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  1. tonyb

    Missing Members

    More than a few have succumbed to illnesses (as the no-longer-young Linda Ronstadt not so long ago observed, sooner or later something’s gonna get ya), and some are currently living with life-threatening conditions. As Linda Ronstadt not so long ago observed … Part of what keeps me coming back...
  2. tonyb

    Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!

    Did you put the power cord on it? Was the clock once hard-wired? I ask in part because I see school clocks and the like often available on the cheap, but they don’t have wall plugs, so I’m left to wonder if converting them would be easily executed.
  3. tonyb

    Missing Members

    Perhaps that day is today(?) I dunno if that’s so, but isn’t it that most wouldn’t do whatever it might take to terminate their membership, but rather just stop checking in? So that they’d still be on the rolls? I’m happy for those with a financial interest that we are now subjected to...
  4. tonyb

    Missing Members

    And … I look back to the beginnings of this thread, to the summer of ’06, and see how many of the then-active participants are no longer contributing.
  5. tonyb

    Missing Members

    I can’t say I’d paid much attention to population levels around here, until you mentioned it, although I do occasionally note how few of the people (and robots) checking in here are actually members. Must be Google searches and the like that has them stopping by. No? In this and other threads...
  7. tonyb

    Taking inventory after the Holiday festivities.......

    Bumper sticker on a cooler door at the Green Lantern Tavern … “24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?”
  8. tonyb

    Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!

    Happen to have a few old clocks myself. Nothing valuable (they made ’em by the millions, after all), but still worth preserving. I rarely use the wind-up ones, on account of the ticking being so loud. These were the kinds of clocks we used in my childhood, next to the beds, so I suppose I just...
  9. tonyb

    Missing Members

    That FL has survived in the age of Facebook and other social media is itself worthy of study. Facebook in particular seems bent on crushing all others.
  10. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    About the same. He was allegedly 2 or 3 when we got him from the shelter, but he might have been more like 4 or 5. That was in spring of 2012.
  11. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    How old was she?
  13. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Fruit crate labels can be had cheap. Not all of them, of course, but most aren’t particularly scarce. This one allegedly dates c.1940. I also happen to have a few vintage fruit crates, which are cool in their own way and still ephemeral by definition (they weren’t really made to last), but not...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    None I can think of.
  15. tonyb

    Loungers' Pets

    This is the late Sandy. The second photo was taken on his last day, about a month ago. Sandy had numerous health problems — orthopedic, neurological, renal — and had been in decline for well over a year. But he wasn’t in pain, and I figured that for as long as his vote would be to stick...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Both, I suspect. At least it’s commonplace among us of a certain seniority.
  17. tonyb

    do you have names for meals? like a Nickname for special dishes?

    Just a little off topic … Several years ago Calvin Trillin wrote a piece on dining on rat in China. Quite fresh, the rat was. It had been very much alive a matter of minutes before appearing prepared on his plate.
  19. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … the news is full of mentions of the death of a fellow named Bob Saget, and you have no idea who he was.
  20. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Trite but true observation … People want different things at different points in their lives. And biology has much to do with that. (Do we really have to be told why younger, more reproductively viable people fall “in love” so much more readily than we desiccated oldsters do?) I married at...
  21. tonyb

    do you have names for meals? like a Nickname for special dishes?

    Sounds a lot like what was called “goulash” in my childhood home, a concoction which scarcely resembled anything a Hungarian would so call. It was elbow macaroni with ground beef and onion and maybe diced green bell peppers and various spices in a tomato sauce. It was quick and easy and along...
  22. tonyb

    Taking inventory after the Holiday festivities.......

    And … Some might at least moderate their drinking. And if they do die drunk, they’ll croak in clean clothes and in a bed. Beats the gutter.
  23. tonyb

    Taking inventory after the Holiday festivities.......

    In Seattle there were (are?) what’s called Alcohol Impact Areas. The stores in the districts where the chronic street inebriates (as they were called) hung out (and passed out) were prohibited from selling the low-cost and/or relatively high alcohol content products, such as fortified wine and...

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