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  1. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    To answer your question, I believe it’s of Black American origin, although it is quite commonly used among Americans in general in informal contexts. I suspect it’s a variation on “from the word go,” which was frequently used by my Southern stepfather and his people. I use both phrases myself...
  2. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    "You got this." Those three words are about the last thing I wish to hear from a layperson should I be diagnosed with a condition that could turn deadly. If that layperson feels a need to offer what s/he thinks would be comforting words, just stick with "thoughts and prayers," please. That's...
  3. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    My objection to “This isn’t my first rodeo,” aside from what I’m already offered on the matter (the puffed-up macho affectation and the appeal to a trumped-up authority) is that it is lazy and unimaginative. I suppose equally unimaginative are phrases such as “We’ve been down this road before”...
  4. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    “This isn’t my first rodeo.” The voice of authority! A man of a certain age who has learned a thing or two so listen to the old gasbag! And “rodeo”? Is that to evoke a certain Western ruggedness? Like the Marlboro man? Or John Wayne? A manly man? One not to be trifled with?
  5. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    I’d bet you’ll be stuck hearing this phrase for the remainder. If it’s the phenomenon itself that irritates more than the phrase, well, okay, that’s another matter. But the phrase pretty well describes an ad-hoc sort of enterprise we’ve been seeing more of in recent years. Some 20,000 square...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Hiring Hall boss becomes Personnel Office Manager becomes Director of the Department of Human Resources becomes Chief Talent Officer.
  8. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I’ve used that phrase myself, but, come to think of it, probably not in at least a couple of decades.
  9. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    Dang, Bob, it looks like you live in ghost sign heaven. Or just down the road from it.
  10. tonyb

    Account suspended at Club Obi Wan - Indygear forum?

    Everything dies eventually. This is not to recommend smoking, say, or buying a time share.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The ad itself makes the prospect more appealing.
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It’s absurd, but at least it’s deliberately absurd. (It is deliberate, ain’t it?) Insurance company ads don’t annoy me so much as ads for prescription drugs, especially the ones that use little snippets of pop tunes from decades past.
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I would welcome a review from one who goes into it remaining unsold on the product. A rug merchant of my acquaintance advises against the things, leastwise for households with tribal rugs on the floors. They’re hell on the fringes, he says. And vice-versa, I would assume. I fear the dogs...
  15. tonyb

    WWII Casket Flag dimensions

    Standard size for a U.S. flag to be draped over a casket is now 5’ by 9.5’, or 60” by 114”. Are WWII casket flags of the same size? And, is (or was) it that such flags had no grommets, seeing how they were meant to be properly folded and presented to the deceased’s nearest survivor? According...
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  16. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … thoughts of taking up skiing again (living as I do an easy drive from world class slopes) are quickly and easily dismissed.
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Or at least thinking about making every trip up and down the basement steps count for something.
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Over on this side of the pond first came the Mercedes-Benz Sprinter. Now those front-wheel-drive, large flat floor commercial vans are everywhere. Ford makes ’em, as does Mopar, and Nissan. And yes, the default color is white. But that was true of previous generations of commercial vans...
  20. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

    I’d tell a joke about trickle-down economics, but 90 percent of people wouldn’t get it.
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    “The older I get, the better I was.” — Van Dyke Parks
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ... you learn that a guy you’ve known since your teen years is quite a ways down the Alzheimer’s road. And the news saddens but doesn’t really surprise you.
  23. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    ^^^^ That last graf has me thinking that the blatantly racist Bull Durham print ads I came across in an antique emporium may well have been fakes. I can’t say with certainty what prices they were asking (it’s been several years), but I’m thinking it was something like 35 bucks, which seemed...

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