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  1. tonyb

    Old sayings, which make no sense?

    As was I. Standard parental repertoire, it must’ve been.
  2. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I find period newspapers and magazines and the like more telling of the daily lives of the people of that era than most accounts produced in more recent years. Historical perspective can be of great value, and this is not an argument to the contrary. Sometimes things are seen more clearly when...
  3. tonyb

    Old sayings, which make no sense?

    Most entries in this thread make perfect sense once the context is established. Analogy and euphemism is what we have here, mostly. And that's fine, and fun. No need to limit the discussion to those "old sayings which make no sense." As to euphemisms for bodily functions, I've generally found...
  4. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ Which is not to say that artifacts aren’t reflective of the cultures that produced them. Of course they are. How could they not be? But the ways in which they are reflective is a matter of interpretation. I collect artifacts myself, some of it “Golden Era,” some older, some more recent...
  5. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ Which is why I never took seriously the notion that preserving (and reproducing) cultural artifacts ever did much to preserve the culture itself, as was once suggested by certain powers around here. It’s not a thing to be put in a jar and preserved indefinitely. I’ll always remember the...
  7. tonyb

    Feet Up! The Work Boot Thread

    I’m a tad late to this party, seeing how it got started more than 15 years ago. I kinda regretted buying the Iron Rangers a couple-three years ago. They weren’t uncomfortable to the point of being unwearable, but you wouldn’t wanna wear ’em all day. But I was (and am) a Red Wing loyalist. I...
  8. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ He’s among several who kinda drifted away. We can hope that was only on account of changing interests. If I were to hazard a guess, it would be that the membership here skews somewhat more senior than the population overall.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Your mutt looks more than a little like our Sandy, who is seen here in a recent haircut. He looks quite different a few months post-visits to the groomer.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    We’ve paid good money for giving a young woman the tremendous burden of raiding our fridge and watching our TV (you wouldn’t believe the cable bill) and hanging out with our pets — two smallish dogs and a cat. And seeing to it that the furry friends got their food and water and medications and...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ We got coyotes and foxes here, and this isn’t the countryside. But there’s a several hundred acre state park less than a mile from here, so there ya go. One of our dogs was quite reluctant to go outside for awhile. I wouldn’t be surprised if he spied a wild animal with better teeth than his.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Gotta hold the audience. A narrative of any sort — comic, dramatic, educational, whatever — without tension is a narrative that gets ignored. People need to anticipate. I’ve heard some comics offer that it’s all about surprise. And yes, there’s a reason they put laugh tracks on TV situation...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Dogs are almost entirely transparent, although I am not necessarily convinced that I’m projecting when I suspect them of human-like motivations and behaviors. I’ve seen enough instances of what appear to be deceptive behaviors in dogs for me to dismiss the idea that they know how to be...
  15. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    As my previous entries in this thread might indicate, coffee has been a constant my life for almost my entire life (to date) and that I am pretty well versed in the matter. But I’m no connoisseur, really. I can tell arabica from robusta, and a lighter roast from a darker one, and I appreciate...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And we inevitably get into an examination of what is innate and what is learned. My understanding is that newborns’ smiles are mostly reflexive, and not an indication that they find something humorous. But in a matter of weeks they smile at the presence of others and certainly appear to think...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I of course have no way of knowing what’s at the heart of your boss’s phony laugh, but in the case of most fake laughers I’ve known it seems to be an attempt at lightheartedness, a projection of friendliness and good humor. So it appears that in the fake laugher’s mind he’s just being a good...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Forced laughter. I find it grating and even a little insulting. Do you really think that phony laugh is believable? Is it the hat that makes me look stupid?
  20. tonyb

    Where is the Spring????

    ^^^^^ Similar “spring” weather here. It was in the upper 70s Fahrenheit Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. It snowed yesterday afternoon. Upper 60s today.
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    If I had a financial interest in this operation, I’d have been looking to running ads long ago. Gotta wonder how it determines which ads to show me. I have yet to see a one for a product of any interest to me.
  22. tonyb

    Draft card

    ^^^^^ I never got the sense from my dear old ma or from my grandfather or any others of Mom’s birth family that he got any grief for not serving in the military. Although I did pick up a whiff of — I dunno — embarrassment? regret? on his part. Neither of those words quite describes it. He never...
  23. tonyb

    Draft card

    Yeah, I miswrote — put a “m” where I shoulda put a “p.”

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