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  1. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “Bubbles in his blood,” which means about the same thing as “ants in his pants,” which was/is as often as not abbreviated to “antsy,” meaning nervous, anxious, transparently ill at ease.
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    Vintage neon signs

    Excellent description
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    ^^^^^^^ Which is not to say that initials next to one’s name assure that financial reward. But it remains that to even be considered for most well-paying positions the degrees are required. Most of us who have walked in both worlds — among the “professionals” and the working stiffs — can attest...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    We have to a significant degree made post-secondary academic credentials the ticket to a financially rewarding career. This is much to the benefit of the academic institutions.
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    Old gas stations

    Yup. The pair I alluded to were the same model. I showed them to a friend who owned (and still owns) a ’66 Marathon, to satisfy his curiosity, mostly. He determined, as any sane person would, that those two airline limos were so far gone as to be good for parts only, and not many of them. He’d...
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    Old gas stations

    Remember airline limousines? They were usually sedans or station wagons stretched to have four doors on each side — a fairly common sight in the early 1960s. The last ones I recall seeing were a pair of Checkers left to rust away in a lot in Olympia, Washington. That was going on 10 years ago now.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Yup. If there’s a dishonest buck to be made …
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    You make it too easy.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “For the birds,” meaning of little practical value or credibility. I’ve read that the phrase originated with U.S. servicemen during WWII, in reference to certain birds who pecked for seeds and such in horse droppings. As with most such etymologies, I take it with a grain of salt, wouldn’t take...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A friend used to say “If rabbits packed pistols dogs wouldn’t mess” (or a word to that effect) “with ’em.”
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    At the Kirkland Museum of Fine and Decorative Arts in downtown Denver, which is something of a Mecca for fans of industrial design. Lots of furniture and housewares and such. And several radios.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You know those paid death notices (commonly but inaccurately called “obituaries”) that show up in your local newspaper and online? Some are actually pretty good, especially the self-deprecating ones penned by the decedents in the days and weeks prior to their deaths. And then there are the...
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    Last night I watched Episode 2 of the Ken Burns “Country Music” documentary, which covered at some length the role radio played in popularizing the genre during the Depression, when money was tight and record sales went through the floor. But listening to the “barn dance” shows on numerous...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    What too many companies fail to recognize is that customers with legitimate beefs are doing them a favor by voicing those complaints. Those customers are giving the companies a chance to win back their trust and continue doing business with them. Say what you will about the evil Amazon, their...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    And I never suggested you did. You assume waaay too much. I wasn’t responding directly to what you wrote (others have weighed in here as well, you know), nor did I disagree with it. And then, as is your wont, you take it as another opportunity to blow your own horn.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Anyone who thinks “the trades” don’t involve brains has never attempted that sort of work himself.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    More losing usage battles … It’s “home in” on a target, be that target literal or figurative, like, say, a homing pigeon would do, not “hone in.” And “jibe,” meaning “to be in agreement,” is not the same thing as “jive.” Alas, it seems that more often than not both are used improperly. As I...
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    Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!

    It is indeed nice looking, and worth preserving for that reason alone. Am I too project its no longer working as typical of Soviet-era consumer goods? Overheard a couple weeks ago … Q: What doesn’t fit in your a** and doesn’t buzz? A: A Soviet-made a** buzzer.
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    And, judging by the looks of it, not a single credit hour of English composition.
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    My Vintage Radio Collection

    ^^^^^ No, I have yet to see the documentary. But I’m familiar with story. It’s akin to those people working in clouds of asbestos dust in the shipyards.

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