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  1. tonyb

    Old motorbikes - a huge comeback??

    And … I wouldn’t mind having a ’60s-vintage Honda Dream, the kind the Shriners motorcycle drill teams used when those bikes were new. It’s doubtful I’ll ever actually buy one, though. Too expensive for what would amount to little more than a toy, seeing how I wouldn’t wish to risk it and my own...
  2. tonyb

    Old motorbikes - a huge comeback??

    To echo others … Attribute it in part to middle-aged and older people (men, mostly) looking to recapture a piece of their youth. I do it myself, although not with cars anymore (too costly) nor motorcycles (too dangerous), but with household furnishings and such, so I have some sense of the...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Corned beef. It’s real tasty, but it seems half of it gets stuck between my teeth.
  4. tonyb

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

    Tourists who think themselves something other than that get on my nerves. No, Ms. Recent Graduate, visiting some exotic land for a few weeks or months while eschewing the hotels and the standard tourist destinations in favor of hanging with the locals doesn’t make you any less a tourist. What...
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    how far does a person need to travel to be considered a "Tourist" ?

    Can’t say that I often crossed the border during the 46 years I lived in Seattle and environs, but on that handful of occasions I did, I knew I wasn’t a local. That international border makes a real difference. San Francisco felt more like home to me than Vancouver. I’d imagine that British...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    So I suppose I should be happy I don’t know?
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I truly do wish I knew what you’re talking about.
  9. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    A phone conversation with an old friend yesterday turned, as it often does, to our various ailments. We agreed that in light of the ultimate fact of life, it’s not so unfortunate to have these complaints. A person either grows old or he doesn’t. And growing old inevitably involves ailments.
  10. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    ^^^^^ I suspected that the Lafayette Coke sign had seen updates over its life. The “It’s the Real Thing” slogan came later than the late 1940s/early ’50s speculated date of the sign. The slogan, according to an apparently reliable source, dates from 1969.
  11. tonyb

    Ghost signs

  13. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    Lafayette, Colorado The sign survives, but the building it was painted on is gone.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ll spare you and myself the blow-by-blow of all I went through to get a properly functioning over-the-range microwave delivered and installed, except to say it involved hours on the phone, numerous emails and text messages, and a total of four visits from the installer, for which I had to hold...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Does the FedEx online tracking show when and where along its journey the package was scanned in and out, as does USPS tracking? My guess is that it got misplaced in a facility for a couple days. FedEx contracts out much of its work. Even vehicles in FedEx livery aren’t necessarily FedEx...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I ordered an inexpensive piece of kitchenware from Amazon a few days ago and it arrived in less than 24 hours. This evening I ordered two replacement heads (25 bucks, gulp) for our $200 toothbrush. It’s s’posed to arrive tomorrow, a Sunday, and I believe it will. Yes, I know there are things...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back when I still hosted booze-ups it was my practice to start ’em all with the better stuff until they had a couple-three (which pretty well emptied the higher-priced bottles) and then switch to the rock gut, because at that point it didn’t really matter much anyway. Another economizing...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I wasn’t a licorice fan until I was introduced to the higher-end stuff, which, if it existed in my working-class world more distantly than just a few years ago, I wasn’t aware of it. Licorice was, you know, Red Vines and Twizzlers and the like. Panda brand is a whole ’nother animal.
  20. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    I take a not-entirely unfavorable view of such things. Get a district too spiffed-up and the riffraff ain’t far behind, as I’m confident you’ve witnessed in your little burg.
  21. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I wasn’t historically sympathetic to such perspectives, but my, um, perspective has changed. I suspect that these re-education indoctrinations so many are subjected to these days serve mostly to alienate those who ought be natural allies. It’s insulting, really. It ain’t the way to win...
  23. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    Chevy marketed the Nova under a different name in Spanish-speaking markets, for good reason.
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