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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The past Monday I stopped by a local appliance store in search of an over-the-range microwave to replace the one that went belly-up a couple days earlier. They had one in inventory in the right color and at a good price, so I bought it and paid for delivery and installation, which was...
  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    A couple days ago I barbecued country style “ribs” (they aren’t really ribs) on the Weber kettle — coals on one side of the lower grate, drip pan on the other. Put the meat on the upper grate, put the lid on the grill, slid down the vents about half way and set a timer for an hour. Came back...
  3. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Exceptionally gifted bunch you got there.
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Equally true of most fictional accounts of the past. And of too many of my and many others’ recollections of their own personal histories. Wasn’t so wonderful, wasn’t so woeful, either.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Happens to me all the tome.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    But where ya gonna stuff those dollar bills?
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ It’s a technique we all pretty much had to master back then. It was fairly easy once the how and why of it was explained. I found it easier to come to a dead stop at the traffic light or stop sign before downshifting into first.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We’ve discussed here before the opposite phenomenon — how the younger car thieves would be at a loss in a car with a foot-operated starter and a manual transmission with a steering-column mounted gear shifter.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Besides my having far better uses for my limited resources, that is why I hesitate to buy a “classic” car. Cars that actually get used as cars (you know, driven to the supermarket and to and from the workplace and/or school and all that) can’t help but show signs of that use.
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ... you remember when ox tails were poor people fare.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Gotta major in something, and communications is easier than physics. That’s a part of what had me in the communications department.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ In my thrift store/garage sale forays out Seattle way a couple of decades back it was common to come across tote bags and polo shirts and travel mugs and the like bearing the logos of tech startups that never got past the startup phase. I suspect it was Microsoft millionaires (you...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Okay, how ’bout this ... In my online noodling this morning, searching for the name of a pitchwoman in a TV commercial, I learned that the marketing departments would have us call the hawkers “brand ambassadors.”
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I don’t know that it’s “objective morality” so much as normative values. A society without a common sense of proper behavior among its individual members is no kind of society at all. There will always be those who don’t subscribe, for better (reformers) or for worse (murderers, thieves...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m not without my own superstitions, but I recognize them for what they are. They get me through the day, sometimes, when I’m at a loss for anything else at least equally effective. And I’m quite sentimental — downright sappy, on occasion. I can be moved to tears by truly mundane things. As I...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ When all else fails, see the chaplain. I had a minor (kinda) surgery (successful, thanks for asking) back in January at a church-affiliated hospital. The artwork (to be generous) in the photo below was on the wall of the surgery check-in room. I appreciate the sentiment, but Jesus, Jesus...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ You gonna make me look that up?
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The dewy-eyed bride is a Presbyterian, a deacon, even. She gets something out of it she gets nowhere else. She has friends there, and most of them I’ve met seem decent enough. I believe she almost believes in a risen Christ, but I more believe she wishes to believe. After all, this is 2021, and...
  22. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    It was called a jumpoline before your mother got on it.
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And then there are those whose social/political perspectives may as well be religions — not subject to reason. Far too often far too many people with whom I generally agree get so ********* self-righteous and cop such a superior tone that I am tempted to slap them. Their inflated sense of...

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