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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I was in a Latin class at the local community college some years back. The topic was the number and person of pronouns. One of my classmates was of Southern birth. He explained that the second person singular was "y'all" while the plural was "all y'all". Where I grew up in southwestern...
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Does your name date you?

    Well, some names disappear, on purpose. For 25 snark points, does anyone know the surname on Ralph Lauren's birth certificate?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Happened....

    From beerinfo.com "Interestingly enough, fellow Patriot Paul Revere's portrait appears on the front of each bottle, allegedly due to Samuel Adams' notoriously bad looks. " There appears to be some dispute over whose picture is actually on the label. I do think I recall at some point there was...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    I hesitate to start a post with this, but here goes ... When I was a boy ... my father would take my brother and me to the house of an old friend who lived just a short walk from my grandmother's (father's mother) house where the friend, Mike Buonarroti (no, not that Mike Buonarroti, would cut...
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    If I recall correctly, you are from the other side of the pond. According to Dictionary.com, this word is of American origin from the mid-nineteenth century, so it's understandable why you may not have heard it before. One mid-nineteenth century Americanism you may know is "sockdologizing old...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My grandparents were fond of "conniption". Does anyone still suffer these?
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Does your name date you?

    My name is the same as my father's and his was the same as his father's, but neither of them was called by the names on their birth certificates. My grandfather was called "Harry" (even on his second grade report card) and was born the same year as the better-known U.S. President who succeeded...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Does your name date you?

    I've been married for nearly 36 years. Nobody dates me.
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    The Post Office in my hometown was built in 1942. It has this bas relief inside that I recall vividly from my boyhood. I suppose that it was made toward the tail end of the WPA. I enclose a photo because I think it will warm the cockles of Lizzie's heart.
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Steering back to the subject, dope fiend -> drug addict -> person with substance abuse problem -> person with chemical dependency
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The first anti-smoking "commercial" that I recall was one featuring William Tallman, best known as Perry Mason's hapless opponent, D.A. Hamilton Burger. It appeared in 1968, and made an indelible impression on me.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That's a complicated notion. The Federal government has an agency called the Federal Highway Administration, created in 1958 under the Eisenhower administration. It manages the Federal Highway Trust, a stream of revenue created by a tax on motor fuels (18.4 cents per gallon on gasoline and 24.4...
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's the "tragedy of the commons" for the 21st Century. It's not only a matter of cui bono, but more importantly, cui emi.
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    More on trolleys. A neighboring jurisdiction, Arlington County, VA, was hell-bent on building a streetcar line along a busy traffic corridor. I expect it was being pushed by the same sort of people whom Lizzie loves to hate. It would have snarled traffic during construction and been a real...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember trolleys in downtown Pittsburgh when I was a boy. My mother and father would take me and my brother downtown shortly before Christmas to see Santa Claus. I vividly remember the sparks the overhead lines threw off when the poles powering the trolley cars would pass under a join in the...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's a sign of mis-spent youth, I know that it was Eva, not Zsa Zsa.
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    People under forty will know the (writer holds nose) Tom Cruise movies, but not the 1960's original TV series. You know you're getting old when that pup Cruise starts to look old. Lalo Schifrin, by the way.
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    "It's people like that who make you realize how little you've accomplished. It is a sobering thought, for example, that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years." -- Tom Lehrer
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    I always liked that one. Dum, dum, dum, dum , dum, dum, doo doo doo, doo doo doo ...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    You know you are getting old when:

    When women frankly admire your outfit, secure in the knowledge that you are not going to take the compliment as an invitation to seriously flirt. About two weeks ago, one went so far as to say that she sees me walking in the hall of my office building, or on the streets surrounding it, and...

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