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  1. tonyb

    Most overrated movies?

    ^^^^^ Yeah, I know of that film but I’ve avoided it, mostly out of fear that it would disappoint. Your take on it has me reconsidering. I’ll search my pricy cable service to see if it’s available “free” (hah!) to me. I’m a great fan of Capote’s work but certainly not of his character. He might...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I spent much (most, probably) of my adult life with less than a thousand dollars at my immediate disposal. It surprises me not a bit when I read that these days a large percentage of households would be stretched to meet an unexpected expense of $400 or more. K-shaped recovery, indeed.
  3. tonyb

    Most overrated movies?

    I gotta part company with you on this one, but I appreciate that your emotional reaction to the film didn’t blind you to the “excellent” “visuals and acting.” “Capote,” the 2005 Philip Seymour Hoffman vehicle that covers much of the same territory, is more than a bit depressing as well, but I...
  4. tonyb

    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    https://roadtrippers.com/magazine/lincoln-motor-court/
  5. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    ^^^^ As with all name-calling (as we all have done), the utterance tells more about the speaker than the person to whom to insult is aimed. This is not to say, though, that the recipient is uninjured by it. Sticks and stones aside, words can indeed hurt. As my lovely missus and I remind each...
  7. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I’m confident I’m in plentiful company in having had my entire being likened to my genitalia, on more occasions than I could possibly recall. But woe be to the man who so likens a woman. For some reason, or maybe several reasons, the latter is more cutting. Sure seems to be, anyway. Might...
  8. tonyb

    Let’s see your vintage calendars!

    Seeing how it’s January 1, I figure it’s a good time to bump this thread and ask what vintage calendars are you displaying this year. I have four 1965 calendars, one hanging next to the wall phone in the kitchen, one quite large one in Spanish on the office/library wall, one I’m mailing to a...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ Gotta wonder if the perception of Americans over your way is built on images from popular entertainments (aka the Fantasy Factory, aka Hollywood) and the real live American tourists they may encounter, neither of which is an accurate reflection of the American population at large.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I wish I could honestly say it hasn’t rubbed off on me, child of the scruffier classes as I am. But I must acknowledge that missing teeth, broken teeth, badly stained teeth, have me making negative assumptions. And I have a partial denture myself, filling the spaces left open by missing...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Lotsa people, I’d guess. I’m not among them, but if the product wasn’t selling, the retailers wouldn’t devote the shelf space to it. I have no direct experience with it, but there are procedures available in dental clinics that hold the promise of leaving teeth a color close to that of freshly...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Unnaturally white teeth.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ i might prefer certain colors and patterns of undies over others, but what I really want is elastic waistbands that don’t give up the ghost long before the fabric has had a life.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I bought a Krups electric waffle iron in a thrift store several years ago. I soon learned why its previous owner donated the thing to the charity: it can be a pain in the rump to clean, seeing how if too much batter is put in it the batter gets all over the parts that can’t be immersed, every...
  16. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    I happen to have that alarm clock. They made ‘em by the millions, I’m guessing.
  17. tonyb

    Show off your Ebay finds and purchases

  19. tonyb

    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    Worth your while ... https://sca-roadside.org/exposing-the-motel-menace/
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Smartphones are changing the world, for better and for worse, and in ways large and larger. I do most of my grocery shopping on my phone. I can’t recall the last time I’ve been asked for driving directions, and vice-versa. I send photos of works in progress from my phone to the customers’...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My point precisely. As we’ve discussed before, most of that “hip,” cutting-edge stuff we — the first post-War generation — thought was remaking the world in our image was actually the work of people our grandparents’ ages. I’ve long been receptive to arguments that there is an innate human...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ For a few years the missus and I lived in an apartment complex a short distance from a state college, so our neighbors there were mostly students. At the end of each academic term the dumpsters were filled with perfectly serviceable furniture and housewares. Yet I’m confident most of the...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A friend who lives on Whidbey Island recently gave away a Toyota Tercel with 290K on it. Still runs well and has only superficial body damage. Too good to crush. We can assume that its scrap value will be no less a year or three from now as it is today. And in the meanwhile it’s getting people...
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