason to go again.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Shoe Shine

    Thanks. It's really a small scuff. I'll try the edge dressing suggestion and if that doesn't work. I'll take it to the shoe repairman.
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Shoe Shine

    I have both brown and black edge dressing. I'll try a dab before taking it to the shoe repairman. Thanks.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Shoe Shine

    Thanks. I have a first-rate shoe repairman in town. He's done lots of re-soling and re-heeling for me. I'll look in on him next week.
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Shoe Shine

    I got a small scuff on one of my new Alden boots yesterday. It's deeply annoying. The leather isn't scratched, but the dye was completely removed. Shoe polish doesn't cover it. Do I need to buy shoe dye to restore this or is there some other technique?
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Three words: bovine spongiform encephalopathy

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