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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Can’t have that. It’s been a few decades now, but back when smoking was more socially acceptable many smokers (me among them, I’m a little embarrassed to say) thought that casually discarded cigarette butts somehow weren’t litter. Those orange sparks from butts flicked out car windows at night...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Last year it snowed here on May 21, a heavy, wet snow that broke tree branches up and down the block. Rule of thumb around here is you can’t rely on it being frost-free until May 15. Some years you can’t trust the thumb.
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My dear old ma, who was married at 17 and widowed with three babies at 21, once told me that she had neither time for nor interest in popular entertainment when she was dealing with all of that. Those were the early years of rock ’n’ roll, which may as well have been Chinese opera as far as she...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ But then, maybe the ad is targeted not at the oldtimers themselves so much as their offspring, who are the ones left to arrange for care. And maybe the marketing people believe the offspring would rather hold a less than realistic vision of who their parents were before they created this...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A trivial matter that doesn’t annoy so much as amuse is a TV ad for a home care agency with an actor playing a pleasant old fellow in a wheelchair and an actress playing a pleasant care provider. She’s kinda pretty. Background music sounds like the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Those of us with more...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I NEVER respond to surveys from healthcare providers — physicians’ practices, hospitals, etc. If I ever had to sue their asses for something that comes up (or doesn’t) some months after I might have completed that survey, I can easily imagine what their shysters would do with any favorable feedback.
  8. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    That young man in the doughboy uniform is my grandfather’s uncle Charlie, to whom I alluded much earlier in this thread. The infant is my grandfather himself. Both photos came my way via my mother, who said I am the only one she is confident wouldn’t just give them away or sell them to an...
  9. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    Just read a piece that appeared in Architectural Digest late last year claiming that “traditional” interiors are making a comeback — think chintz, formal balance, skirted chairs, and (gasp!) antiques. The pendulum does swing, I guess, but it rarely settles in the same spot it ever before...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    At the Post Office this afternoon ...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ I fear we’ll be seeing much more of this sort of thing.
  13. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

  14. tonyb

    Electrolux vacuum

    I would guess so, then. And I’d also guess that t’ain’t a one been built around there in decades. (Hope I’m mistaken about that.) I’m not given to conspiratorial explanations, but it doesn’t take an outright conspiracy for a sort of tacit conspiracy to result in, say, the collapse of the...
  15. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    What was it about Arctic Circle burgers? They had a, um, unusual flavor that I can’t quite pinpoint. There was an Arctic Circle across from my junior high school, back in 1923, ’24. Can’t recall when I last saw one.
  16. tonyb

    Electrolux vacuum

    It’s a regional thing, I believe, this difference in calling ’em “vacuums” or “sweepers.” Ohioans of my acquaintance call the contraptions “sweepers,” or “electric sweepers.” It might be that those Ohioans aren’t representative of Ohioans in general in this regard. I wouldn’t know.
  17. tonyb

    Electrolux vacuum

    I’ll get one when the right deal comes along. It’s not that I have an urgent need, and my guess is that prices are likelier to dip than rise in the short to medium term. As in the case of countless other groovy old artifacts, I kick myself for NOT buying one back when the thrift stores were...
  19. tonyb

    Electrolux vacuum

    How about those sled runners the canister rests on? Any real danger of them scratching oak floors? Or vinyl plank? I’m more concerned about the former, as the latter is in the kitchen only, and I don’t expect to be using the vacuum in there with any frequency, although there is an Afghani rug...
  20. tonyb

    Electrolux vacuum

    ^^^^^ Thanks. I’m currently using a Bissell upright, a bagless wonder. It works okay, but I don’t expect it to last more than a few years, seeing how it’s made mostly of cheap plastic. I’ve been in a couple of pricy vacuum cleaner retail stores in recent years and I believe the salespeople who...
  21. tonyb

    Electrolux vacuum

    Anyone here (59Lark, maybe?) have an informed opinion on the practicality of a vintage Electrolux canister vacuum for regular domestic use in 2020? I’m considering purchasing one of those bullet-shaped deco/moderne jobs, because the look real cool and because, being canister-type vacuums...
  22. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    ^^^^ As I do.
  23. tonyb

    The "Annoying Phrase" Thread

    ^^^^^ And? I am concerning myself with, you know, semantics, what words mean. “Dead” is hyperbolic in the extreme.

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